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THBFRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Franklin on Electricity.
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LiveJul 30, 2025
Our Library of Curiosities auction features selections from the collection of John A Davidson Jr., a life long collector of rare books. John was extraordinarily interested in a wide array of subjects from the beginning of publishing through the twentieth century. Gray's Auctioneers info@graysauctioneers.com
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Franklin on Electricity.
London: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Frances Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXIX [1769].
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 and illustrated with copper plates.
Includes Preface to the First edition (p. [iii]). Includes errata and advertisement "concerning this fourth edition," p. [p. 18].
[2], iv, [2], 496, [18] p., VII leaves of plates (partly folded); ill. (engravings, woodcuts). Includes index, and errata, and advertisement.
Printed pagination 416 and 417; 465 to 472 repeated.
Bound in leather, gilt borders, raised bands, decorative gilt panels, red leather spine label, gilt spine title, speckled edges.
H: 9 W: 7 in.
With J Hearry…(?) in ink on t.p.Dimension
Height: 9.00Width: 7.00Condition
Good, front cover detached edges and corners rubbed, rear spine cracked, some offsetting of plates, half title and rear free endpaper detached.
- Provenance
From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum.
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