PAULLI, Simon (1603-80). [Commentarius de abusu tabaci. English] A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee and Chocolate ... the advantages and disadvantages attending the use of these commodities ... full and distinct directions laid down for knowing in what cases, and for what particular constitutions these substances are either beneficial or hurtful, the Chinese or Asiatic tea shewn to be the same with the European Chamelaeagnus or Myrtus Brabantica, translated by Dr. R. James, London: for T. Osborne, J. Hildyard at York, M. Bryson at Newcastle and J. Leake at Bath, 1746, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 folding engraved plates showing "Chinese utensils," with half title (tear to upper margin of half title, title torn with loss to three words, and repaired with missing characters supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile, C1 with repaired tear to inner margin, F1 holed with slight loss, plate II with piece torn from outer margin slightly affecting border), old vellum (soiled, spine label chipped). [Blake p. 340; Cagle 918; Knapp p. 195; Maclean, p. 111: "Dr. Robert James ... was a friend of Dr. Johnson, and a physician to King George III"; Vicaire 667]