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You may recall my entry about Ben Franklin's book Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Just checked the reliable abebooks. The book is remarkably scarce. My choices are:

1. The Octavo Press CD-ROM facsimile, about $25;

2. The Octavo Press fancy super-scholarly ultra-facsimile, on three CD-ROMs, for $225;

3. Original copies, starting around $8000.

You'd think someone would have put an inexpensive edition into print, sometime in the past two and a half centuries. Else maybe the book is not as important as I thought.

Guess I'll hit a library. If I like the book enough, maybe I'll buy the CD-ROM...

Date: 2005-08-28 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gypsy1969.livejournal.com
Gack! for those prices you could hire someone to transcribe it and give you an in-depth analysis of it.

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