Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1769... : By Abraham Weatherwise, gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765, author.

Contributor:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Dawkins, Henry, -1786?, engraver.

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American.

Pennsylvania.

Almanacs, American--Pennsylvania--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1769.

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by John Dunlap, at the newest-printing-office, the south side of the Jersey Market, and three doors below Second-Street, [1768]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Calculated by John Tobler, probably with revisions by a later hand. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical with those in his Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack for 1769 (Wilmington). The notes are basically the same, but with many additions and omissions in Father Abraham. The eclipse calculations are by a different calculator.

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 1765 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler junior is the author.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Sept. 15, 1768, Postscript.

The frontispiece is signed: H.D. (Henry Dawkins).

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 11110

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9917

English Short Title Catalog, W36915.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.