Franklin, Benjamin

Improvements Backwards. A Letter to Noah Webster

Franklin, Benjamin; Gordon Williams · 1987 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€135.41 | £113.09 | ¥23,969)

Napa, CA: Gordon Williams, 1987. Micro-Miniature Book. 64mo. 18 pp. Decorative Hardcover, with paper label affixed to cover. Near Fine. Scarce. Signed Colophon. .

A Specimen of Printing Types Belonging to Benjamin Franklin Bache's Printing Office, Philadelphia. 1965 Keepsake Reprint of 1790 Original

Friends of the Composing Room, Columbia University Libraries; Benjamin Franklin Bache; Rollo G. Silver · 1965 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€67.70 | £56.54 | ¥11,985)

NY: Friends of the Composing Room, Columbia University Libraries, 1965. Folio, Folded Sheet, [4 pp.] Illustrated. Very Good, with light staining. .

The Way to Wealth. Preface to Poor Richard Improved, 1758. Keepsake Printed in Connection with the Celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1953, Commemorating the 246th Birthday of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin; Charles V. Morris; John De Pol (engrav) · 1953 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.14 | £37.70 | ¥7,990)

New York: Privately Printed, 1953. 16mo. Gilt Blue Boards, 26 pp. Very Good+. Four Engravings. Former owner's bookplate inside cover. .

A Parable. Printed by John Henry Nash for the Members of the Book Club of California

John Henry Nash; Benjamin Franklin · 1923 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.27 | £75.39 | ¥15,980)

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1923. Broadside. 30 cm. Deckled Laid Light Card Stock Folder with Broadside tipped inside. Text within decorative border, Gothic Font in black ink, Uncial Font in red ink for title, Letterpress on Deckled Watermarked ("John Henry Nash") Laid Pap...

A Quart of Oysters and Other Bon Mots of Bon Homme Richard. Series: Typophile Monographs, 99. ; Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin. ; Keepsake

Benjamin Franklin; Charles V Morris (ed.) · 1972 · Wittenborn Art Books

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New York : Privately Printed, 1972. 12mo. 55 pp. Yellow Gilt Boards with Glassine Dust Jacket, Maroon and Black Ink Printed on Laid Paper, Illustrated, DJ Good with marginal tears, else Near Fine. Colophon reads: "This Keepsake represents the cooperative work of: A. Burton Car...

Poor Richard's Almanack. 1733. A Facsimile of the Only Copy Known, in the Collection of the Philip H. & A.S. W. Rosenbach Foundation

Benjamin Franklin; Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation · 1977 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Philadelphia, PA: Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1977. 16mo. [27 pp.], Stapled Wraps, Very Good. .

Turning the Grindstone. Number 5 of 150, Signed by Wilkey

Franklin, Benjamin; Elmira Smith Wilkey · 1984 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1984. Micro-Miniature Book. 64mo. [20 pp.] Oblong. Tan Cloth on Marbled Boards. Illustrations. Very Good with minor wear to corner. Number 5 of 150, Signed by Wilkey. Bradbury, p. 40, #7. 21 fine limited edition miniatures from the press of Suzanne G...

Benjamin Franklin Scribner Material: Photo Id, Royal Arch Mason's Card, Fbi CIVIL Fingerprint Card, Newspaper Clipping with an Account of His Death

Benjamin Franklin Scribner (1896 - 1950) · 1945 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Berkeley, California: Benjamin Franklin Scribner, 1945 - 1950. Three Cards & Newspaper Clipping, two items folded. 8" x 8" and smaller. Very Good with toning to clipping. Scribner was a Chemist and Metallurgist working for the Defense Industry in Berkeley. .

Quatuor. Pour Trois Violons Et Violoncelle. Transcription de Guillaume de Van

Benjamin Franklin; Guillaume De Van (transcr.) · 1946 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Paris: Odette Lieutier, 1946. Folio. Oblong 11 pp. Folded Musical Score in Slipcase, Good with tears & losses to slipcase, marginal tears, toning, foxing, & minor losses to score. Facsimile. Text in French. Transcription of a manuscript copy (by a professional copyist)--in the...

Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary... Two Volumes. Third Edition

Franklin, Benjamin ( 1706-1790); Richard Price, (1723-1791), preface · 1794 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,750.00 (€1,579.78 | £1,319.33 | ¥279,642)

London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1794. 8vo. 11.5 x 18cm. Contemporary tree calf with gilt spine and raised bands. Red label on one spine and the ghost of the label on the other. Collation: Vol. 1: [12], 318pp..Vol. 2: [8], 290pp. Original ink ownership inscription as purchased ...

Benjamin Franklin Facsimile Documents and Portrait

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) · 1858 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Köln, J.M. Heberle (H. Lempertz), 1858. Folio. 47 x 31 cm. Lithographed portrait by Lavater and two manuscripts, one a letter of acceptance of membership in the Academy of Padua, sent from Passy, France in 1782. Plate 46 from Bilder-Hefte zur Geschichte des Bücherhandels und d...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Illustrations by Leonard Lufkin

Franklin, Benjamin · 1975 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, [1975]. 8vo. 219 pp. Very good with marginal edgewear to boards. Hard cover. No dust jacket. Cloth spine over decorated paper boards. Illustrations by Leonard Lufkin. .

A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: A Facsimile of the Edition of 1741 Printed by Benjamin Franklin. (Limited to 1000 Copies)

Franklin, Benjamin; Edwin Wolf (intro.) · 1956 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, [1956]. 16mo. [ca 70 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed paper boards. Pages fine. Facsimile reprint. 1956. Facsimile reprint of 1741 original plus introduction by Wolf. Paperback, 56 pp. plus 12 page introduction. From the coll...

A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: A Facsimile of the Edition of 1741 Printed by Benjamin Franklin. (Limited to 1000 Copies)

Franklin, Benjamin; Edwin Wolf (intro.) · 1956 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, [1956]. 16mo. [ca 70 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed paper boards. Pages fine. Facsimile reprint. 1956. Facsimile reprint of 1741 original plus introduction by Wolf. Paperback, 56 pp. plus 12 page introduction. From the coll...

Apology for Printers

Franklin, Benjamin; Morris, Charles V. · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books

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New York: [Privately printed], 1967. 12mo. 33 pp. Blue paper-covered boards with gilt motif and lettering and beige gilt spine. Good with staining and rubbing along boards. Includes decorative blue endpapers and illustrated capitals. Frontis includes note: "This Keepsake is pu...

Franklin. It Is a Principle Among Printers That When Truth Has Fair Play, It Will Always Prevail over Falsehood. First Edition of the Rampant Lions Press Broadside

Franklin, Benjamin; Sebastian Carter, printer · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Cambridge, England: Rampant Lions Press , circa 1960s. Letterpress on rag paper watermarkd A. Millboard.Signed presenation copy to Raymond Gid.. "Statement of Editorial Policy" The Pennsylvania Gazette, 24 July 1740: It is a Principle among Printers that when Truth has fair Pl...

Address by Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, September 1787

Franklin, Benjamin; Wallace Kibbee (des.) · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

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San Francisco: Ben Franklin Press, 1960. 8vo. 4 pp. Very Good in Wraps with some staining, creasing. Cameo silhouette of Franklin on cover. Printed by Ben Franklin Press, San Francisco, in observance of Benjamin Franklin's birthday, January 17th, and of Printing Week, January ...

American Architect. July 1933

Betts, Benjamin Franklin and Carl V. Burger · 1933 · Wittenborn Art Books

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New York: American Architect, 1933. Folio. 144 pp. illus. Cover by Carl V. Burger. Contents: Photograph by John Kabel; Carnival Architecture by Arthur Woltersdorf; St. Paul City Hall and Ramsay County Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesota; Architectural Philately; Entrance, British ...

Benj. Franklin, Republican Printer, January 17, 1706-April 17, 1790

Franklin, Benjamin · 1959 · Wittenborn Art Books

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Berkeley, Calif.: Tamalpais Press, 1959. Extract from a letter, dated at Passy, August 19, 1784, reprinted from the Smyth Edition of Franklin's works in 99 copies for their friends of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by Stan Speck and Roger Levenson at the Tamalpais Press f...

MINIATURE: THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PRIMER

Franklin, Benjamin · 1996 · Books On The Boulevard

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Near Fine Old Farmhouse Books First Thus Limited #55/200 copies. Brown linen boards tight and straight. Gilt titles, b/w illust. Reproduction of the 1878 original edition. From publisher preface: A "good-natured satire" on primers and first reading books in use in American sch...