Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 319

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SOUTH CAROLINA.) Chalmers, Lionel. An Account of the Weather and Diseases of South-Carolina. 2 folding tables. viii, 222; iv, 224 pages. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, lacking spine label, boards detached; foxing to a few leaves. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1776

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First edition in book form. Chalmers studied medicine in Scotland and came to Charleston in the 1730s. The city's historic Chalmers Street is named after him. Guerra, page 767; Howes C267 ("b"); Sabin 11772.