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 from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. / By Richard Saunders, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Richard.

Grew, Theophilus, -1759.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5952.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1748.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin., [1747]

System Details:

text file

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 pages [30].

Three states noted by Miller, with varying contents on verso of leaf F1 (pages [34]), directed to readers in different localities.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1747, as to be published "Monday next."

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 5952).

Cited in:

Evans 5952

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9694

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 419

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