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.

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.

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, [1747]

[36]p. ; 8vo.

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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.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F²

Evans, C. American bibliography, 5952
Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, 9694
Miller, C.W. Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia printing, 1728-1766, 419
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W22783

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

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