The Philadelphia almanack for the year 1779 : Calculated for Pensylvania and the neighbouring parts. : To which is added some useful tables.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16012.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1779.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages ; 10 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1778]

Notes:

With the exception of the Hoch-deutsch-americanische Calender, all the almanacs published in Pennsylvania for 1779 contain the same calculations and have most of the same astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and are clearly the work of the same author. (In the almanacs published at Lancaster, the calculations for the sun and a few for the bright stars are adjusted slightly in the autumn months.) The only almanac naming a real person as its calculator is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse.

Engraved throughout. Evans identifies the engraver as John Norman.

Title vignette.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16012).

Cited in:

Evans 16012

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10077

OCLC:

55812313