ROMAS, [Jacques de]. Mémoire, sur les moyens de se garantir de la Foudre dans les maisons; suivi d'une Lettre sur l'invention du Cerf-volant électrique, avec les pièces justificatives de cette même Lettre. Bordeaux: Chez Bergeret, and Paris, chez Pissot, 1776. In-12; 156p, [4p. Privilege, Errata], 2 folding plates.paperback as issued in glued paper covers, handwritten label on the spine; tears in the paper of the spine, a few pages browned, but a good copy entirely untrimmed. De Romas claims to have had the idea of the lightning rod before Benjamin Franklin, naming it the "electric flying stag". This is followed by supporting documents from page 145 onwards, including a report from the Academy of Sciences "Which prove that M. de Romas imagined the Electric Kite before M. Franklin". With a letter from Franklin in English and its translation. Very rare.