Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The history of the American revolution / by David Ramsay, M.D. ; in two volumes, volume I[-II].
Call Number
1080.746
99.21
2003-0081N
Lapidus 5.722
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctx31qv156
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by R. Aitken & Son, 1789.
Language
English
Date Created
1789
Extent
2 v. ([6] 359, [1]; [6], 360) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 3 On front free endpaper in stencil: R W Nesbitt [in mss ink] Esq. Philad[elphi]a.
Princeton copy 3 On front pastedown: bookplate of John Camp Wiillams.
Princeton copy 5 Lapidus copy: inscribed on title page of vol. 1 'John J. Murray, 1793.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 5 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Evans 22090
ESTC W31464
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Vol. 1: vi, 359, [1] p.; v. 2: vi, 360 p.
Princeton copy 4 WHS shelf-list has note: WTS, H. Inv. 89.
Princeton copy 4 WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.
Princeton copy 3 Presented in memory of De Witt Millhauser by Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cahn, Jr., Class of 1933.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 In contemporary boards with original spine label.
Princeton copy 2 In contemporary boards with original spine label.
Princeton copy 3 In contemporary sheep, bound in Philadelphia.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783
Inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
741

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aeaa0d81-d741-4b2d-aad0-3fa168ed5c29/manifest