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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Notes on end papers. Tanning.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Anthology of writing and artistic work. Cloth binding, 303 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Very good, no dustjacket. Gentleman, David; Felmingham, Michael; Gibbings, Robert; Kneale, Bryan; Lancaster, Osbert; Lowry, L. S.; Nash, John; Patten, Bryan; Ramsay, Eileen; Searle, Ronald; Smith, Edwin (illustrator). …

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., vol. 55, pt. 4. 4to. 250, [2] pp. Figs. Original brown printed wrappers; bumped, call no. painted-over. Bookplate, embossed stamp on title, both formerly from the Los Angeles County Medical Library. Good. David Ramsay was a pioneering American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolutionary War. During the Revolution he served in the South Carolina legislature until he was captured by the British. After his release, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782â"1783 and again in 1785â"1786. Afterwards, he served in the state House and Senate until retiring from public service. In 1803, Ramsay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He was murdered in 1815 by a mentally ill man whom Ramsay had examined as a physician. He was the first American politician to be assassinated.…