The Lancaster almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1779 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. / By Anthony Sharp, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharp, Anthony.

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16054.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1779.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lancaster [Pa.]: : Printed by Francis Bailey, who is removed from the north to the south-side of King's-Street, a few doors below the market., [1778]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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

Calculated by David Rittenhouse. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages duplicate those in his Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender for 1779, also published by Bailey. The Lancaster almanack adds notes on the day's length, times of the moon's southing, and an ephemeris.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1778.

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 16054).

Cited in:

Evans 16054

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3808

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10073

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