Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume ...

Author
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newberry, MDCCLXIX.
Description
2 p.l., iv, 496 (i.e. 508), [16] p. VII pl. (partly fold.) diagrs. 23 cm.

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Former owner
Notes
  • Paging irregular: nos. 111-112, 416-417 and 465-472 repeated.
  • Fourth edition, of the Experiments and observations. cf. Advertisement, following t.p.
  • Princeton copy 2 Ex copy 2. Imperfect: pl.I, errata, advertisement, and p.135-end wanting.
  • Princeton copy 2 Ex copy 2, in ms. on title page "This book bought by me at Auction of Susan Bacon [sp.?] has been worth to me at least ten dollars though it cost together with others ten cents."
Provenance
  • Princeton copy 2 Ex copy 2 signed "Mrs Jane Mecom, Her Book".
  • Princeton copy 3 Ex copy 3: Presentation copy to Lord Le Despenser with inscription by the author. In solander box.
Source acquisition
Princeton copy 3 Ex copy 3: Presented in memory of De Witt Millhauser by Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cahn, Jr., Class of 1933.
LCCN
04006385 //r952
OCLC
3013931
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