Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1769 : .. 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.

Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11064.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1769.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by D. Hall, and W. Sellers., [1768]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

Calculated by John Tobler. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical with those in his Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack for 1769 (Wilmington), except that many notes have been added. The eclipse predictions (pages [31]) are also duplicated.

Though the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher's preface to the South Carolina and Georgia almanack for 1765 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler Junior is the author.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Aug. 25, 1768.

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 11064).

Cited in:

Evans 11064

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9924

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