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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year, 1748 : ... 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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Curtis Collection 373.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, [1747]
- Notes:
- At head of title: Note, this almanack us'd to contain but 24 pages, and now has 36; yet the price is very little advanc'd.
- "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.
- Probably calculated by Theophilus Grew. An advertisement for his school of mathematics appears on p. [30].
- Three states noted by Miller, with varying contents on verso of leaf F1 (p. [34]), directed to readers in different localities.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1747, as to be published "Monday next."
- Signatures: [A]4 B2 C4 D2 E4 F2.
- Local Notes:
- Curtis copy 373.1 in "Northern colonies state"; copy 373 for Middle colonies.
- Cited in:
- Evans 5952
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9694
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 419
- OCLC:
- 63662385
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