Experiments And Observations On Electricity Made At Philadelphia In America To Which Are Added

by Benjamin Franklin

$35,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

The fourth edition, being the first collected edition and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin, and other collaborators. Franklin: 7 engraved plates 2 folding . 2 ,iv, 2 ,496 i.e. 510, accounting for mispagination, plus four extra pages where the page numbers have been duplicated, i.e. page numbers 112-113 and 416-417 appear twice ,

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