FRANKLIN BENJAMIN aka Richard Saunders Poor Richard Improved

Sale 2287 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 1,080

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, a.k.a. "Richard Saunders." Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1753. [16] of 18 leaves. 12mo, self-wrappers, disbound with later stitching; top 60% of title page lacking and restored in tasteful facsimile on recto, lacking bottom half of E4, lacking final two leaves F1 and F2, minimal dampstaining, date inked on title page. In a folding cloth case. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1752]

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Franklin makes a tongue-in-cheek boast about the accuracy of his weather predictions: "There's not a single one of them, promising snow, rain, hail, heat, frost, fogs, wind, or thunder, but what comes to pass punctually and precisely on the very day, in some place or other on this little diminutive globe of ours." Campbell, page 117; Church 983; Drake 9747; Evans 6845; Miller 552.