The American almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1783. ... Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees north, and near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve the northern states. By Father Jacobus Bumbo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobus Bumbo., Author.

Contributor:

Briggs, Isaac, 1763-1825

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[36] p. : ill. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by T. Bradford, in Front-Street, four doors below the coffee house, [1782]

Notes:

The author of the calculations was Isaac Briggs, then a tutor at Pennsylvania College, who calculated Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calendar for 1783, published at Lancaster. All of the Pennsylvania almanacs for this year have the same calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages (with additions and some omissions) as the Nord-Americanische Calendar, which alone names a real person as its author.

Samuel Stearns, the Massachusetts calculator, states: "I observed at Philadelphia, in 1783, that a number of almanacks were published from one calculation, under fictitious names, as Father Abraham, Poor Will, Poor Richard, &c.; but could not learn who was the author. The same calculation was also published in the Jersies, under some other name."--The American oracle (New York, 1791), p. 44.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania journal, Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 1782.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 17486; Drake, M. Almanacs, 10138