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The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. Text in English and Latin. Boston: Wells and Lilly, Dec. 1820. 8vo. Publisher’s plain boards, printed paper label on spine (boards detached, spine cracked and partially perished, binding worn and soiled, first few leaves and final few leaves loose, text toned, foxed, occasionally soiled and dampstained). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PHARMACOPEIA OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE AMERICA. “In the General Medical Convention, held in the Capitol at Washington, January, 1820- Resolved that Lyman Spalding, Thomas T. Hewson, Eli Ives, Elisha De Butts, Jacob Bigelow, Be constituted a Committed whose duty it shall be to prepare for the Press the National Pharmacopoeia agreed on this Convention - Samuel L. Mitchell, president” (p. 3 from this title). Sabin 61351; Garrison & Morton 1845.