Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon ... For the Year of our Lord 1763 ...

by Richard Saunders by Benjamin Franklin, printer

$17,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Woodcuts. 36 pp. Contemporary newspaper clipping mounted on the final page. 12mo. Disbound. Cloth box. Provenance: John Blakey early signature on the title ; Jay Snider booklabel on the box . Evans 9263; ESTC W29817; Miller 783; Campbell 671; Hildeburn 1383; Drake 9857. Item #378100 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

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.