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Poor Job's country and townsman's almanack for the year of our Lord 1758. ... Calculated for the vertex of the colony of Rhode-Island, but without any perceivable error, may serve even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd. ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1757 She Aja.363
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shepherd, Job 14376
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [16]p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- Newport, Rhode-Island : Printed by J. Franklin, [1757]
- Notes:
- The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 8037; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 178; Drake, M. Almanacs, 12805
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