Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker

"It is the extent of his pretensions to give to the public, a collection of classified and authenticated facts; most of which are at once new and indubitable. Some extracts are also reprinted from the works of distinguished men in relation to the cause or causes to which such facts are to be attributed. ... "--Introduction, p. 10. Signed: John H. Douglass, M.D. April 24, 1815 Second edition Dedicated to DeWitt Clinton Signatures: A-Z⁶ Error in pagination: p. 140-149 omitted Contents the same as those of the edition printed by Van Winkle and Wiley in 1815 Includes (p. 25-106): An arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium, a state which is intermediate between waking and sleeping / by Samuel L. Mitchill Errata at end Frontispiece portrait of Rachel Baker signed: Jarvis pt. T. Gimbrede sc Cover imprint: New-York: Printed for the proprietor, by Samuel Marks, 1815. For sale at the principal bookstores, and by the proprietor, H.T. Kiersted, no. 38 Hudson-Street, New-York "Books, recently published, and for sale by Van Winkle & Wiley, no. 3 Wall-Street"--cover p. [4] Film 633 reel 38 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 38, no. 661) Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints Shaw and Shoemaker NLM copy, bookplates of the Washington Library, "no. 116" Microfilm Will digitize Condition reviewed