Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Discours sur L'Economie Politique ...
Geneva: s.n., 1760.
Signatures: [A]-C[superscript 12]D[superscript 5].
HSP in LCP.
Benjamin Franklin's copy.
Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf and continued on title in William Temple Franklin’s hand; brief pencil note at end by Franklin; purchased from Dufief, 1801– 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (143); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner. Provenance
Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator. Provenance
Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner. Provenance
Dufief, N. G. (Nicolas Gouin), 1776?-1834, bookseller. Provenance
Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner. Provenance
Imprint SWITZERLAND. Geneva. 1760.
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