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Endpaper detached with stamp of previous owner in purple ink. Pen signature of ? "Johnstone, Edinburgh" on half title page. Page numbers 112-113, 416-417 and 465-472 appear twice, advertisement and errata leaf bound between title page and preface, index appears after numbered pages. Overall a clean copy in a worn contemporary binding. The most desirable edition of the publication described as the "most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" in Printing and the Mind of Man.

About Experiments and Observations on Electricity