Expériences et observations sur l'électricité : faites à Philadelphie en Amérique / par M. Benjamin Franklin ; & communiquées dans plusieurs lettres à M.P. Collinson de la Société royale de Londres ; traduites de l'anglois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.

Contributor:

Durand, Laurent, 1712?-1763, bookseller.

Dalibard, Thomas François, 1703-1799, translator.

Moreau, Nicolas-François, 1716?-1773, printer.

Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Experiments and observations on electricity. French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Electricity--Early works to 1850.

Electricity.

Electricity--History.

History.

Genre:

Early works.

History.

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered pages, 4-24, lxx pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 18 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Durand, ruë St. Jacques, au Griffon., M.D.CC.LII. (1752)

Language Note:

Item is in French, translated from English.

Notes:

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ ²a-²b⁸ c-e⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁸(-Q8).

"Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roy."; title page.

"Histoire abregée de l'électricité", by the translator: lxx page following "Avertissement."

"De l'Imprimerie de Moreau."; page [31], at end.

Errata: page [32], at end.

Translated by T.F. Dalibard., ascribed by Ford, Franklin bibliography, page 43.

Local Notes:

Smith copy contains the bookplate of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection. Copy also has "144" handwritten on title page.

Cited in:

Ford, P.L., Franklin bibliography, 80

OCLC:

7123138

Publisher Number:

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10133748-3 urn

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11274682-1 urn