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Poor Job, 1750. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1750. ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Four lines of verse]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1749 She Aja.363
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [24]p. : ill. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- Newport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1749]
- Notes:
- The preface shows 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.
- The Anatomy is the only illustration.
- Local Notes:
- Library copy: Tp. mutilated. -all after p.22
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 6414; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 85; Drake, M. Almanacs, 12799
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