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Experiments and observations on electricity: made at Philadelphia in America

by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S....; to which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects; the whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume and illustrated with copper plates
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Edition:
The fifth edition
Printing:
London : Printed for F. Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Serial Holdings:
Shelved in the Frankenstein Collection in the Vault.

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Author/Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Contributors:
Hulett, James, -1771 , engraver
Cole, B. (Benjamin) , engraver
Newbery, Francis, -1780 , publisher
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Experiments and observations on electricity: made at Philadelphia in America [by Franklin, B.]
Subjects:
Electricity — Early works to 1850
Physics — Early works to 1800
Electricity
Physics
Genres:
Printed books — England — London — 18th century
Early works
General Notes:
Vertical chain lines.
Plates signed: J. Hullett sculp. or B. Cole sculp. One plate is unsigned.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3X⁴ Y1.
Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 631
Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 318
ESTC T56602
Includes index.
Purchase: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC, May 2016.
Rebound in calf over boards. Gilt-stamped borders and decoartions on front and back covers. Spine in six compartments with gilt-stamped rules. Title on label in second compartment from head.
Foxing throughout.
Physical Description:
v, 1 unnumbered page, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations (engravings and woodcuts), music ; 24 cm (4to)
Physical Characteristics:
wood; engraving; 4to
Call Numbers:
QC516 .F85 1774
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
a 10001673 (i.e., a10001673)
OCLC Numbers:
14851063