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1.
A dissertation on liberty and necessity, pleasure and pain ...

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Published / Created:
1725
Call Number:
Franklin 381 D63 1725
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Written when the author was 18, partly in answer to Wollaston's Religion of nature, and addressed to Mr. J(ames) R(alph) He printed, he says, only a hundred copies, of which he gave a few to his friends; and afterwards, disliking the piece, he burnt the rest except one copy.--J. Crossley in Notes and queries, ser. 1, v.5, p. 6 (Jan. 3, 1852)l9
Subject (Name):
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Imprints--1725.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A dissertation on liberty and necessity, pleasure and pain ...

2.
An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places: wherein their construction and manner of

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Published / Created:
1744
Call Number:
Franklin 381 Ac2 1744
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Book-plate of Henry Stevens of Vermont., Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned, A-E⁴ (E₂ numbered E₃; E₄ blank), SML,FRA 381 Ac2 +1744b: Negative photostat on 22 l. (22 x 28 cm.) each leaf showing confronting pages of original., and SML,FRA 381 Ac2 1744: Signatures wanting.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by B. Franklin.
Subject (Topic):
Fireplaces.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places: wherein their construction and manner of operation is particularly explained; their advantages above every other method of warming rooms demonstrated; and all objections that have been raised against the use of them, answered and obviated. With directions for putting them up, and for using them to the best advantage. And a copper-plate, in which the several parts of the machine are exactly laid down, from a scale of equal parts.

3.
Experiments and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America / by Mr. Benjamin

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Published / Created:
1751
Call Number:
Franklin 467 1751 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Mr. B. Franklin's letters on electricity
Description:
Cf. Ford, Franklin bibliography, nos. 77 and 93., No. 1 of 7 titles bound together., Part II published by Cave in 1753; title of pt. II reads: Supplemental experiments and observations on electircity [!] part II. Made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin, esp; and communicated in several letters to P. Collinson, esq; of London, F.R.S., Signatures: [A]² B-M⁴., and With a final leaf of advertisements.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by E. Cave, at St. John's Gate,
Subject (Name):
Brinley, George,--1817-1875--Ownership., Cave, Edward, 1691-1754, printer., Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Ms. notes., James Macdonald Co.--Binding, and Lloyd & Wallis
Subject (Topic):
Electricity--Early works to 1850.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Experiments and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America / by Mr. Benjamin Franklin ; and communicated in several letters to Mr. P. Collinson, of London, F.R.S.

4.
Poor Richard, 1737. An almanack for the year of Christ 1737, being the first after leap year

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Franklin 361 1737
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
On p. [6] of this almanac "Hints for those that would be rich" appears for the first time.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New printing-office near the market
Subject (Name):
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Imprints--1736.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poor Richard, 1737. An almanack for the year of Christ 1737, being the first after leap year ... Wherein is contained, the lunations, eclipses, judgment of the weather, spring tides, planets motions & mutual aspects, sun and moon's rising and setting, length of days, time of high water, fairs, courts, and observable days. Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Richard Saunders, philom. [pseud.]