FRANKLIN Benjamin Oeuvres... Traduites de l’Anglois sur la Quatrième Edition par M. Barbeau Dubourg avec des additions nouvelles et des Figures en Taille douce. Paris, Quillau et Esprit, 1773. 2 tomes in 1 vol. in-4° mm. 250 x 200, di pp. [2], XXII, [2], 338, [2]; pp. [4], XIII, [3], 318, [2] with 1 portrait of Franklin in opening engraved by Martinet, 5 copper plates at the end of the I vol. and 7 copper plates at the end of the II vol. A total of 12 copper plates. Contemporary full calf binding, spine with 6 golden sections with ornaments and label for the title.
First French edition of the complete works of Franklin, translated by Barbeau Dubourg, who was in correspondence with Franklin during his translation work [letters occurred, and other additions are shown here]. The first volume contains all the writings dedicated to electricity; the second all other writings, economic, political, demographic, medical, physical, weather, music, and on various subjects.Quérard, France Litt., III/p. 200: "Cette édition des Oeuvres complètes de Franklin est plus complète, sous le rapport de la partie physique, que l’édition anglaise antécédente; elle renferme le recueil des lettres adressées par Franklin au traducteur". Slight sign of browning, nice copy. The lot is offered with a valid export licence. Zeitlinger, n. 8124: "Rare". Kress, I/n. 6935. Ronalds, p. 181.
FRANKLIN Benjamin Oeuvres... Traduites de l’Anglois sur la Quatrième Edition par M. Barbeau Dubourg avec des additions nouvelles et des Figures en Taille douce. Paris, Quillau et Esprit, 1773. 2 tomes in 1 vol. in-4° mm. 250 x 200, di pp. [2], XXII, [2], 338, [2]; pp. [4], XIII, [3], 318, [2] with 1 portrait of Franklin in opening engraved by Martinet, 5 copper plates at the end of the I vol. and 7 copper plates at the end of the II vol. A total of 12 copper plates. Contemporary full calf binding, spine with 6 golden sections with ornaments and label for the title.
First French edition of the complete works of Franklin, translated by Barbeau Dubourg, who was in correspondence with Franklin during his translation work [letters occurred, and other additions are shown here]. The first volume contains all the writings dedicated to electricity; the second all other writings, economic, political, demographic, medical, physical, weather, music, and on various subjects.Quérard, France Litt., III/p. 200: "Cette édition des Oeuvres complètes de Franklin est plus complète, sous le rapport de la partie physique, que l’édition anglaise antécédente; elle renferme le recueil des lettres adressées par Franklin au traducteur". Slight sign of browning, nice copy. The lot is offered with a valid export licence. Zeitlinger, n. 8124: "Rare". Kress, I/n. 6935. Ronalds, p. 181.
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