Founding Father and first U.S. president (1789–1797)

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George Washington on his deathbed, 1799. Coloured engraving by J. Rodgers after Chapin, 1799.

George Washington's last birthday: Washington is shown preparing to escort Nelly Custis at her wedding on February 22 1799, as she descends a staircase at Mount Vernon, in her wedding gown. Photogravure after a painting by H. A. Ogden, 1899.

A battle between British forces and the Continental American army: a man on a horse carrying a cutlass (George Washington?) is surrounded by other men, some carrying standards. Pencil and ink wash by H. Brueckner, 1874.

George Washington on his deathbed. Coloured wood engraving.

Union Square, New York City: showing the George Washington statue (right). Photograph, ca. 1880.

Was George Washington really the father of our country? : a clinical geneticist looks at world history / Robert Marion.

Medical biographies : the ailments of thirty-three famous persons / by Philip Marshall Dale ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

George Washington. Steel engraving, 1881.

George Washington and the doctors : treating America's first superhero / J. Worth Estes.

Studies of nature (Volume 1).

[George Washington correspondence].

A catalogue of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenæum / compiled and annotated by Appleton P.C. Griffin ; with an appendix, The inventory of Washington's books drawn up by the appraisers of his estate; with notes in regard to the full titles of the several books and the later history and present ownership of those not in the Athenæum collection, by William Coolidge Lane.

The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse.

Studies of nature (Volume 3).

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Studies of nature (Volume 1).

[George Washington correspondence].

The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse.

Studies of nature (Volume 3).

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Studies of nature (Volume 1).

[George Washington correspondence].

The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse.

Studies of nature (Volume 3).

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