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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year, 1748. [electronic resource] : ... 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
- Author/Creator:
- Grew, Theophilus, d. 1759., Author.
- Saunders, Richard., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.
- Almanacs, English.
- Genre:
- Almanacs.
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1748.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([36]p. )
- Other Title:
- Poor Richard improved
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, [1747]
- 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 p. [30].
- Three states noted by Miller, with varying contents on verso of leaf F1 (p. [34]), directed to readers in different localities.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1747, as to be published "Monday next." -.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 5952
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9694
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 419
- English Short Title Catalog, W22783.
- OCLC:
- 511115857
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