Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Oeuvres.

Paris: Chez Quillau, Esprit, et l'Auteur, 1773.

First edition in French, two quarto volumes bound as one, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin in his study and twelve full-page plates, translated from the English of the fourth edition by Jacques Barbeu Dubourg (1709-1779) with new additions, half-titles to each part present; bound in contemporary sponged calf, worn and abraded, in need of restoration, 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Ford 315; Sabin 25607.