Taylor, 1726. A compleat ephemeris for the year of Christ 1726. : ... Calculated and fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees north, and a meridian five hours (75 degrees) west from London, serving Pennsylvania, and the parts adjacent. / By Jacob Taylor, to which is added, by another hand, calculations and infallible predictions on the eclipse of the sun, &c. .. with several other useful, informing, and diverting subjects, not to be found in any other almanack in America.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jacob, -1746.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2708.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1726.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by Samuel Keimer, and sold by Mary Rose, Sarah Read, Jacob Shoemaker, in Market-Street, by Nath. Edgecome in Second-Street, and by Eleazer Philips in Charles-Town in New-England, and by other shopkeepers in Philadelphia, Burlington, New-York, Newcastle, and Anapolis [sic]., [1725]

Notes:

Taylor disowned this almanac in an advertisement in The American weekly Mercury, Jan. 18/25, 1726, though admitting that the astronomical portion was his work.

Another advertisement, alleging slander and threatening prosecution, was published by Aaron Goforth in the Mercury for Dec. 28/Jan. 4.

Printer's advertisement, p. [48].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2708).

Cited in:

Evans 2708

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9518

OCLC:

55826000