The American almanack for the year of Christian account, 1739. : ... Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of 5 hours west from London, but may, without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. / By Titan Leeds, philomat.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Leeds, Titan, 1699-1738.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4259.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1739.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Other Title:

Genuine Leeds almanack.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Andrew Bradford, at the Sign of the Bible in Front-Street., [1738]

Notes:

Publisher's preface, signed W.B. and A.B. (William and Andrew Bradford) states that in 1738, in anticipation of his death, Leeds calculated almanacs "for seven years to come ... of which copies this present diary is one." William Bradford was Leeds' New York publisher.

At head of title: Leeds coat of arms with scroll reading: The genuine Leeds almanack.

Advertised in the American weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, Sept. 14/21, 1738, as "now in the press."

The Anatomy is the only illustration in the text.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4259).

Cited in:

Evans 4259

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 581

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9606

OCLC:

55842224