Poor Will's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1804: : being bissextile or leap-year. Containing the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising, setting, and declination of the sun; the rising, setting, and southing of the moon; the lunations, conjunctions, and eclipses; rising, setting, and southing of the planets, and noted fixed stars; the equation of time; time of high water, morn. and even. at Philadelphia; length of days; festivals and other remarkable days; Friends' Yearly Meetings; courts, roads, &c. &c. Also a variety of essays in prose and verse.
Philadelphia [Pa.]: : Printed for, and sold by, Joseph and James Crukshank, No. 87, High-Street., [1803]
By Abraham Shoemaker. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical with those in Carey's Franklin almanack for 1804 (Trenton), calculated by Shoemaker. An exception is in the times for the moon's rising and setting, which differ slightly for all the months but March, April and May.
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C-H⁴⁻².
Shaw & Shoemaker 50387
Drake, M. Almanacs, 10653
Last page contains an advertisement for stationery and books available from the publishers.
HSP in LCP.
Historical Society copy has MS. notes.
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Advertisements -- Stationery. rbgenr
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Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1803. rbgenr
Relief prints. gmgpc
Shoemaker, Abraham.
PA. Philadelphia. 1803. Imprint
Joseph & James Crukshank (Firm), publisher. Printer
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