Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1781
Subtitle: ... 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: By Richard Saunders, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16988
Publisher: Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
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.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C-E⁴.

Evans 16988

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10116