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Observations upon a supposed antique bust at Turin : in two letters, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society. / By Edward Wortley Montagu, Esq; F.R.S..
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1781 Bid (b.w.) Af.404.17 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montagu, Edward Wortley, 1713-1776 59246
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Busts--Italy--Turin.
- Busts.
- Sculpture, Ancient--79716.
- Sculpture, Ancient.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 1763.
- Physical Description:
- 19, [1] p. ; 26 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London, : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, at Tully's head in the Strand., MDCCLXIII. [1763]
- Notes:
- "Read before the Royal Society November 25, 1762."
- Bookseller's advertisements on p. [1] at end.
- Local Notes:
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- HSP in LCP.
- Bound with Biddle, Oration, q.v.; number 13 in table of contents item 17 in volume. 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 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (3); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1855, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (BL) T000573
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