Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a...

(Franklin, Benjamin) Saunders, Richard, (pseudonym); Franklin, Benjamin; Grew, Theophilus. POOR RICHARD IMPROVED: BEING AN ALMANACK AND EPHEMERIS . . . FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1750. . . . FITTED TO THE LATITUDE OF FORTY DEGREES, AND A MERIDIAN OF NEAR FIVE HOURS WEST OF LONDON . . . Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1749]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo - 7" x 4". Original printed self-wrappers, uncut, bound in later brown morocco covered boards, spine gilt in compartments, with two tiny spots to front wrapper and minor spotting to back wrapper for what is an exceptional copy of the almanac. [36] pp. A fine example of Franklin's Poor Richard, replete with an essay blaming the printer for typographical errors in the 1749 edition. The entry for April features a discussion on Smallpox and Smallpox inoculations, ". . . it now begins to be thought rash to hazard it in the common Way, by which one in seven is generally lost; and impious to reject a Method discovered to Mankin