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American naval almanac for the year of our Lord, 1815; : being the third after leap year. / Calculated by Joshua Sharp. ; Containing, besides the usual matter of an almanac, some interesting particulars relative to the navy of the United States, and a variety of useful and entertaining articles. ; [One line of quotation].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 30675.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--War of 1812--Naval operations.
- United States.
- History.
- Sea control.
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1815.
- Physical Description:
- 64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia. : Published by R. & T. Desilver., [1814]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Though Sharp is named as the calculator on the title page, the calendar pages and eclipse predictions are in fact the work of William Collom. They duplicate those in Bailey's Rittenhouse almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia), calculated by Collom, except that they omit the ephemeris and the column of time equations.
- The mistake apparently arose because the publishers copied this material from Bennett & Walton's almanac for this year. In Bennett & Walton it consists of offprints from Bailey's, supplied by the printer Lydia R. Bailey. Bennett & Walton unintentionally carried over Sharp's name from their own previous issues, failing to substitute that of Collom. Sharp's own almanacs for 1815 are distinctly different from Collom's work in their calculations and notes.
- Title vignettes.
- The illustrations, engraved by Mason after Woodside, consist of five full page wood engravings of American naval engagements during the War of 1812, accompanying reports of these and other operations.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 30675).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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