Poor Will's almanack, for the year of Christian account, 1743 : ... Calculated from Caroline tables according to art, and referred to the meridian of Philadelphia, whose pole is elevated forty degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error serve all the provinces adjacent, even from Boston in New-England, to Williamsburg in Virginia. / By William Birkett...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birkett, William, 1688- author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4893.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1743.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Andrew Bradford, at the Sign of the Bible, in Front-Street, near High-Street., [1742]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Drake entry 9639 (for The American almanack) is based on an imperfect copy of the present title.

Two states of gathering C noted. Page [24] of one contains "A description of the highways and roads." Page [24] of the other contains "Courts in Maryland."

Advertised in the American weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, Oct. 21/28, 1742.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 4893).

Cited in:

Evans 4893

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 751

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9648

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9639

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