The Will of Benjamin Franklin 1757 : Now Reproduced in Facsimile Together with an Introduction by Carl Van Doren
by Franklin, Benjamin
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1949. Stapled paperback pamphlet, 16 pages, plus the foldout halograph facsimile reproduction of the handwritten will; very gently used, green cover, slightly larger than the text block, accordingly bumped and creased along edges, two very tiny tears to front top, light crease to top corner of all pages, beautiful little bookplate of previous owner inside front cover and his tiny ink numeral "110" inside back cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for the very scarce With Napolean in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, and for A. Hilliard Atteridge`s Napoleon's Brothers, very scarce in the Methuen First Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042618
- Title
- The Will of Benjamin Franklin 1757 : Now Reproduced in Facsimile Together with an Introduction by Carl Van Doren
- Author
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Biography History American President Social Local Legal Souvenir Ephemera
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Biography; Ephemera;
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Eric James
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