[Rarebooks] FS: Benjamin Franklin Signed APS Membership

[Deborah Thornton Pendleton]

For Your Consideration.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; Philadelphia, 20 January 1786. 1 p. Folio, partly 
printed document; Signed. American Philosophical Society membership 
certificate partially filled in with manuscript for the "Reverend Mr. 
Henry Muhlenberg of Lancaster," SIGNED by Franklin, as President of the 
Society, (the top signature at the lower right). Also signed by 7 
additional members of this internationally esteemed group of men and 
women of science and ideas.

"Mr. Henry Muhlenberg of Lancaster" was born Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst 
Muhlenberg (1753-1815), the son of Reverend Heinrich Melchior 
Muhlenberg, Sr., the noted patriarch of Luthrenism in America. Henry was 
a noted botanist and the first President of Franklin College, (now 
Franklin & Marshall College). Other signatures, members of the APS, 
include John Ewing, William White, John Foulke, James Hutchinson, Sam 
Morgan, James Vaughn, and R. Patterson. Signatures strong and dark. With 
blue silk ribbon and white paper seal stamped in blind, at the bottom 
center, between the two columns of signatures. Old stain at base of 
matting, and paper lightly toned, otherwise a very good example of this 
scarce and interesting document. Framed. $10,500


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