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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49 Benjamin Franklin | An unusual double Library Company membership document

50 Benjamin Franklin | Recommending Strahan as the London book agent for the Library Company

51 Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1750

52 Benjamin Franklin | The work that led to the establishment of the University of Pennsylvania

55 Richard Peters (& Benjamin Franklin) | Inscribed by Franklin to a subscriber to the Academy of Philadelphia

59 Benjamin Franklin | “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”

60 (Benjamin Franklin) | The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital

62 Benjamin Franklin | The first French edition of Franklin's landmark work on electricity, evidently a presentation copy

65 (University of Pennsylvania) | Prayers for the Use of the Philadelphia Academy, owned by a descendent of Franklin

68 Benjamin Franklin | Wagons, horses, and teamsters for Braddock's Expedition

69 Roger More and Benjamin Franklin | The only complete copy known of Poor Roger

73 Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard ... for the year 1758 — the last of the series written by Franklin

74 Publius Vergilius Maro | Baskerville's Virgil, the gift of Benjamin Franklin to Francis Hopkinson

76 Benjamin Franklin | "God knows when we shall see… our Constitution settled firmly on the Foundations of Equity & English Liberty"

81 (Benjamin Franklin & Samuel Rhoads) | Presentation copy of Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital

88 Benjamin Franklin | An appointment for a Deputy Postmaster

95 William Franklin | A refutation of a "grossly false" charge against his father

96 Joseph Galloway | "in Vindication of my Character"

98 Benjamin Franklin | A subtly subversive franking signature: "B Free Franklin"

101 John Dickinson | Benjamin Franklin's copy

105 Benjamin Franklin | Perhaps the only letter to his wife in private hands

109 Benjamin Franklin | Franklin commissions the captain of an eponymous naval vessel

110 Benjamin Franklin | The rarest form of American Revolutionary military commission

113 William Franklin | Benjamin Franklin's Loyalist son laments his "present disagreeable Situation" in a Patriot prison

122 Benjamin Franklin | "Peace is the only Ingredient wanting to my Felicity"

129 Mary “Polly” Stevenson Hewson | "we may meet in America"

137 Benjamin Franklin | "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated"

141 (Benjamin Franklin) | A bequest to Boston, his birthplace