Research Catalog

Title

The Virginia almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1794 : Being the second after leap year. And the eighteenth of American independence / calculated by the ingenious self taught astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, a black man.

Author

Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806

Publication

• [Petersburg, Va.] : [Publisher not identified], [1794?]
• Petersburg : Printed by William Prentis, [179 4?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Prentis, William, -1824
• Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History bookplate.

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : tables; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Series Statement

In his Works, C

Subject

• Almanacs > Early works to 1800
• Almanacs, American > Early works to 1800
• Almanacs

Genre/Form

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-803 [pt. 3].

Call Number

Sc Rare 317-B (Banneker, B. Virginia almanack)

OCLC

28628203

Author

Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806, creator.

Title

The Virginia almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1794 : Being the second after leap year. And the eighteenth of American independence / calculated by the ingenious self taught astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, a black man.

Publisher

[Petersburg, Va.] : [Publisher not identified], [1794?]

Manufacturer

Petersburg : Printed by William Prentis, [179 4?]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

In his Works, C

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 740, column 2, row 1

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-803 [pt. 3].

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is one of the items acquired or added to the Schomburg collection (July 19, 1937 -- G.K. Halls) during Catherine A. Latimer & Arthur A. Schomburg's times as collection librarian & curator. Imperfect: disbound, lacks the NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," that's associated with books from that period, treated, each leaf encapsulated or reinforced with Japanese tissue paper, rebound in blue cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine. It includes an NYPL's 1940's onward bookplate of: "The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History"; and inscribed in inks on the cover, and manuscript notations on the pages for February, March, June, November, and December, & also a page of additional manuscript notation page between June and July which contains a medicinal instruction "giving by the Rev. [Wm.?] [Prichett?] July 17th, [17]94."

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Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

United States Virginia Petersburg.

Added Author

Prentis, William, -1824, printer.

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History bookplate.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 317-B (Banneker, B. Virginia almanack)