Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals. Now first collected and arranged with Memoirs of his Early Life, written by himself. Engraved portrait of the author and 13 plates; folding letterpress table of the Reformed Alphabet. xiv, [4], 440, [32]; [4], vi, 468; [2], vi, [2], 552 pages, including 3 engraved additional titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, 208x127 mm, contemporary 1/2 tree calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, covers detached or starting, vertical crack in Volume 1 spine; some moderate to heavy foxing, mostly minor marginal dampstaining in Volumes 1 and 3, few folding plates heavily browned in Volume 2. 19th-century label of the Amsterdam bookseller Gebroeders Kromsigt. London: J. Johnson and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806

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first complete collected edition in english. Ford 550.