Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard … for the Year 1750

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon … For the Year of our Lord 1750 ... 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. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1749]

12mo (165 x 102 mm, uncut). Woodcut borders, anatomical man, and monthly panels; some browning and offsetting, stray spots, one or two closed marginal tears, longer closed tears neatly repaired. Stitched self-wrappers; some rubbing and soiling. Housed in custom slipcase, chemise.

First edition—the Rosenbach copy.

REFERENCES

Miller 469; ESTC ; Evans 6320; Hildeburn 1154; Drake 9716

PROVENANCE

A. S. W. Rosenbach (note laid in, "From the private library of A.S.W. Rosenbach.") — John Fleming