Œuvres de M. Franklin, docteur es loix ...
By: traduites de l'anglois sur la quatrieme édition Par M. Barbeu Dubourg ; avec des additions nouvelles et des figures en taille douce. Tome premier [-second].
Contributors: Barbeu Du Bourg, M. 1709-1779.; L'Ecuy, J.-B. 1740-1834.; Martinet, Franc̦ois Nicolas, b. 1731, engraver.; Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886, former owner.; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress); Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Quillau l'aîné ... Chez Esprit ... et l'auteur ...
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Electricity -- Early works to 1850.
Genres: Early works to 1850.
Notes: "Brunet states that the translation was made by J.B. L'Écuy. The first volume is devoted entirely to electricity, being a reprint of the English editions, with the addition of several pieces not included in any former edition. The second volume includes ... The Pennsylvania fireplace, Observations on the increase of mankind; Letters to Shirley, Poor Richard (which in the translation becomes 'Le pauvre Henri'), the Craven street letters, and a number of letters from Franklin to the editor."--Cf. Ford.
v. 1: xiij, [2], 338 p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 2: xiij, [3], 318, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates.
Engravings by F.N. Martinet.
LC copy bound in 1 v.
LC copy has signed binding: "Bound by F. Bedford for H. Stevens". Has bookplate of Henry Stevens.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 315