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Poulson's town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1800 ..
Title
Poulson's town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1800 ... [electronic resource]
Published
--Philadelphia:-- : Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut Street, between Third and Fourth-Streets, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America., [1799]
Physical Description
[48] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Local Notes
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Notes
Calculated by Abraham Shoemaker. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, as well as the eclipse predictions on p. [2], duplicate those in his New Jersey and Pennsylvania almanac for 1800 (Trenton). Columns are added for the moon's age and the sun's declination.
The Anatomy, as the title vignette, is the only illustration.
"A list of the births and deaths in the several religious societies in the city of Philadelphia, from May 1, 1798 to May 1, 1799."--p. [2].
"A comparative statement of the number of deaths which occurred each day in the city of Philadelphia, from the first of August to the fifth of November, in the years 1793, 1797 and 1798, during the prevalence of the contagious pestilential fever."--p. [3].
The calendar pages include a daily record of weather and temperature for 1798.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 36148).
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Other formats
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2006
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 36148
Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, 10535
Subjects
Genre/Form
Almanacs - Pennsylvania - 1800.
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United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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