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Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America

First edition · The leaf of plates is signed: T. Jefferys sculp · Signatures: [A]²B-M(Lsigned L); vertical chain lines · Below imprint: (Price 2s. 6d.) · Head- and tail-pieces; initial · Page 79 misnumbered 76 · Bookseller's advertisements: p. [87]-[88] · Sabin · Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.) · SCDIRB copy 39088000092304 has a Soviet reddish-brown postage stamp dated 1956 honoring Franklin affixed to front paste down endpaper · SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library, [in handwritten ink] Gift of Eric E. De Marsh · SCDIRB copy has a page of handwritten notes [made by DeMarsh?] tipped in at front, apparently based on P.L. Ford's bibliography of Franklin and other sources. A handwritten collational note describing the Library of Congress copy is on the front free endpaper · SCDIRB copy has a later dark brown half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers, with gilt-lettered spine and top edge gilt

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