Thermometrical Navigation Being A Series Of Experiments And Observations Tending To Prove That
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xii, 98, 4 pp. Lacking the folding map. 8vo. Disbound, top of title clipped and repaired. ESTC W7573; Evans 36722; Rink 3893; Sabin 104300. Item #374441 Williams was the great-nephew of Benjamin Franklin. He served as Franklin's secretary during the latter's residence in France as U.S. ambassador, and for part of that time was a U.S. commercial agent. While in France he also studied military science, especially fortification. He returned to
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