Author: FRANKLIN, B118843 enjamin:
Title: Des Herrn Benjamin Franklins Esq. Briefe von der Elektricität. Aus dem Engländischen übersetzet nebst Anmerkungen von J. C. Wilcke.
Description: Leipzig:: Gottfried Kiesewetter, 1758, in-8vo, Frontispiz Kupfer + 13 n.n. Bl. (inkl. Titelbl. mit gest. Vign.) + 354 S., gebräunt und vereinzelt fleckig und unterstrichen, unten am Titelblatt Stempel Prof. Ernst Mach, Original-Pappband. Rücken erneuert. Gutes Exemplar. ¶ Selten. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. RARE. FIRST GERMAN EDITION. "Franklin's most important scientific publication. "Norman 830 (first English edition). A vital work that represents a historic publication in the literature of electricity. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon. " Printing and the Mind of Man 199 (1st ed. , 1751). There are two known states of the first German edition: with an erratum on p. 354, and without. This copy does not have the erratum. This edition not in BM Readex; Norman; Poggendorff; Brunet; Lowndes. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

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