Poor Richard's Rhode-Island almanack for the year of our Lord 1789 : ... Calculated for the meridian of Newport, in New England, latitude 41$ 27' n. Containing the useful and the agreeable. / Compiled for his country's benefit, by Poor Richard.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.

Thornton, Elisha, 1748-1816.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21400.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1789.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Newport, R.I.] : Printed by Peter Edes, and sold wholesale and retail, at his office in Thames-Street., [1788]

Notes:

The calculations on the calendar pages duplicate those in An almanack for ... 1789 ... by Elisha Thornton, also published by Edes. The calculations in the eclipse notes are likewise identical; but the penultimate paragraph, on the transit of Mercury, appears identically in The New-England almanack, and gentlemen & ladies diary, for 1789, by Edmund Freebetter [i.e., Nathan Daboll]. The astronomical notes on the calendar pages seem in large part to combine those of Daboll and Thornton.

Advertised in the Newport herald, Nov. 27, 1788.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21400).

Cited in:

Evans 21400

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12902

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1108

OCLC:

55814811