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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1766 : .. Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. / By Richard Saunders, philom.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 10161
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10161.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1766.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall., [1765]
- Notes:
- "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.
- Calculated by John Tobler. The calculations and most of the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical with those in his Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack for 1766 (Germantown). Some notes have been added and a few omitted, and there are different notes on the length of day.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, July 11, 1765.
- Printer's advertisement, p. [31].
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10161).
- Cited in:
- Evans 10161
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9890
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 852
- OCLC:
- 55819246
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