Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), owned:
The universal gardener & botanist or, a general dictionary of gardening & botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnæan system, every tree, shrub, & herbaceous plant by John Abercrombie
The families of plants : with their natural characters, according to the number, figure, situation, & proportion of all parts of fructification by Carl von Linné
Arbustrum Americanum = The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees & shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system. Containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple, & familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species & varieties; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, & domestic oeconomy by Humphry Marshall
Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnæi ... An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus by Johann Sebastian Mueller
Speculations on the perceptive power of vegetables addressed to the Literary & Philosophical Society of Manchester by Thomas Percival
Hortus botanicus vindobonensis, seu Plantarum rariorum, quae in Horto botanico vindobonensi ... coluntur, icones coloratæ et succinetæ descriptiones by Freiherr Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
Floræ parisiensis prodromus, ou Catalogue des plantes qui naissent dans les environs de Paris, rapportées sous les dénominations modernes & anciennes, & arrangées suivant la méthode séxuelle de M. Linnaeus. Avec l'explication en françois de tous les termes de la nouvelle nomenclature by Thomas François Dalibard
Histoire naturelle de la france méridionale by Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par lo̓rdre du roy sur les côtes orientales de lA̓merique méridionale, & dans les Indes Occidentales, depuis la̓nnée 1707. jusques en 1712 by Louis Feuillée
Travels through the interior parts of North America in the years 1766, 1767, & 1768 by Jonathan Carver
Franklin was a Pennsylvania printer, author, inventor, ambassador, scientist, statesman, abolitionist. Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, a founder of the Library Company of Philadelphia and of the first fire department in Pennsylvania, among many other accomplishments.
Franklin's extensive library is documented in Edwin Wolf 2nd and Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society and Library Company of Philadelphia, 2006
