Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord, 1749. : .. 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Richard.

Grew, Theophilus, -1759.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6139.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1749.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall., [1748]

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].

Miller notes two impressions, and two states of the first impression.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1748.

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 6139).

Cited in:

Evans 6139

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9705

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9706

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 441

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 442

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