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The Universal American almanack, or, Yearly astronomical, historical, and geographical magazine. : Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern provinces. For the year of our Lord 1763 ... / By Andrew Aguecheek, philom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 9050.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1763.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by and for Andrew Steuart, at the Bible-in-Heart, in Second-Street, near Black-Horse-Alley., [1762]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- The pseudonym Andrew Aguecheek is taken from the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth night.
- The astronomical notes on the calendar pages are mostly drawn from the Pennsilvania town and country-man's almanack for 1763 (Germantown) by John Tobler. The other calculations on these pages (sun, moon, and ephemeris) are not Tobler's.
- Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 1762.
- The Anatomy is the only illustration.
- Printers' advertisement, pages [30].
- 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 9050).
- Cited in:
- Evans 9050
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9858
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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