Scelta di lettere e di opuscoli / del Signor Beniamino Franklin ; tradotti dall'inglese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 5036

Contributor:

Campi, Carlo Giuseppe

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

Italian

Physical Description:

99, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

In Milano : Nella Stampería di Giuseppe Marelli, 1774.

Notes:

An abridgement of Barbeu Du Bourg's French edition, made by Carlo Giuseppe Campi.--cf. P.L. Ford. Franklin bib., no. 321.

Signatures: [A]-F[superscript 8][G][superscript 2].

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Wilson, Essay, q.v.; item 4 in volume. Campi to Franklin, 24 July 1774: "Voici 4 exemplairs du mon choix. Si je ne me flatte d'avoir fait une traduction elegante, j'espere du moins d'avoir rendu néttement le sens des vos Lettres, et des vos opusculs" (P 21: 250 -51). Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1882 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (71); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry.