FRANKLIN, Doctor B. Unpublished and secret correspondence of Doctor B. Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Court of France, from the year 1753 to 1790; offering, in three complete and distinct parts, 1° The Memoirs of his private life; 2° The first Causes of the Revolution in America; 3° The History of the various negotiations between England, France and the United States. Published for the first time, in France, with Notes, Additions, etc. Paris: Janet Pere, Egron Imprimeur, Cordier Imprimeur, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes in-8; T.I: vi, 542p., frontispiece portrait of Franklin. T.II: viii, 480p, folding facsimile of a letter from Franklin to Prahan placed in frontispiece. Bound in contemporary half-basin, marbled endpapers and edges; some foxing, spine partly detached.