Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1770 [electronic resource] : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London. ... By Abraham Weatherwise, gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765., Author.

Contributor:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765.

Dawkins, Henry, d. 1786?, engraver.

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Almanacs, American.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1770.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([36]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1770

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, [1769]

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 1770 (Wilmington). The notes are basically the same, but with many additions and omissions in Father Abraham.

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, Oct. 5, 1769.

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

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 11521

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9928

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2493

English Short Title Catalog, W8281.

OCLC:

510933957