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Franklin, Benjamin: Benjamin Franklins enskilda lefwerne, upsatt af honom sjelf och stäldt till hans son. Hwartil äro bifogade åtskillige händelser och omdömen, som angå denne store man.
by Franklin, Benjamin
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Stockholm: Nordström, 1792. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Fine. Quarter Calf. First Swedish Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stockholm: Nordstroem, 1792. First Swedish Edition of Franklin's autobiography. 12mo. Quarter calf over marble boards. Gilt titles, all edges trimmed. 218 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising. Double frontispiece portraits of Franklin, one with the fur hat and spectacles, the other an older profile. No visible flaws, endpapers look modern. Franklin's memoir was first published in French a year before and did not appear in English until 1793. Scarce. Fine..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012412
- Title
- Franklin, Benjamin: Benjamin Franklins enskilda lefwerne, upsatt af honom sjelf och stäldt till hans son. Hwartil äro bifogade åtskillige händelser och omdömen, som angå denne store man.
- Author
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Swedish Edition
- Publisher
- Nordström
- Place of Publication
- Stockholm
- Date Published
- 1792
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About Rose's Books, IOBA
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
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- Edges
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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