FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—Poor Richard improved: being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the true Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; and the Riſing, Setting and Southing of the Moon, for the Year of our Lord 1757: [1758:] Being the Firſt [Second] after Leap-Year. . . . By Richard Saunders, Philom. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. 12mo, two volumes, light brown levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, in a brown straight-grain morocco case, by Bedford.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved by Benjamin Franklin. Paris. Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard . . . M.DCC.XCV. 8vo, blue morocco, back richly tooled, panelled sides, silk linings, gilt over uncut edges, by Bozerian.
Large and thick paper copy: six printed, with proof impression of the portrait by Tardieu after Duplessis. The greater part of this book is accompanied by a French translation. Following the well-known Epitaph are twenty-eight pages preceded by the sub-title, "Observations sur les Sauvages du Nord de l'Amérique, par Franklin," with a separate pagination and not included in the Table.
Charles Nodier's copy.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth. 1795. 12mo, citron levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by David.
Another copy printed upon large paper, with proof impression of the portrait of Franklin by Tardieu after Duplessis.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved by Benj. Franklin. Paris, Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard, [by P. Causse at Dijon] . . . M.DCC.XCV. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt back, side corners after the manner of Roger Payne, uncut edges, by Rivière.
Large paper copy, with two impressions of the exquisite portrait of Franklin by Alex. Tardieu after Duplessis, one a proof before the name on the tablet.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—[Poor Richard. Bowles's Moral Pictures; Being Lessons for the Young and the Old, on Industry, Temperance, Frugality, &c. or Poor Richard Illustrated. By the late Dr. Benj. Franklin.] 4to, half green morocco, gilt edges.
A portfolio containing the twenty-four original water-colour drawings by Dighton, with the engravings published by Bowles; also original water-colour drawings of Franklin and his press, and two engraved portraits.