The Continental pocket almanack for the year 1781. : ... Containing a variety of useful lists and tables. / By Anthony Sharp, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharp, Anthony.

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16975.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1781.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by Francis Bailey, in Market-Street, between Third and Fourth-Streets., [1781]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"Anthony Sharp" is a pseudonym found only in almanacs published by Bailey.

All the almanacs published in Pennsylvania for 1781 except The American almanac 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 some the calculations for the sun are adjusted slightly for spring and autumn. The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its author is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse. It differs from the others only in having fewer notes and columns of calculations, as is usual with German-American almanacs. In The Continental pocket almanac the times for the sun's rising and setting are combined.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 1781.

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 16975).

Cited in:

Evans 16975

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10107

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