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Paris: Chez Quillau, Esprit, et l'Auteur, 1773. First French edition of Franklin's complete works on electricity, based on the fourth and best British edition. Quarto, two volumes bound in one, contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin in his study and twelve full-page plates. In very good condition. Uncommon. The first volume is devoted entirely to electricity, with the addition of several pieces not included in any previous editions. The second volume contains other scientific writings, including works on meteors, his improvements on chimneys (the "Franklin stove"), sections on population increase, inoculation, music, the "magic circles," and other topics. This edition was translated by Jacques Barbeu Dubourg, a leading philosopher and one of Franklin's closest friends in France. This copy contains the portrait of Franklin not found in all copies. Scarce, and important for its various contents. FORD 315.
Oeuvres...traduites de l'Anglois sur la Quatrieme Édition. Par M. Barbeu Dubourg. Avec des Additions nouvelles by FRANKLIN, Benjamin
by FRANKLIN, Benjamin
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Oeuvres...traduites de l'Anglois sur la Quatrieme Édition. Par M. Barbeu Dubourg. Avec des Additions nouvelles
by FRANKLIN, Benjamin
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Engraved frontis. port. of Franklin & 12 engraved plates. 2 p.l., xxii, [2], 338 pp.; 2 p.l., xiii, [3], 318, [2] pp. Two vols. in one. Large 4to, cont. red morocco, spine richly gilt, green morocco lettering piece on spine, a.e.g. Paris: Quillau, Esprit, & l'Auteur, 1773. First collected edition in French of Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity; it is described by Printing and the Mind of Man as "the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America." This is the most complete early edition of Franklin's scientific writings in any language. Our edition is based on the fourth English edition of 1769 and includes correspondence between Dubourg and Franklin on such subjects as ventilation, the art of swimming, inoculation, acoustics, meteors, stoves, the cause of common colds, magnetism and its relations to electricity, and so on which had not previously been published. Fine copy. Bookplates of John Symmons, Edwin B. Holden, and Antoine Bordes.
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