Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
By: écrits par lui-méme, et adressés a son fils ; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.
Contributors: Gibelin, Jacques, 1744-1828.; Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Buisson, Libraire ...
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Other titles: Science du bonhomme Richard.
Notes: French translation from English.
Pages [204]-[207] misnumbered 360-363.
The first edition of Franklin Autobiography. Translated by Gibelin. The portion written by Franklin is only to the year 1731, and the remainder of his life is a translation from Wilmer's Memoirs of Franklin, with considerable alterations. Cf. Ford.
Signatures: a⁴ A-I⁸ K⁶, ²A-²N⁸.
La science du bonhomme Richard translated by A.F. Quétant. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
"La science du bonhomme Richard": p. 175-196, second sequence.
LC copy has bookplate of Henry Stevens.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 383
NUC pre-1956 NF 0339297, NF 0339741