BOOK
Title:
The pictorial life of Benjamin Franklin: embracing anecdotes illustrative of his character : embellished with engravings
Creators:
Weld, H. Hastings (Horatio Hastings), 1811-1888 | Frost, John, 1800-1859 | Hunter, Kate | Lindsay & Blakiston | Gilbert & Gihon
Publication:
Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia, 1847.
Notes:
May have been written by H.H. Weld or John Frost. Leaves of plates with engravings signed: Gilbert & Gihon, Phila.
Extent:
208 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D., president of the American Philosophical Society: delivered March 1, 1791, in the German Lutheran Church of the city of Philadelphia, before the American Philosophical Society, and agreeably to their appointment
Creators:
Smith, William, 1727-1803 | Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Pickering, Harry | Mason, William S., 1866-1961 | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, Philadelphia, 1792.
Notes:
Errata: p. [4], 1st sequence. "Appendix. Some papers referred to in the foregoing eulogium."--V, [1] p. at end. " ... The memory of the deceased was honored also, at the delivery of this eulogium, with the presence of the president, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the corporation, and most of the public bodies, as well as respectable citizens, of Philadelphia." " ... held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful knowledge, fellow of the Royal Society of London, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, of the Royal Society at Gottingen, the Batavian Society in Holland, and of many other literary societies in Europe and America, late minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Paris, sometime president, and for more than half a century a revered citizen, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... "
Extent:
[4], 40, v, [3] pages ; 21 cm
BOOK
Title:
Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
Alt. Title:
Autobiography. French. 1791
Creators:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gibelin, Jacques, 1744-1828 | Buisson | Gimbel, RichardMrs | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Chez Buisson, libraire, rue Haute feuille, no. 20, A Paris, 1791.
Notes:
Pages [204]-[207] numbered 360-363. The first edition of Franklin Autobiography. Quérard attributes the translation to Dr. Jacques Gibelin. The portion written by Franklin is only to the year 1731, and the remainder of his life is a translation from Wilmer's Memoirs of Franklin, with considerable alterations. cf. P.L. Ford's Franklin bibliography, 1889, p. 183-184. P. [154] (3d count) numbered 254.
Extent:
[2], vi, 156, [1]-363 [i.e. 207], 1 pages (final page blank) ; 22 cm (8vo)
BOOK
Title:
The life of Benjamin Franklin
Creator:
Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-2008
Publication:
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa, ©2009.
Notes:
Maps on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Extent:
v.3 : illustrations ; 24 cm
