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Experimenta, atque observationes, quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur, atque explicatur.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1783 Bla (b.w.) Af.394.2 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 31757
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity--Early works to 1850--71386.
- Electricity.
- Physical Description:
- [4], 66 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- Augustæ Taurinorum : Ex Typographia Regia, [1769]
- Notes:
- Place and printer from colophon.
- Signatures: n[superscript 2]A-G[superscript 4]H[superscript 3]I[superscript 2].
- Local Notes:
- One fold. plate.
- Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Blagden, Proceedings, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Minor MS note on p. 6.
- Modern half sheep over contemporary boards, bound with other works. Nairne to Benjamin Franklin, 2 December 1783, telling him that he had sent "sometime ago the account of shortning wire by Lightning which I hope you have received"; MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; inscription on title: Dr Fra[nklin] for . . ., badly shaved; purchased from Dufief, 1801-1803, by William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (20); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to Historical Society.
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