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1789116728New York: John Fenno July 29 1789. Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States issued during the presidency of George Washington on July 29 1789. Folio one page folded this issue includes a the following articles many continued from previous issues: Sketch of the Political State of America Original Specimens of Eloquence Foreign and Domestic Miscellaneous Articles and Sketches of Proceedings of Congress approved by G. Washington President of the United States. In near fine condition. First issued on April 15 1789 the Gazette of the United States was an early American partisan biweekly publication friendly to the administration of George Washington and to the policies and members of the emerging Federalist Party. The Gazette played a notable role in the development of political parties and early partisanship. It also played a leading role in inspiring the creation of its rival paper the National Gazette which was founded at the urging of anti-Federalist leaders Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as a vehicle for their party's own political self-promotion and polemics. John Fenno unknown books
1789116518New York: John Fenno Wednesday August 19 1789. Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States issued during the presidency of George Washington on August 19 1789. Folio one page folded this issue includes a the following articles many continued from previous issues: Extract of a Letter on Weights The Bow By Express From Paris and Sketches of the Proceedings of Congress in the House of the Representatives of the United States an Act for the Establishment of Lighthouses Beacons Buoys and Public Piers approved by George Washington as President of the United States and the obituary of George Washington Knox. In very good condition with a closed tear to the rear panel and ownership signature. First issued on April 15 1789 the Gazette of the United States was an early American partisan biweekly publication friendly to the administration of George Washington and to the policies and members of the emerging Federalist Party. The Gazette played a notable role in the development of political parties and early partisanship. It also played a leading role in inspiring the creation of its rival paper the National Gazette which was founded at the urging of anti-Federalist leaders Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as a vehicle for their party's own political self-promotion and polemics John Fenno unknown books
175125500Oxford: Thomas Baskett 1751. Thick 8vo pp. 32 the balance uinpaginated; 48 engraved plates one with tear in the corner affecting caption tear in the foremargin of U4 in the Psalter causing loss to a few letters; bound with as issued A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation. London John Beecroft 1751 engraved frontispiece pp. 56; bound with The Whole Book of Psalms London: printed by C. and J. Ackers for the Company of Stationers 1750 unpaginated; together 3 volumes in contemporary full straight-grain black morocco elaborate gilt and blind-tooled borders on covers with cherubs' heads hourglasses leopards sythes etc. gilt-decorated spine a little dull a.e.g.; good and sound or better. <br/><br/> Thomas Baskett unknown books
176728878London: Mark Baskett . and by the assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. Large paper copy measuring nearly 5 centimeters larger than that cited in Darlow & Moule large 4to 1 volume expanded to 2 unpaginated; sectional title page for the N.T.; contemporary full red goatskin elaborate borders on covers incorporating a Greek key design enclosing lilies with birds and vases with flowers an with a central monogram "MB" on an oval green morocco onlay surrounded by a black morocco onlay tooled with cherubs the whole surrounded by a flame tool smooth spines richly gilt and gilt-lettered direct a.e.g.; minor overall rubbing slight sunning od the spines but generally a very good sound handsome and sumptuous binding. Facing the first leaf in each volume is the following inscription: This Book was presented to me by my Son in Law Coll. Stephen Delancy and at my decease I bequeath it to my beloved grand daughter Miss Phila Delancy as witness my hand Maria Barclay. New York 15 August 1786." The Delancys were a prominent New York loyalist family. Stephen Delancy remained in New York throughout the Revolution but left for Nova Scotia in 1783. Presumably he commissioned these bindings from England at some prior date cf. his mother-in-law's initials on the central onlays. The binder has not been identified but it is similar to a binding described in Maggs catalogue 966 item 154 the onlay decoration being almost identical. Also included beneath the above inscription is a further one dated 1834 from Phila Delancy to her nephew William de Lancey Lawson. Darlow and Moule mention an engraved title page for those on regular paper but no such mention in the Darlow & Moule citation for the L.P. copy nor for that matter in any of the OCLC records. Darlow & Moule 1181. <br/><br/> Mark Baskett ... and by the assigns of Robert Baskett unknown books
172642734Edinburgh: John Baskett and Company 1726. Thick 8vo unpaged; text in double column; contemporary paneled dark brown goat boards tooled in gilt spine in 6 compartments elaborately gilt-tooled a.e.g. marbled endpapers; boards and extremities scuffed small loss to spine head neat restoration to top of front board and corners; lacking front free endpaper contemporary owner's ink scribbles on title page and verso with blots affecting the following leaf; same contemporary owner's signature "Will Dalrymple" on p. 4 and again on the last page of the Book of Revelations and rear free endpaper. Text followed by 3 pp. of tables and 60 pages of The Psalms of David in Metre. Citing the quarto edition of the same year Darlow & Moule note that this is apparently the earliest Edinburgh Bible to bear the J. Baskett name on title page. Darlow & Moule 760. <br/><br/> John Baskett and Company hardcover books
171925279Edinburgh: James Watson 1719. 16mo lacking all before Z2 the text beginning with The Proverbs; separate title page for the New Testament ruled in red throughout; contemporary red goatskin with an all-over gilt design in the "cottage-roof" style rebacked the gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments neatly laid down a.e.g.; the extremities are worn and rubbed but the binding is sound and attractive. <br/><br/> James Watson unknown books
1789116337Boston: Russell Benjamin October 21 1789. Number II of Vol. XII of "the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution" Benjamin Russell's Massachusetts Centinel issued on Wednesday October 21 1789 Hudson 147. Folio one page folded. The issue includes front-page articles on recently enacted acts allowing compensation for Members of the Senate and House of Representatives and the temporary establishment of the Post-Office and appointment of a Post-Master General both approved by Speaker of the House Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg President George Washington and Vice President John Adams on September 22nd 1789. The issue also includes sections on Foreign Intelligence News From France and advertisements for John & Thomas Armory & Co. Mr. Lewis Hayt's Auction-Room the Boston Book Store Joshua Thomas' Books and Stationary lost and found ads listings for ships and houses for rent a daily almanac. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. The Massachusetts Centinel was published in Boston on Wednesdays and Saturdays by Benjamin Russell between 1761 and 1845. Russell a native of Boston had been apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas one of the most influential late eighteenth-century American printers and founder of the American Antiquarian Society. The paper was "the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution" Hudson 147. In 1828 Russell sold the Centinel to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson and in 1840 the Centinel merged with a number of other Boston papers to form the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser which eventually became the Boston Herald. Russell, Benjamin unknown books
178750010London: Printed for C. Dilly 1787. First edition of John Adams' landmark work. Octavo original boards minor wear. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half calf clamshell box. Rare especially in the original boards. Adams wrote this work on constitutional theory while serving as Minister to the Court of St. James. It was a response to the liberal French statesman Turgot who had criticized the new American state constitutions for their conservative economic framework. Adams's Defence was often cited in the debates of the Constitutional Convention. "A work marked by insight breadth of views conviction courage and--we may venture to add--much wisdom"--Larned Literature of American History 2287. This volume was issued as a stand-alone work and was followed by two supplemental volumes the next year. Howes A60 "aa" Sabin 234 Printed for C. Dilly hardcover books
1787125308Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Cruikshank; and Young and McCulloch 1787. First edition of John Adams's greatest contribution to American political theory; from the library of one of the 39 signers of the United States Constitution Founding Father Gunning Bedford Jr. Octavo bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt ruling to the spine red morocco spine label lettered in gilt gilt turn-ins. Signed by Gunning Bedford Jr. on the title page. Born in Philadelphia in 1747 Gunning Bedford attended the College of New Jersey where he was a classmate of James Madison and later served in the Continental Army as an aide to General George Washington. After the Revolutionary war he became a prominent political figure sitting in the legislature on the state council and in the Continental Congress 1783-85. One of the more active members of the Constitutional Convention on May 14 1787 he was one of the 39 delegates that signed the Constitution of the United States. Gunning Bedford also served as Attorney General of Delaware from 1784 until he was designated by George Washington as a federal district judge for his state in 1789 a position he held for the rest of his life. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. An exceptional example with fine provenance. Adams wrote this work on constitutional theory while serving as Minister to the Court of St. James as a response to liberal French statesman Turgot who had criticized the new American state constitutions for their conservative economic framework. Adams's Defence was often cited in the debates of the Constitutional Convention. "A work marked by insight breadth of views conviction courage and--we may venture to add--much wisdom" Larned Literature of American History 2287. At the start of 1787 while minister to Great Britain and a year before he returned to America John Adams "felt an urgency like that of 1776. Great events were taking place at home. Support for a stronger central government was gaining ground. A constitutional convention was in the offing and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government so Adams plunged ahead. books piled about him his pen scratching away until all hours. By early January 1787 Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer. Titled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. copies were sent off at once to the United States and to Jefferson in Paris" McCullough John Adams 374. Of the Defence Thomas Jefferson wrote to Adams "I have read your book with infinite satisfaction and improvement. It will do great good in America. Its learning and its good sense will I hope make it an institute for our politicians old as well as young" Sowerby 3004. "From Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention had assembled Benjamin Rush a member of the Convention wrote that the Defence had 'diffused such excellent principles among us that there is little doubt of our adopting a vigorous and compound federal legislature. To a considerable extent Adams' Defence was an expanded more erudite rendition of the case for checks and balances in government that he had championed in his Thoughts on Government 1776 and later put into operation in his draft of the Massachusetts constitution" McCullough 375. "The work did much to familiarize the European mind to the novel state of things then taking place in America" Sabin 236. This volume was issued as a stand-alone work and was followed by two supplemental volumes the following year Sabin 234. Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Cruikshank; and Young and McCulloch unknown books
179445932Phildelphia: printed for John Ormrod by W. Woodward at Franklin's Head 1794. 12mo approx. 6½ v 4¼ inches pp. 196 7 Ormrod ads; the last 10 pages consist of a subscriber list among whom Oliver Evans and Benjamin Rush; engraved frontispiece portrait top blank margin trimmed; full crimson calf covers roll-grained to resemble roan or goat gilt key border on covers smooth gilt-deoorated spine laid out in 6 compartments green morocco label in one alternating gilt stars and rosettes in the others gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers; minor rubbing; near fine. Ode Inscribed to John Howard by William Haley with separate title page occupies pp. 167-185 as issued. Evans 26543. <br/><br/> printed for John Ormrod by W. Woodward at Franklin's Head unknown books
172744644Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau fils 1727. 12mo pp. 14 xxi 3 700 2; text in double column; full contemporary brown morocco gilt gilt spine in 6 compartments the bottom compartment with the initials CP or CF a.e.g. marbled endpapers; edges very slightly scuffed else fine. A beautiful copy. Cambridge only in OCLC as of October 2016; Darlow & Moule 3797. <br/><br/> Gabriel-François Quillau fils unknown books
176326567Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano 1763. 8vo pp. 4 676; printed in beautiful Greek types throughout; contemporary full calf rubbed at edges rebacked ca. early 20th century and preserving the old red morocco labels scuffed. Engraved bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. This is the only book printed in the Greek type that Baskerville himself designed and cut which is also the only Baskerville type that survives to this day. Gaskell add.2 noting that 2000 copies of the octavo edition were ordered printed by the Delegates of the University and 500 of the quarto. <br/><br/> e typographeo Clarendoniano unknown books
176629379London: J. Dodsley . B. Whiston and T. White . and G. Kearsly 1766. First edition 8vo pp. vi 1 8-189; engraved vignette of an eagle feeding her young on title page 6-line errata on verso of title page but without the extra errata slip pasted in at the back of some copies 6 small ink corrections in the text authorial; a stunning binding presentation of full red goatskin elaborate gilt filigree borders on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments green morocco label in 1 gilt rolled edges and turn-ins a.e.g. green silk bookmarker; bookplate of the Fintray House library; fine copy. Capel Berrow 1715-1782 was a divine whose work "was a farrago of ill-digested learning" DNB. This is his last and best book. Samuel Johnson was one of the subscribers to his collected Theological Dissertations 1782. <br/><br/> J. Dodsley ... B. Whiston and T. White ... and G. Kearsly unknown books
176248821Cambridge: printed by John Baskerville printer to the university 1762. First duodecimo Baskerville edition 12mo 198 leaves collating as in Gaskell; the title a cancellans as described by Gaskell with the price of "five shillings unbound"; bound with: Sternhold Thomas & John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre. Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville 1762. 55 of 61 leaves wanting K2-L6; first Baskerville edition; together in contemporary full red morocco elaborate gilt borders on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments without letters a.e.g.; extremities lightly rubbed but generally a very good copy in a nice binding. Gaskell 20 "Baskerville agreed with the University to print an edition of 4000 copies" and 21 respectively. <br/><br/> printed by John Baskerville, printer to the university unknown books
177652665Paris 1776. 10 volumes 8vo 34 finely engraved plates after Gravelot the frontispiece to vol. I signed "Elisabeth Thiebaut sculp." Half-titles in all but volume I half-title defective in vol. 7 and largely torn away in vol. 8; title page in vol. I detached but present; occasional minor dampstains occasional foxing or darkening of the plates; uncut the last few gatherings of vol. 10 unopened and bound in the original woodblock and color stencil-printed wrappers retaining at the bottom of vols. 4 8 and 9 the imprint and paper stock number of the papermaker François Pellé: "A Orléans chez Pelle No. 3." Contemporary manuscript paper labels on spines the liners of most wrappers consisting of printers' waste; scattered chips and tears some fraying of the edges considerable wear to the backstrips with loss a few vols. with sewing loose. A pirated edition of Voltaire's 1764 edition of Corneille in unusual and striking stencil-printed wrappers. The work was first published in Genava in 12 volumes 1764-65. <br/><br/> unknown books
170320165London: printed by M. Bennet for Dan. Brown et al. 1703. First edition in English folio pp. 34 431 1 17; full contemporary paneled calf red morocco label; slight crack at the bottom of the lower joint else a very good sound copy. The Dedication is signed J. G. i.e. James Gatherer. With the early ownership inscription of "Ph: Fowke M.D.A.D. 1703" with a six-line inscription in Latin and Greek beneath it and a number of additional notes in his hand throughout in the margins and on the rear blank flyleaves. Phineas Fowke 1638-1710 was a Yorkshire physician who graduated from Cambridge in 1668. He practiced in London and was admitted as a fellow in the College of Physicians in 1680. See DNB. <br/><br/> printed by M. Bennet, for Dan. Brown [et al.] unknown books
1773028953America 1773. Manuscript. Good. folio 5 ff. 163 5 pp. original manuscript bound in contemporary vellum front cover with title inked in early hand; binding darkened stained and rubbed with vellum cracked and peeling over spine. Sewing loosening; a number of leaves separated. Pages age-toned with minor offsetting edges of first few leaves tattered with the lower portion of title leaf chipped away. Apparently unpublished 18th century American manuscript dealing with natural religion the nature of prophecy and revelation and the definition of "real Christianity" vs. "Orthodoxy." The author seems to have been at least contemplating publication as a preliminary advertisement offers the usual disclaimer regarding a work "never intended. for the Eye of the Public" that might yet "accidentally fall into private Hands" of "Strangers." That advertisement is signed "W. D." with "America 1773." Supplied below in a slightly smaller finer lettering; text on p. 112 refers in passing to "this 28th Dec.r 1773." References to "modern" or current events are slim to nonexistent; but Liebnitz appears unfavorably. The author also cites more approvingly Drs. Clarke Sherlock and Burnet - along with "Machiavel" on the nature of governments. Gil Blas is mentioned as a history that might be viewed as truth by the credulous ages hence; Shaftesbury Voltaire and Locke are treated of in the last pages. The text is reasonably but not excessively erudite there are occasional forays into Greek and Latin; the work's tone is often combative with the author's negative opinions of much Jewish philosophy and doctrine bluntly expressed. <br /> books
177382405New Haven: Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green 1773. First edition of American Protestant clergyman James Dana's second published response to Jonathan Edwards' Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will preceded by Dana's prior examination of the same subject published anonymously in 1770. Octavo original three-quarter period calf over marbled boards gilt titles to the spine morocco spine labels raised bands. A rare and desirable example illustrating the tensions that shaped the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth century America. Widely regarded as "one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians" American revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards' theological work was firmly rooted in Reformed theology. In his major work The Freedom of the Will Edwards argued that although humanity possesses free will they are inherently depraved and bound to sin and therefore require divine guidance and grace. Regarded as inclining to Arminianism fellow Protestant clergyman James Dana first came into conflict with Edwards when he was ordained and and made pastor of Congregational Church in Wallingford Connecticut. Dana published his first Examination of Edwards' The Freedom of the Will anonymously in his continued Examination which revealed him as the author of both works Dana argued against Edwards' "denial of moral rational liberty; his distinction of natural and moral necessity and attributing the origin of evil to the want or withdraw of divine assistance." Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green hardcover books
171933014London: printed and sold by J. Roberts 1719. First edition small 8vo pp. 2 vi viii 128; contemporary full red goat with an all-over "cottage-roof" design enclosing a gilt coronet central and the initials "A. F." unlettered spine elaborately decorated in gilt in 6 compartments a.e.g.; slight rubbing at edges and minor wear at the ends of the joints. A penciled note on the flyleaf identifies the coronet and initials on the covers as those of Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex one of the sons of George III b. 1773. We have not been able to confirm this. Nonetheless this is a rare devotional book dedicated to Princess Anne the eldest daughter of George II; she was ten when the book appeared. OCLC records 3 copies: Oxford BL and the National Library of Scotland. ESTC adds no others. No copies located in the U.S. <br/><br/> printed and sold by J. Roberts unknown books
175631029Berlin: Haude et Spener 1756. Fourth edition originally published Berlin 1746 small 8vo pp. xxiv 380 4; woodcut title-page vignette and several head- and tail-pieces throughout; contemporary speckled tan calf spine in six compartments stamped in gilt in 5 and lettered in gilt in 1 speckled red edges; extremities rubbed and worn bottom of spine chipped away joints starting but sound; good or better. An early example of the "highspot" tradition of collecting listing 100 titles in a variety of subjects that were "must-haves" for the 18th-century book collector. <br/><br/> Haude et Spener unknown books
1769125438London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery 1769. First complete edition of "the most important scientific book of 18th-century America" and "America's first great scientific contribution" PMM. Octavo bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. With the rarely found half-title. Advertisement & errata leaf bound in following the preface. Illustrated with 7 copper-engraved plates 4 of which are folding. This the fourth first complete and most desirable edition of Franklin's important work contains for the first time complete notes on all of the experiments as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson Franklin and several other collaborators. The earlier editions each issued in three parts as separately published pamphlets usually bound together were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself significantly revising the text adding for the first time a number of his own philosophical letters and papers introducing footnotes correcting errors and adding an index Cohen Benjamin Franklin's Experiments. In near fine condition. Expertly rebacked. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. Franklin's most important scientific publication" Experiments and Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father's crucial kite and key experiment his work with Leiden jars lightning rods and charged clouds Norman 830. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him-- even Newton himself-- but it was he who provided the experimental proof" PMM. "The lightning experiments caused Franklin's name to become known throughout Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley in his History of Electricity characterized the experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as 'the greatest perhaps since the time of Isaac Newton. Franklin's achievement. marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of specialization" DSB. Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery hardcover books
1769116750London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery 1769. First complete edition of "the most important scientific book of 18th-century America" and "America's first great scientific contribution" PMM. Octavo bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards morocco spine label. Advertisement & errata leaf inserted following preface. Illustrated with 7 copper-engraved plates 2 of which are folding. In very good condition. First editions are rare exceptionally so in a contemporary binding. Franklin's most important scientific publication" Experiments and Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father's crucial kite and key experiment his work with Leiden jars lightning rods and charged clouds Norman 830. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him-- even Newton himself-- but it was he who provided the experimental proof" PMM. "The lightning experiments caused Franklin's name to become known throughout Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley in his History of Electricity characterized the experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as 'the greatest perhaps since the time of Isaac Newton. Franklin's achievement. marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of specialization" DSB. Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery hardcover books
1787125345London: Printed for C. Dilly in the Poultry 1787. First edition of the last collection of Franklin's writings to appear during his lifetime; a major collection of his political philosophical and scientific writings a second volume of which was planned but never published. First issue with page 25 <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">mispaginated</span> "52." Octavo bound in full contemporary tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine red morocco spine label lettered in gilt gilt Greek key ruling to the front and rear panels. With four copper-engraved folding plates including diagrams of the Franklin stove and the earliest published map of the Gulf Stream. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and early ownership inscriptions. Text and plates very clean. Rare. Intended by the publisher as a companion volume to the Experiments and Observations on Electricity 1769 and his Political Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces 1779 Franklin's Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers contains a selection of important political essays including his Remarks concerning the Savages in North America 1784 The letter from Dr. B. Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan. of Privateering 1785 and Information to those who would remove to America 1784 which is "one of the clearest expressions of his belief that American society should be based on the virtues of the middle. classes" Isaacson 423. Also highly notable is Internal State of America his sharply optimistic postwar reply to "complaints of hard times in the American press. with an equally sharp consciousness of British propaganda" Crane William and Mary Quarterly XV:2 218. This volume additionally contains three major scientific writings: Description of a New Stove for the burning of Pitcoal 1785 Letter from Dr. B. Franklin to Dr. Ingenhausz On the Causes and Cure of Smoky Chimneys 1785 and Letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin. containing sundry Maritime Observations 1785. Merging his political and scientific interests Franklin used Maritime's study of the sea and Gulf Stream to "proclaim the virtues of his nation and its people." This inspired others to also "think of the Gulf Stream in political terms. In 1790 Thomas Paine declared the French Revolution 'as fixed as the Gulf Stream' and Jonathan Williams claimed the current's waters were as distinct as 'the colors of red white and blue'" Chaplin 320-25. Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry unknown books
1779125035London: Printed for J. Johnson 1779. First edition of "the only edition of Franklin's writings other than his scientific printed during his lifetime" Ford. Octavo bound half diced calf over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin three engraved plates one folding and folding table of the reformed alphabet. In near fine condition. Complete with index addenda and corrigenda. An exceptional example. "The only edition of Franklin's writings other than his scientific which was printed during his lifetime; was done with Franklin's knowledge and consent and contains an 'errata' made by him for it" Ford 342. Edited by his close friend Benjamin Vaughan and published in London while Franklin was serving as America's ambassador this seminal collection contains many of his writings on the rebellious American colonies and incendiary British measures such as the Stamp Act. Of particular interest is The Examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin 255-301 a record of his 1766 appearance before Parliament. In Franklin's answers to the over 150 questions posed him in an afternoon of "highly charged testimony he would turn himself into the foremost spokesman for the American cause" Isaacson. Printed for J. Johnson hardcover books
1779125950London: Printed for J. Johnson 1779. First edition of "the only edition of Franklin's writings other than his scientific printed during his lifetime" Ford. Octavo bound in three quarters leather gilt titles to the spine raised bands. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin three engraved plates one folding and folding table of the reformed alphabet. In near fine condition. Complete with index addenda and corrigenda. A very nice example. "The only edition of Franklin's writings other than his scientific which was printed during his lifetime; was done with Franklin's knowledge and consent and contains an 'errata' made by him for it" Ford 342. Edited by his close friend Benjamin Vaughan and published in London while Franklin was serving as America's ambassador this seminal collection contains many of his writings on the rebellious American colonies and incendiary British measures such as the Stamp Act. Of particular interest is The Examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin 255-301 a record of his 1766 appearance before Parliament. In Franklin's answers to the over 150 questions posed him in an afternoon of "highly charged testimony he would turn himself into the foremost spokesman for the American cause" Isaacson. Printed for J. Johnson hardcover books
