boards with leather spine, front cover detached, chipped at top and bottom of spine, boards worn and scuffed
1769 · London
by Benjamin Franklin
Endpaper detached with stamp of previous owner in purple ink. Pen signature of ? "Johnstone, Edinburgh" on half title page. Page numbers 112-113, 416-417 and 465-472 appear twice, advertisement and errata leaf bound between title page and preface, index appears after numbered pages.
Overall a clean copy in a worn contemporary binding. The most desirable edition of the publication described as the "most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" in Printing and the Mind of Man. (Inventory #: OSLAS1)
Overall a clean copy in a worn contemporary binding. The most desirable edition of the publication described as the "most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" in Printing and the Mind of Man. (Inventory #: OSLAS1)