Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year, 1748 : … 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. [Northern colonies ed.]

Name:

Saunders, Richard; Grew, Theophilus, -1759

Date:

1747

Language:

English

Publisher:

Printed and sold by B. Franklin

Relation:

Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): Middle colonies ed.: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34x55428

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; almanacs

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages; 17 cm (8vo)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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."; Signatures: [A]4 B2 C4 D2 E4 F2.; Curtis copy 373.1 in "Northern colonies state"; copy 373 for Middle colonies.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Curtis Collection, 373.1; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Curtis Collection, 373

Collection:

Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)