Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1779
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. 16067
Publisher: Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers.
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

With the exception of the Hoch-Deutsch-Americanische Calender, all the almanacs published in Pennsylvania in 1779 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 those published in Lancaster, the calculations for the sun and a few for the bright stars are adjusted slightly in the autumn months.) The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its calculator is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1778.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F².

Evans 16067

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10079