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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1801 [microform] : ... 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 states. / By Richard Saunders, philom

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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Hall & Sellers--no. 51--Market Street, [1800]
Physical Description
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
Additional Creators
Saunders, Richard and Shoemaker, Abraham
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"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.
Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1800.
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
The calculator was Abraham Shoemaker. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical with those in The New Jersey and Pennsylvania almanac for 1801 (Trenton), by Shoemaker. There are fewer columns of calculations, and different notes for the length of day. Shoemaker's eclipse predictions are repeated on p. [28].
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Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38464).
Reviewed/Cited In
Drake, M. Almanacs, 10563
Evans, C. American bibliography, 38464
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