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Lot 180
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$813
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Lot Description
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790). Works. London: J. Johnson and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806.
3 volumes, 8vo (210 x 128 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved titles, 13 engraved plates (8 folding), folding letterpress table. (Occasional faint spotting to plates.) Contemporary calf gilt (worn, a few covers detached or detaching).
First collected edition of Franklin's complete works in philosophy, politics, and morals. Ford 550.