Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1773 ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London. By Abraham Weatherwise, gent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tobler, John, 1696-1765

Language:

English

Physical Description:

36p. : ill. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by John Dunlap, at the newest-printing-office, in Market-Street, [1772]

Notes:

Calculated by John Tobler, and probably edited by a later hand. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical with those in his Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack for 1773 (Wilmington). The astronomical notes on these pages are also duplicated, but with many omissions and some additions.

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 packet, Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 1772.

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

Local Notes:

Library copy: - all after p.[32]

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 12607; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2837; Drake, M. Almanacs, 9974