Author:

Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790  Search this

Inscriber:

Bixby, William K (William Keeney),) 1857-1931 DSI  Search this

Publisher:

Bixby, William K (William Keeney),) 1857-1931  Search this

Correspondent:

Ingenhousz, Jan 1730-1799  Search this

Former owner:

Kendall, Evelyn Way 1893-1979 DSI  Search this

Plimpton, George A (George Arthur),) 1855-1936 DSI  Search this

Printer:

Updike, Daniel Berkeley 1860-1941  Search this

Merrymount Press  Search this

Author:

Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection DSI  Search this

Physical description:

14 unnumbered pages facsimiles 26 cm

Type:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1922

Notes:

Colophon: Two hundred and fifty copies ... were printed on Vidalon paper for W.K. Bixby by D.B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston, October, 1922

Facsimile reprint of Franklin's handwritten letter addressed to Monsieur le Dr. Ingenhauss [Ingenhousz], Vienna, Austria, dated 16 January 1784, with transcription and added commentary

Illustrated title page

Introductory note signed: W.K. Bixby

Also available online.

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NASMRB copy 39088019378397 is a gift of Evelyn Way Kendall. This copy has Kendall Collection accession number L-059.

NASMRB copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper: (in ink) George A. Plimpton with New Year's greeting from W.K. Bixby, 1924; (in pencil) Evelyn, from Anne.

NASMRB copy has the original color-printed paperboard binding with brown cloth spine.

Topic:

Balloons  Search this

Call number:

TL617 .F73 1784a

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1081141