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Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin / écrits par lui-méme, 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.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1791 Fra Af.128
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 5036
- Language:
- French
- Physical Description:
- vi, 156, 363 (i. e. 207) p. ; 21 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.
- Local Notes:
- 2 vols. in one.
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Sabin, 25549
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