Œuvres de M. Franklin, Docteur ès Loix ... Traduites de l'Anglois sur la Quatrieme Édition, Par M. Barbeu Dubourg

by Benjamin Franklin

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 12 plates. 338, 318, 2 pp. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. Scattered minor foxing. Ford 315; Sabin 25607. Item #378131 The first French edition of Franklin's complete works on electricity, based on the fourth and best British edition, combined with the first French editions of a number of other works of Franklin's,

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