Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the examination of the animal magnetism, as now practised at Paris. Translated from the French. ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal 15677

Contributor:

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.

Standardized Title:

Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal. English

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xx,108p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Johnson, 1785.

Notes:

A report of representatives of the Faculté de médecine de Paris and the Académie des sciences; Franklin was a member of the latter.

Includes: 'Report of a committee of the Royal Society of Medicine, appointed to examine a work, entitled, Enquiries and doubts repsecting the animal magnetism, by M. Thouret' (pp.1-17).

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy Af.371.4: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Historical Society copy Af.371.4: Bound with France, Commission chargée de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Rapport (8vo), q.v.; item 4 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. Inscription on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand: This Vol. contains several Tracts relative to Animal Magnetisme; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (92): sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.