Bonsal and Niles' town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1804. Being the bissextile or leap year and the twenty-eighth of American independence. : Calculated for the middle states. Containing ... : Also a great variety of selections, instructive and entertaining, in prose and verse. / The astronomical calculations by Abraham Shoemaker, of New York..

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shoemaker, Abraham.

Bonsal and Niles, printer.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American--Delaware.

Almanacs, American.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Physical Description:

[36] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1804

Place of Publication:

Wilmington [Del.] : Printed and sold by Bonsal & Niles, Market Street, [1803]

Contents:

(from t.p.) The rising, setting, places and eclipses of the sun and moon.

The southing, places, age and latitude of the moon.

Longitude of her ascending node.

The geocentric places and aspects of the planets.

The rising, setting and southing of the most conspicuous planets and fixed stars.

[P]assage of Alioth over the meridian.

The equation of time.

Sun's declination.

Judgment of weather.

Table shewing the value of dollars, from 1, to 10,000.

Table of weights and the value of coins.

Table of interest, at 6 per cent.

Table shewing the value of cents.

List of roads, and a general tide table for the United States.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley.

Athenaeum copy: Housed in protective folder.

Athenaeum copy missing p. [35]-[36]

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 3855

Drake, M. Almanacs, 1418