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Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1754; 1761. First editions of both parts. Presentation copy inscribed in an unknown hand on the upper wrapper. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the Account "describes the plan on which the hospital was founded, rules for admission, rules for.....  Read More Item Details for Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth month, called May, 1754 ... [Bound with:] Continuation of the Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From the First of May 1754, to the Fifth of May 1761 Add to Wish List

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London: Published by Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769; London: [William Bowyer], 1764. The fourth edition, being the first collected edition and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin.....  Read More Item Details for Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America. To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole Corrected, Methodized, Improved and Now First Collected into one volume ... [Bound with:] A letter from Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy at Upsal, to Mr. Aepinus, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, and Member of the Academies of Berlin, Stochholm, and Erfurth. Read at the Royal Society December 23, 1763, and March 1764 Add to Wish List

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