Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
La science du bonhomme Richard, ou, Moyen facile de payer les impôts / traduit de l'anglois.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1118
3744.91.333.8.1777
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5m60r2739
Publisher
À Philadelphie ; et se trouve à Paris : Chez Ruault ..., 1777.
Language
French
Date Created
1777
Extent
151, [1], 4 p. ; 17 cm. (12mo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on title page 'de franklin par de querlon et Mr Lécuy.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959; 2021.
References
ESTC W41782
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title vignette; head and tail pieces.
Translated by A.F. Quétant.
La science du bonhomme-Richard signed: Richard Saunders. The original was first published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title, "Father Abraham's speech", and frequently reprinted under title, "The way to wealth".
Appended: Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant la Chambre des communes [tr. par P.S. Dupont de Nemours] -- Constitution de la république de Pensylvanie -- Interrogatoire de M. Penn a la barre du Parlement d'Angleterre [tr. par A.F. Quétant and J.B. L'Écuy]
Publisher's advertisement: 4 p. (at end).
First separately printed edition of the French translation of Franklin's Way to Wealth.

Discovery Information

Subject
Success
Maxims
United States—Foreign relations—1775-1783

Physical Characteristics

File Count
167

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a54a5c2c-75ca-4505-ae4f-6e4eaee6b3f0/manifest