V. Franklin. Ego zhizn, obshchestv. i nauchnaia dieiatelnost

S.-Peterburg: Tipografiia tovarishchestva "Obshchestvennaia Polza", 1891. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [5], 6-79, [1]; beige wraps, printed in black; illustrated with portrait frontis of Benjamin Franklin; previous owner's personal stamp and manuscript note to front wrap; some loss of paper from head of spine (text block solid); in about very good condition.A well-written biography of Benjamin Franklin, it covered his childhood, his contributions to the American society and to the world before and after the Revolutionary War, his founding of the first public library in the US, etc.