Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon ... For the Year of our Lord 1755 ...

by Richard Saunders by Benjamin Franklin

$17,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Woodcuts. 36 pp. 12mo. Disbound, trimmed close just touching outer borders and tops of headlines. Cloth box. Evans 7196; ESTC W22789; Miller 586; Campbell 527; Hildeburn 1383; Drake 9766; Church 997. Item #378099 A rare example of Benjamin Franklin's most enduring publication. The first Poor Richard almanac was printed in 1732; the early almanacs are extremely rare, and all prior to 1758, Franklin's last year as author and publisher, are

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