San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Large octavo. Full brown morocco, lettered in gilt. Portrait. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase. First printing in this format, the text edited from Franklin's manuscript at the Huntington Library. One of 400 numbered copies (of 426) printed by Andrew Hoyem and.....
Boston. 1853. 233pp. plus ads. Frontis. Plates. Original cloth. Edgeworn, chipped at base of spine, cloth soiled. Some foxing of plates, else internally very good. The author was captured at Patagonia on a schooner voyage to California, escaped after three months, and reached the gold mines in California in February.....
Paris. 1872. 113,[1]pp. 16mo. Original printed blue wrappers. Spine chipped, covers loosening and lightly soiled. Internally clean. Very good. Much later edition of Franklin's WAY TO WEALTH, published by the Societé Frankline.
Paris & London. 1817. [2],xxxi,409,[1]pp. Mid-19th century three-quarter pebbled cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Light scattered foxing. Very good. A scarce volume of selected correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, translated into French.
Paris: Chez Durand, 1752. 24,lxx,[10],222,[2],[30]pp. plus folding plate. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label, edges stained red. Corners and spine extremities lightly worn. Slight separation at fold of plate. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript table of contents on front free endpaper. Very good. The first French edition.....
London: Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. [2],iv,[2],496 [i.e. 510, accounting for mispagination, plus four extra pages where the page numbers have been duplicated, i.e. page numbers 112-113 and 416-417 appear twice],[16]pp. including leaf of errata and advertisement "concerning this fourth edition," plus seven engraved plates.....
Philadelphie [i.e. Paris]. 1778. 151pp. Half title. Original calf, leather label. Rubbed, hinges cracked but cords sound. Slight paper loss affecting part of the imprint, skillfully repaired. Overall good. The fourth edition of the "Way to Wealth" issued in France (the first was the preceding year). Besides the sayings of.....
Paris: Imprime par C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827. [6],xvi,16pp., plus a [1]p. prospectus on a folio sheet laid in. Large folio. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn, torn along the spine. A few instances of foxing. Very good. From a printing of 200 copies. An elaborate oversized printing of a part of Franklin's.....
London. 1833. Six volumes. Portrait frontispiece in first volume. Folding facsimile plate in third volume. Seven (of eight) plates and maps (five folding) in sixth volume. Original green patterned cloth, black paper labels, gilt. Moderate to considerable shelf wear to the bindings, spine ends frayed or chipped, some volumes a......
Paris. 1773. Two volumes. [4],xxiv,338; [4],xvi,318,[2]pp., plus twelve plates and frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Half titles. Contemporary mottled calf, spines elaborately gilt with raised bands, leather labels stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities, spine head of first volume a bit chipped at head of spine, light wear to joints. 19th-.....
[Augsburg: Johann Martin Will, ca. 1778]. Mezzotint portrait, 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Trimmed, but not too closely. Small closed tear at top edge of image, barely perceptible. Quite clean. Very good. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Johann Martin Will after the original image by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. The.....
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[Paris: Marie Francois Drouhin, ca. 1790]. Handcolored oval mezzotint portrait, 10 x 8 1/4 inches, on a 12 1/2 x 9 1/4-inch sheet. Sheet lightly browned, more so around the edges. Overall, very good. Matted. An attractive mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin, with delicate contemporary coloring. The engraving was done.....
A Philadelphie; et se trouve à Paris.... 1783. [4],540pp. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with leather label. Corners and hinges rubbed. Light foxing to outer leaves. Very good. The Franklin-inspired French edition of the constitutions of the original thirteen states of the newly created United States of America. Only.....
London: Printed by S. Palmer, 1725. 219pp. Quarto. Contemporary Cambridge-style calf, rebacked in matching calf with raised bands, original label preserved. Corners repaired in matching calf. Internally quite clean. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. The third edition of Wollaston's religious work, after the first of 1722.....
[London: Printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, 1753]. [18],438,438-39,439-571,[17]pp. plus twenty- one folding plates. Lacks the titlepage, which is present in fine facsimile. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Light wear and dustsoiling to first few and final leaves.....
