Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1781 ... 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:

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796

Saunders, Richard.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[36] p. : ill. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, [1780]

Notes:

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

All the almanacs published in Pennsylvania for 1781 except the American almanac contain the same calculations and have most of the same astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and are clearly the work of the same author. In some, the calculations for the sun are adjusted slightly for spring and autumn. The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its author is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse. It differs from the others only in having fewer notes and columns of calculations, as is usual with German-American almanacs.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Dec. 20, 1780.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 16988; Drake, M. Almanacs, 10116