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The Hagerstown town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1855 : being the third after bissextile or leap year, and the 77th of the independence of the United States : arranged after the system of the German calendars : containing the rising, setting, and eclipses of the sun and moon : the phases, places and southing of the moon, the aspects of the planets, the rising, setting and southing of the most conspicuous planets and fixed stars, the equation of time : with a variety of useful and entertaining matter, anecdotes, a list of courts, &c. &c. : carefully calculated for the horizon of Maryland, but will serve for the adjacent states, without material variation

Title
The Hagerstown town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1855 : being the third after bissextile or leap year, and the 77th of the independence of the United States : arranged after the system of the German calendars : containing the rising, setting, and eclipses of the sun and moon : the phases, places and southing of the moon, the aspects of the planets, the rising, setting and southing of the most conspicuous planets and fixed stars, the equation of time : with a variety of useful and entertaining matter, anecdotes, a list of courts, &c. &c. : carefully calculated for the horizon of Maryland, but will serve for the adjacent states, without material variation / original calculation by Charles F. Egelmann ; (Copy-right secured) ; the calculations of this almanack is made to solar or apparent time.
Publication
Hagerstown, Md. : Printed and sold by John Gruber, South Potomac street, where German almanacs are always had, [1854]

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Additional Authors
  • Egelmann, Charles F. (Charles Frederick)
  • Gruber, John, 1768-1857
  • Robertson, T. G.
  • Wagner, William, active 19th century
  • John Cushing & Co., bookseller.
Description
[30] pages : illustration; 20 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Alternative Title
J. Gruber's Hagers-town town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord 1855
Subject
  • Almanacs, American > 1855
  • Almanacs > Maryland > 1855
  • Astronomy > Early works to 1900
  • Astrology > Early works to 1900
  • Agriculture > Maryland > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Note
  • Parenthesis substituted for square brackets in title transcription.
  • Illustrated cover, signed W.W. (probably William Wagner).
  • "Orders for the 'Hagerstown Almanac' to be addressed to T.G. Robertson, Hagerstown, Md. Sold by John Cushing & Co. no. 6 N. Howard street, Baltimore."--recto of upper wrapper.
  • At head of title: No. XXXIV.
  • Last page contains a bookseller's advertisement by T.G. Robertson, "successor to William Stewart."
  • Signatures: A⁶ B³ C⁶.
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 317-A (Almanacs)
OCLC
52199107
Title
The Hagerstown town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1855 : being the third after bissextile or leap year, and the 77th of the independence of the United States : arranged after the system of the German calendars : containing the rising, setting, and eclipses of the sun and moon : the phases, places and southing of the moon, the aspects of the planets, the rising, setting and southing of the most conspicuous planets and fixed stars, the equation of time : with a variety of useful and entertaining matter, anecdotes, a list of courts, &c. &c. : carefully calculated for the horizon of Maryland, but will serve for the adjacent states, without material variation / original calculation by Charles F. Egelmann ; (Copy-right secured) ; the calculations of this almanack is made to solar or apparent time.
Publisher
Hagerstown, Md. : Printed and sold by John Gruber, South Potomac street, where German almanacs are always had, [1854]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 317-A (accession no. B628536) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Local Note
Copy in Sc Rare 317-A imperfect; lacking lower wrapper.
Copy in Sc Rare 317-A bound fourth in a volume of eight almanacs, with a typewritten sheet affixed to front pastedown of the volume listing the works in the volume.
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Added Author
Egelmann, Charles F. (Charles Frederick)
Gruber, John, 1768-1857, printer, bookseller.
Robertson, T. G., bookseller.
John Cushing & Co., bookseller.
Wagner, William, active 19th century, engraver.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Cover Title
J. Gruber's Hagers-town town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord 1855
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 317-A (Almanacs)
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