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The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
3 June - 24 June 2026 • New York
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1. Thomas Prince, et al. | One of the first books Franklin had a hand in printing

2. Ellis Pugh | Printed while Franklin was working in Keimer's printing-house

3. Titan Leeds | The American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account, 1728

4. Pennsylvania General Loan Office | Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing

5. John Paschall | Receipt book with six endorsements signed by Benjamin Franklin

6. John Jerman | The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands

7. (Johann Conrad Beissel) | A Sammelband of two of Benjamin Franklin's rarest imprints

8. Alexander Arscot | First American edition of this Quaker text, a Franklin imprint, rarely found complete in three volumes

10. Benjamin Franklin | An extremely rare Franklin pamphlet, the only complete copy of the two extant

11. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard … for the year 1736

12. Benjamin Franklin | One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters

13. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1739

14. Charles Woolverton | A rare Quaker tract printed by Franklin

15. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1740

16. Pennsylvania General Assembly | Session laws spanning thirty years

17. Pennsylvania | A collection of early Pennsylvania charters and acts, printed by Franklin

18. Ralph Erskine | First American edition, printed by Franklin, of this book of religious verse

19. George Whitefield | A rare Franklin imprint featuring Whitefield's critique of the treatment of slaves

20. Pennsylvania and Delaware | Two foundational documents for Penn's colonies, printed by Franklin

21. Gilbert Tennent | A rare Presbyterian tract relating to the Old Side–New Side controversy, printed by Franklin

22. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1743
![[United Brethren] | The Congregation of God in the Spirit](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/89b32e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1581x2000+0+0/resize/150x190!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F45%2F52%2Fa689629e429aa53a810710ea1a02%2Fn12185-dgb8x-t2-02.jpg)
23. [United Brethren] | The Congregation of God in the Spirit
![[United Brethren] — Johann Adam Gruber | "A thorough exhortation and summons to the formerly awakened souls of this land …"](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0b476d1/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1584x2000+0+0/resize/150x189!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F89%2F90%2Fd61f4a93495090c89ab6459e530b%2Fn12185-dgb8y-t2-02.jpg)
24. [United Brethren] — Johann Adam Gruber | "A thorough exhortation and summons to the formerly awakened souls of this land …"
![[Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf] — A response to an anonymous anti-Moravian tract, printed by Franklin](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/737350c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1311x2000+0+0/resize/150x229!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F70%2F8c%2F062d29704dbd87aee357c54bcd57%2Fn12185-dgb93-t2-02.jpg)
25. [Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf] — A response to an anonymous anti-Moravian tract, printed by Franklin

26. Jonathan Edwards | A rare Franklin imprint written in defense of early evangelicalism

27. (Benjamin Franklin) | Fulfilling a civic responsibility

28. Benjamin Franklin | God and Man and Franklin and Mather at Yale

29. Baptist Association | The first Baptist Confession printed in the United States, a Franklin imprint

30. Pennsylvania. Indian Treaty (Lancaster) | A brilliant copy of an Indian Treaty marking "a great diplomatic defeat for the French"

31. Marcus Tullius Cicero | "Next to the almanacs ... probably Franklin's best known publication"

32. John Estaugh | A rare Quaker tract printed by Benjamin Franklin

33. Thomas Cadwalader | An important, early American medical work on lead poisoning, printed by Franklin

34. Benjamin Franklin | A Pocket Almanack for the Year 1746

35. (John Armstrong) | An exceedingly rare Franklin imprint

36. Benjamin Franklin | A Pocket Almanack for the Year 1747

37. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year of Christ 1747—an early and scarce issue

38. George Whitefield | Five of George Whitefield's most popular American sermons, printed by Benjamin Franklin

39. (Benjamin Franklin) | A very rare work written and printed by Franklin, containing "the earliest American political cartoon"

40. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1748

41. New Jersey | A Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey, with three of the earliest American maps of the region

42. Abel Morgan | Anti-Paedo-Rantism, 1747
![[Richard Blackmore]. Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio, a 1747 Franklin Imprint](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/57cd866/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1581x2000+0+0/resize/150x190!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F45%2F9c%2F1c9420b74bfab91309c503280882%2Fn12185-dgbcv-t2-02.jpg)
43. [Richard Blackmore]. Letters between Theophilus and Eugenio, a 1747 Franklin Imprint

44. New Jersey Session Laws | Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1747-48, printed by Franklin

45. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard … for the Year 1749

46. William Currie | A Treatise On the Lawfulness of Defensive War

47. Gilbert Tennent | A lengthy anti-Quaker treatise by a controversial Presbyterian minister
![[John Smith] | The Doctrine of Christianity, as Held by the People called Quakers](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0081c90/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1381x2000+0+0/resize/150x217!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fbd%2F84%2F556f348d44169522db01c5825386%2Fn12185-dgbcy-t2-02.jpg)
48. [John Smith] | The Doctrine of Christianity, as Held by the People called Quakers

49. Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard … for the Year 1750