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Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1889 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 22 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 54. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1916 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 54.

London, Lockyer Davis, 1773. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 63, part 1. Including title-page of volume. Title-page reinforced in inner margin, otherwise a fine copy. Pp. (2), 41-48. First appearance of Franklin's report on affixing electrical conductors to five gunpowder magazines, a safeguard against the blowing up of a magazine by lightning. When the Purlfeet magazines were struck by lightning in 1777, the powder did not explode, and the buildings escaped serious damage (Weld, History of the Royal Society, 97).

Condizione: Folded, else Fine. A collection of sixteen letters written to John Hall Watson (18201901) from various family and friends shortly after Watson's departure for Europe in March or April of 1851. Correspondents are his brother, Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Watson (18261905); family friends John H. Kimball (??) and Joshua Foster Burgess (18271908); and his wife Elizabeth Merrill Watson (18291859). Frank Watson's letters, which total ten pages, highlight the group. Watson was a prominent attorney in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was appointed the town's Postmaster, elected City Solicitor, published the Democratic newspaper The Lawrence Sentinel, and was present as a Major in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment[1]the first unit in the Union Army to suffer casualties, when they were fired upon by civilians during the 1861 Baltimore riot. At this time, however, the younger Watson had not yet attained this level of success. Instead, he was a trial lawyer working under Daniel Saunders, Jr.son of one of Lawrence's founders, and later the city's mayorabout whom Watson has numerous complaints: "I hardly know what to say to you about my business and prospects I must confess that it seems to me that even if I remain in the law I had full as well separate from Saunders as to keep with him. He is selfish and grasping and has a powerful notion of his own importance and superiority which is decidedly more apparent to him than to any more distant observer. [.] I could put up with these things if I was getting a living from this business. It is clear that I am not there is nominally from 10 to 1500$ coming to me this year but I shall not see $500 of it between this and next January. Daniel is in want of all the money he can get his hands hold of and he takes it without rendering any account therefore on the books and I trust luck to find it out. This is not done for the purpose of [?] cheating me I presume but I have no doubt that it is intentionally done for the purpose of useing the amount without my knowledge so that I may consider myself bound to share everything I receive in. [.] I am not going to be bamboozled by the Saunders tribe any longer I am going to have my rights strictly, fully and as though they truly belonged to me or I am going to take a stand which will compel him to buy me out or remain in a very uncomfortable situation. [.] In the first place I am to devote every instant of time between 8 Oclock in the morning until 9 Oclock at night to the office business or else the office will have to be closed as I am of course the only one responsible in the concern." (May 11) Watson also provides his brother with much detail about the cases he was currently tryingnoting that "Daniel has only tried one case and got beat at that", while he "had 13 deposed of and only two have been decided" against him (April 26)including a fraud case in which: "the judge once or twice tried to resist me but let me go to the jury on my persisting on a right to do so, he then instead of charging argued for an hour and quarter against me, telling the jury in some many words that there were no evidence of fraud the jury went out at 2 ½ Oclock and came in at 10 ½ next morning with a verdict for me much to the chagrin of His Honor and much to the disappointment of the [opposing counsel] Wrights who offered to bet 50$ that they would get a verdict after the jury had gone out [.] The whole bar were tremendously tickled to see the jury go against the judge so. [.] The judge has been as good as honey to me ever since." (April 26) Despite fighting for the Union, Frank Watson was a Democrat, and comments on the April 1851 arrest of Thomas Sims: "There has since your departure been a great excitement in Boston on the arrest of one Sims a 'fugitive' the military were under arms during the trial which lasted over a week. He was safely taken off by water to Savannah where on landing the papers report that he made a speech thanking his stars that he had got out of the hands of the a.

London, C. Davis, 1753. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 47. First leaf detached, otherwise fine. Pp. 201-212. First appearance of this paper in which several of Franklin's most important electrical experiments are presented. An accomplished botanist, apothecary and electrical experimenter in his own right, Watson here summarizes "a few of the most singular" of Franklin's electrical experiments.