The Universal American almanack: or, Yearly astronomical magazine. : Fitted to the lat: of 40 degrees and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. : For the year of our Lord, 1760... / By Andrew Aguecheek, Esq; philom.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 8291.

Language:

English

Genre:

• Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1760.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by William Bradford, at the London Coffeehouse; and Andrew Steuart in Laetitia-Court., [1759]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• The pseudonym Andrew Aguecheek is taken from the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Cf. the preface.
• The actual calculator was John Tobler. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical throughout with those in his Pennsylvania town and countryman's almanack for 1760 (Germantown).
• Advertised in the Pennsylvania journal, Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 1759. A second edition was advertised Oct. 25.
• 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 8291).

Cited in:

• Evans 8291
• Drake, M. Almanacs, 9822

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