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050 00 $aHF5386$b.F7 1778
100 1 $aFranklin, Benjamin,$d1706-1790.
240 10 $aWay to wealth.$lFrench.
245 13 $aLa science du Bonhomme Richard, ou Moyen facile de payer les impôts. /$cTraduit de l'anglois.
246 30 $aScience du Bonhomme Richard.
246 30 $aMoyen facile de payer les impôts.
250 $aSeconde édition, exactement semblable à la premiere.
260 $aA Philadelphie [i.e. Paris?]. Et se trouve a Paris :$bChez Ruault, libraire, rue de la Harpe,$c1778.
300 $a151, [5] p. ;$c17 cm. (12mo)
500 $a"Despite the title, this work is really a compilation from various sources of documents relating to America in some way and assumed a publication life of its own apart from the separate printings of B. Franklin's 'Science.'"--Echeverria & Wilkie.
500 $aOriginally published: Philadelphia [i.e. Paris] : Ruault, 1777.
500 $aESTC suggests that this edition is false; possibly printed in Switzerland and for sale in Paris.
500 $aSignatures: A-F¹² G⁶
500 $aWoodcut vignette of pastoral scene on title page; head and tail pieces.
500 $aCf. Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 777/42.
500 $a"La science du Bonhomme Richard," p. [1]-26, was translated by Antoine-François Quétant. "Poor Richard's speech had originally appeared in 1757 as 'Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people at a vendue of merchant-goods,' and came to be known as 'The way to wealth.'"--Echeverria & Wilkie.
500 $a"Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant la Chambre des Communes," translated by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, p. 27-81.
500 $a"Constitution de la République de Pensylvanie, telle qu'elle a été établie par la Commission Générale Extraordinaire ... ," p. 82-145.
500 $a"Interrogatoire de M. Penn a la barre du Parlement d'Angleterre," translated by Quétant and by Jean-Baptise L'Écuy, p. 146-151.
500 $aBookseller's advertisements, p. [1-5] at end.
500 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 2 has folded poem, from unknown Philadelphia newspaper, entitled "Sur l'erection de la statue de B. Franklin" signed by D.L. Morel, habitant de St. Domingue, pasted at foot of p. 81.
510 4 $aEcheverria & Wilkie. French image,$c778/78.
510 4 $aSabin$c25583.
510 4 $aFord, P.L. Franklin,$c114.
510 4 $aHildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,$c3705.
510 4 $aEnglish short title catalogue$cW41784.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary calf.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 2 the gift of Barbara V. Echeverria from the estateof Durand Echeverria.
590 $aProvenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: "Bibliothèque de Paul Martin": autograph at head of title page; "De la bibliotheque d'Adrien Durand": autograph on title page; François Tocaven: armorial bookstamp on verso of half-title leaf.
650 0 $aSuccess.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$tStamp Act (1765)
650 4 $aBooksellers' catalogs$zFrance$y1778.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xCauses.
651 0 $aPennsylvania$xPolitics and government$y1775-1865.
653 $aImprint 1778.
700 1 $aQuétant, Antoine-François,$d1733-1823.
700 1 $aDu Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel,$d1739-1817.
700 1 $aL'Ecuy, J.-B.$q(Jean-Baptiste),$d1740-1834.
700 1 $aPenn, Richard,$dapproximately 1736-1811.
700 1 $aMartin, Paul.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
700 1 $aDurand, Adrien.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
700 1 $aTocaven, François.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
700 1 $aEcheverria, Durand.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
710 1 $aGreat Britain.$bParliament.$bHouse of Commons (1766).$tExamination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, before an august assembly, relating to the repeal of the Stamp Act.$lFrench.
710 1 $aPennsylvania.$tConstitution (1776).$lFrench.
710 1 $aGreat Britain.$bParliament.$bHouse of Lords (1776)
752 $aFrance$dParis.
752 $aUnited States$bPennsylvania$dPhiladelphia.
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