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A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: ... By William Watson, F.R.S.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1746 Wat Af.370.1 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787 19199
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [2],80p.,plate ; 8°.
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for C. Davis, 1746.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; brief marginalia by Franklin in pencil on pp. 35, 51, and 64, badly shaved; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (91); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Discussed in a letter from Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1747, cf. Hayes and Wolf, The library of Benjamin Franklin.
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