3 options
Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin / écrits par luimême, et adressés a son fils, suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection AC7 .F8542 791m
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E302.6.F7 F7 1791
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E302.6.F7 F7 1791
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Standardized Title:
- Autobiography French. 1791
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fuhrman, J.M. (donor) (copy 1)
- Rosengarten, J.G. (donor) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, vi, 156 pages, 1 unnumbered page-363, that is, 207, 1 page (final page blank) ; 19 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Chez Buisson, 1791.
- Notes:
- Pages [204]-[207] numbered 360-363.
- The first edition of Franklin Autobiography. Quérard attributes the translation to Dr. Jacques Gibelin. The portion written by Franklin is only to the year 1731, and the remainder of his life is a translation from Wilmer's Memoirs of Franklin, with considerable alterations. cf. P. L. Ford's Franklin bibliography, 1889, p. 183-184.
- P. [154] (3d count) numbered 254.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 25549
- Ford, P.L. Franklin 383
- OCLC:
- 4119553
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.