The American almanack for the year of Christian account, 1739 [microform] : ... Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of 5 hours west from London, but may, without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. / By Titan Leeds, philomat
- Author:
- Leeds, Titan, 1699-1738
- Published:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Andrew Bradford, at the Sign of the Bible in Front-Street, [1738]
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
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- Related Titles:
- Genuine Leeds almanack
- Note:
- Advertised in the American weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, Sept. 14/21, 1738, as "now in the press."
At head of title: Leeds coat of arms with scroll reading: The genuine Leeds almanack.
Publisher's preface, signed W.B. and A.B. (William and Andrew Bradford) states that in 1738, in anticipation of his death, Leeds calculated almanacs "for seven years to come ... of which copies this present diary is one." William Bradford was Leeds' New York publisher.
The Anatomy is the only illustration in the text.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms:
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4259).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 9606
Evans, C. American bibliography, 4259
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 581
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