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Poor Will's almanack, for the year 1817 : being the first after bissextile or leap year.

Title
Poor Will's almanack, for the year 1817 : being the first after bissextile or leap year.
Publication
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, No. 256, North Third Street, [1816]

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Additional Authors
  • Sharp, Joshua.
  • Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860
Description
[36] pages : illustration; 19 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Almanacs > Pennsylvania > 1816
  • Almanacs, American > 1816
  • Astrology > Early works to 1900
  • Astronomy > Early works to 1900
Note
  • Presumably printed in 1816 for publication in 1817.
  • Calculated by Joshua Sharp. All the calculations and astronomical and meteorological notes on the calendar pages, together with the preceding eclipse predictions, duplicate those in Bailey's Rittenhouse almanac for 1817, by Sharp, and the other Philadelphia almanacs for this year bearing his name.
  • Title vignette depicts a pastoral scene, with a man fishing beneath a tree, next to two horses. The Anatomy is the only other illustration.
  • Signatures: [A]² B⁶ 1⁴ 2² C⁴.
Indexed In (note)
  • Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States
  • Shaw, R.R. American bibliography
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 317-A (Almanacs)
OCLC
52199120
Title
Poor Will's almanack, for the year 1817 : being the first after bissextile or leap year.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, No. 256, North Third Street, [1816]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, 11135
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 51620
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 final leaf C4 (pages [35]-[36]).
Copy in Sc Rare 317-A bound second 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
Sharp, Joshua.
Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860, printer, bookseller.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 317-A (Almanacs)
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