Poor Richard improved : being an almanack and ephemeris of the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising and setting of the sun, and the rising, setting and southing of the moon, for the year of our Lord 1758: being the second after leap-year ... / by Richard Saunders, philom.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American.

Ephemerides--Early works to 1800.

Ephemerides.

Success.

Maxims.

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1758.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Edition:

Facsim. edition.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Notes:

Remainder of title: Containing also, the lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, judgment of the weather, rising and setting of the planets, length of days and nights, fairs, courts, roads, &c. Together with useful tables, chronological observations, and entertaining remarks. 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.

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym for Benjamin Franklin.

"This facsimile edition of the original in the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia was printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office to commemorate the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, 2006" --P. [36].

Shipping list no.: 2006-0167-P.

OCLC:

69650711