The Bagatelles from Passy: Text and FacsimileEakins Press, 1967 - 188 Seiten These delightfully humorous writings of Benjamin Franklin were created and printed for his lady friends while he was stationed in Paris as the first American ambassador to France. This exact replica is the first full facsimile of a unique copy of The Bagatelles, a treasure of the Yale University Library. |
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... letter to a Paris newspaper , signed by a " lady correspond- ent , " about efforts to discover a new air to lift bal- loons . In it he said : " If you want to fill your balloons with an element ten times lighter than inflammable air ...
... letter to a Paris newspaper , signed by a " lady correspond- ent , " about efforts to discover a new air to lift bal- loons . In it he said : " If you want to fill your balloons with an element ten times lighter than inflammable air ...
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... LETTER on Wine sent to Abbé Morellet has the character of a Bagatelle , though Franklin did not print it on his private press . With its cascade of partly untranslatable puns ( vin , wine ; deviner , to guess at , to soothsay ; divin ...
... LETTER on Wine sent to Abbé Morellet has the character of a Bagatelle , though Franklin did not print it on his private press . With its cascade of partly untranslatable puns ( vin , wine ; deviner , to guess at , to soothsay ; divin ...
Seite 85
... letter on Wine , which includes a reference to the theory of a primitive , universal language espoused by their common friend Court de Gébelin in his Monde Primitif . The illustrations accompanying the letter were drawn by one of ...
... letter on Wine , which includes a reference to the theory of a primitive , universal language espoused by their common friend Court de Gébelin in his Monde Primitif . The illustrations accompanying the letter were drawn by one of ...
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