FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Correspondance Inedite et Secrete Du Docteur B. Franklin

FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Correspondance Inedite et Secrete Du Docteur B. Franklin, Ministre Plenipotentiaire Des Etats-Unis D'Amerique Pre La Cour De France, Depuis L'Annee 1753 Jusqu'En 1790....

Paris. 1817. Two volumes. vi,542; viii,480pp. plus frontispiece portrait and folding facsimile.

First edition, published in Paris, of the correspondence of Benjamin Franklin during his time as American Minister to France. A piracy of Duane's edition of Franklin's correspondence, translated and edited by Charles Malo.

From Catalog IV

Franklin's diplomatic letters from the years of the alliance, published in Paris a generation after his death. The French had kept the Passy correspondence with a care the Americans had not, and much of what we know about how the alliance was made came first from this edition.