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Franklin (Benjamin) Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, 1779, London, J....
Franklin (Benjamin)
Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, 1779, London, J. Johnson, 8vo, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 plates, lacking folding table, xi, [1], pp.567 plus pp.[8] Addenda & Corrigenda. Ex libris label of Leonis S. Olschki to front pastedown. Some offsetting and foxing, contemp. bowed, scuffed and rubbed calf, fragile upper joint with banded spine badly chipped at head into gilt lettering, and at tail. Edited by Benjamin Vaughn (1751-1835) diplomatist and important mediator in Paris during the Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782-3.
[together with:] [Korb (J. G.)] Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great, translated"¦ and Edited by the Count Mac Donnell, 1863, London, Bradbury & Evans, 8vo., 2 vols., First Edition, upper hinges very weak with text block detaching, bumped and rubbed original cloth gilt (2)
Two scarce titles.
Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, 1779, London, J. Johnson, 8vo, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 plates, lacking folding table, xi, [1], pp.567 plus pp.[8] Addenda & Corrigenda. Ex libris label of Leonis S. Olschki to front pastedown. Some offsetting and foxing, contemp. bowed, scuffed and rubbed calf, fragile upper joint with banded spine badly chipped at head into gilt lettering, and at tail. Edited by Benjamin Vaughn (1751-1835) diplomatist and important mediator in Paris during the Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782-3.
[together with:] [Korb (J. G.)] Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great, translated"¦ and Edited by the Count Mac Donnell, 1863, London, Bradbury & Evans, 8vo., 2 vols., First Edition, upper hinges very weak with text block detaching, bumped and rubbed original cloth gilt (2)
Two scarce titles.
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