Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1777 : being the first after leap-year : containing the motions of the sun and moon, the true places and aspects of the planets, the rising and setting of the sun, and the rising, setting and southing of the moon : also the lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, judgment of the weather, rising and setting of the planets, length of days and nights, &c. &c. : fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London / by Abraham Weatherwise, gent. ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796, other.

Dawkins, Henry, -1786?, engraver.

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Almanacs, American.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Relief prints.

Almanacs.

Physical Description:

36 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

e,n, n.n, ."t, 3130 (7) 1776 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by John Dunlap, at the newest-printing-office, in Market-Street., [1776]

Notes:

"Our kind customers are requested to observe, that the ingenious David Rittenhouse, A.M. of this city, has favoured us with the astronomical calculations of our almanack for this year, therefore they may be most firmly relied on."--Title leaf.

"Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1776."--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C-F⁴/².

Woodcut illustrations. "The frontispiece is by Henry Dawkins, whose initials are obscured in this printing of the cut."--ESTC.

Title within triple-ruled border; text within double-ruled border.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from William Reese Company.

Kislak Center copy: "Illustrated self-wrappers, stitched. Light soiling on wrappers ... untrimmed [edges]"--Bookseller's description.

Cited in:

ESTC W29777

Evans 15062

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3494

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10034

OCLC:

207709147