Books+ Search Results

Hutchins improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1799 ..

Title
Hutchins improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1799 ... / By John Nathan Hutchins, philom.
Published
New-York: : Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at his printing-office, at the Bible, in Pearl-Street. Where may be had, the New-York pocket almanack., [1798]
Physical Description
[36] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Local Notes
BEIN Ayb32 N5 H972 1799: Imperfect: 18th l. mutilated.
Notes
Hutchins died in 1782, and the calculator of the present almanac is Andrew Beers. The eclipse predictions (slightly lengthened), the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages (with a few omissions), and the calculationms for the rising and setting of the moon, are identical with those in his Beers's almanac for 1799, published at Hartford. The other calculations vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between Hartford and New York. An advertisement for Beers's surveying business appears on p. [34].
Two states of gathering E noted, with E3 verso and E4 containing different texts. In one, E3 verso begins: Courts in the state of New-York. In the other, E3 verso begins with the text: Some ancient philosophers have said ...
Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F².
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
Booksellers' advertisement for Gaine and Philip Ten Eyck, p. [3].
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 33920
Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, 6083
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Almanacs.
Booksellers' advertisements.
Advertisements - Surveying.
Citation

Available from:

Loading holdings.
Unable to load. Retry?
Loading holdings...
Unable to load. Retry?