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Des Herrn D. Benjamin Franklin's... Santliche Werke.Description
Des Herrn D. Benjamin Franklin's...Santliche Werke. Aus dem Englischen und Franzusischen ubersezt, Nebst des Franzosischen Jebersezers, des Herrn Barbeu Dubourg, Zusazen, und mit einigen Anmertungen versehen von G. I. Wenzel.
Dresden: In der Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung, 1780.
1st German ed. 3 vols. [12), 502; (12), 442pp; 636pp.
A nice copy of the first German edition of Franklin's collected works. The folding plates in volumes 1 and 2 include several diagrams illustrating his electrical experiments, some of his magic squares, and the stove and glass armonica he invented. Ford describes this edition as "a union of Dubourg's and Vaughan's editions.
"Jacques Barbeu Dubourg (1709-1779) was the French translator of Franklin's work on electricity; Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835), the British radical later to be involved in negotiating the Treaty of Paris, published the 1779 London edition of Franklin's works.
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Sabin 25581. Ford 344.Condition
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Very GoodDate Examined
Dec 12, 2024Notes
Frontis., 14 folding plates.
Contemporary full leather with gilt ruled and decorated spine.
Worming in several places to boards but with almost none to text blocks, extending only to front flyleaves of vol. 1; joints starting to crack, particularly vol. land vol. 3; losses to gilt decoration at top of spine of vol. 3; expected mild toning throughout, else very good.