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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1760 : ... 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.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Davis, James (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1759]
- Notes:
- "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.
- The calculator was John Jerman. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages duplicate those in his American almanac for 1760 (Philadelphia). A few notes are added and a few omitted.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Oct. 4, 1759.
- Signatures: [A]4 B2 C4 D2 E4 F2.
- Cited in:
- Evans 8488
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9821
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 721
- OCLC:
- 187488247
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