The South-Carolina & Georgia almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1789: being the first after leap year, and the thirteenth year of American independence. : Containing lunations, eclipses, rising and setting of the sun, aspects, judgement of the weather, &c. : Also, a general description of the state of South-Carolina, its officers, city establishment, courts held in Charleston, return day[s], rates of coin[,] tide table, scale of depreciation, charges on transacting business, as agreed to by the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, premiums voted by the Agricultural Society, &c. : [Two lines from The rural Christian].

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21504.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Carolina--Description and travel.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Almanacs -- South Carolina -- 1789.

Physical Description:

26 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Charleston [S.C.]: : Printed Markland & M'Iver, No. 47, Bay., [1788]

Notes:

Attributed by Evans to John Tobler, presumably because most of the other issues in this series bear his name, but probably correctly. The calculations for the rising and setting of the moon are identical throughout with those in the Wilmington almanac or ephemeris for 1789 (Wilmington, Del.), and the eclipse predictions have the same wording in an abbreviated form. From 1764 to 1777 and probably until 1794, the Wilmington almanack contained Tobler's calculations under the pseudonym of Thomas Fox. Most of the calculations in the present almanac differ from those in Wilmington because of the difference in meridian.

Although the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher's preface to the South-Carolina and Georgia almanack for 1764 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed for publication up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler junior is the author.

Another edition (Gould & Morgan 893; not in Evans or Bristol) differs somewhat in content.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21504).

Cited in:

Evans 21504

Gould & Morgan. South Carolina, 892

Drake, M. Almanacs, 13145

OCLC:

55811597