Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Philosophical and miscellaneous papers / lately written by B. Franklin.
Call Number
3744.91.371
Lapidus 5.1139
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4j03d847z
Publisher
London : Printed for C. Dilly, 1787.
Language
English
Date Created
1787
Extent
[6], 186 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., map (engraving) ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Book-plate: Richard Meux, esq.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959; 2021.
References
ESTC T59394
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
A letter [concerning chimneys] to Dr. Ingenhausz. Appendix: Notes on the above letter
Miscellaneous observations
Letter from Mr. Rusten to Dr. Franklin
Description of a new stove for burning of pitcoal, and consuming all its smoke
Meteorological conjectures, &c.
Letter to Mr. Nairne of London
A letter to Mr. Alphonsus le Roy, containing sundry maritime observations
Information to those who would remove to America
Remarks concerning the savages of North America
The internal state of America; being a true description of the interest and policy of that vast continent
Letter to B--V--, esq.; on the criminal laws, and the practice of privateering.
Notes
Edited by Edward Bancroft, who in the advertisement announces a second volume, but this was never printed. Cf. Ford's Franklin bibl., p. 177.
Includes map 'Chart of the Gulf Stream' (to face page 122)
Signatures: [A]⁴(-A4) B-M⁸ N⁶(-N6).
Princeton copy 1 Imperfect: map wanting.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Modern half leather; marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Chimneys
Stoves
Meteorology—Early works to 1800
United States—Economic conditions
Indigenous peoples of North America
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
211

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/29b26df5-356b-4fa1-a078-b58e31c06a59/manifest