The Wilmington almanack, or ephemeris, 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 Thomas Fox, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Tobler, John, Jr.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15797.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Delaware -- 1779.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Wilmington [Del.], : Printed and sold by James Adams; who gives the highest price for clean linen and tow rags., [1778]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The calendar pages of the Wilmington almanack (1762-1794), except for the verse and prose matter, are identical line for line with the concurrent issues of the Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack (1764-1777) calculated by John Tobler. "Thomas Fox" is a pseudonym. Author's preface to the 1762 issue states that he had "for some years, observed those almanacks published in America," and had "formerly, in Europe," learned the use of Thomas Street's tables. Tobler was a Swiss immigrant. Though the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher's preface to the South-Carolina and Georgia almanack for 1764 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed for publication up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler junior is the author.

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 15797).

Cited in:

Evans 15797

Rink, E. Delaware, 117

Drake, M. Almanacs, 1364

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