almanac

Includes verse. Cover title. Covers have pictures of 34 state seals. At foot of page [2]: Astronomical calculation by Lawrence J. Ibach, Sheridan P.O., Lebanon Co., Pa. Illustrations include the anatomical man, showing the relationships between parts of the body and the signs of the zodiac, page [2]. One engraving signed: Darley del.

Cover title. Covers have pictures of 34 state seals. Illustrations include the anatomical man, showing the relationships between parts of the body and the signs of the zodiac, page [2].

Cover title. Page 4: "The astronomical calculations have been made in mean time, expressly for this almanac, by Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A.M., of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York." "Price, 20 cents." Includes: Acts of Congress (at the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, December 4, 1865-July 28, 1866), public resolutions, and proclamations, pages 27-35 ; The Civil Rights Bill "to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication," and the president's veto message March 27, 1866, pages 36-42 ; The Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the president's veto messages, pages 42-44 ; Address of the national Union Committee, pages 45-46 ; election returns for various elections 1860-1866 by state, county and congressional district., pages 49-71. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 73-104 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Cover title. Page 5: "The astronomical calculations have been made in mean time, expressly for this almanac, by Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A.M., of Dundee, Yates County, New York."
"Price, 20 cents."
Includes: Acts of Congress (at the second session of the thirty-eighth Congress, December 5, 1864-March 4, 1865) and proclamations, pages 29-37 ; Slaveholders' rebellion brief record of events, pages 38-42 ; The Union Party in 1865. resolutions ... on reconstruction and impartial suffrage, pages 43-46 ; Impartial suffrage, pages 46-48 ; President Lincoln's second inaugural address, page 49 ; President Johnson on the Negro question, pages 49-50 ; election returns for various elections 1860-1865 by state, county and congressional district, pages 53-72. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 73-96 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Title and imprint from front wrappers. "J.F. Cleveland, compiler"--Cover. "Price. Single copies, 13 cents...$1 per dozen...$7 per hundred"--Cover. Includes: political parties platforms for 1860, pages 30-34 ; South Carolina secedes from the Union, pages 35-37 ; election returns for various elections 1856-1860 by state, county and congressional district, and popular vote for president (containing New York State Negro Suffrage Referenda Returns, 1846 and 1860, by Election District, on the issue of Negro suffrage, with information on number of votes for, against, and total votes), pages 39-64. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 65-80 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Title and imprint from front wrappers. "J.F. Cleveland, compiler"--Cover. "Price. Single copies, 13 cents...$1 per dozen...$7 per hundred"--Cover. Includes articles on slavery: The foreign slave trade, pages 30-34 ; Kansas affairs, pages 34-35. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 65-80 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Contains data about United States government, Pennsylvania government, Philadelphia city government, churches and synagogues, charitable institutions, as well as a chronology and recapitulation of the previous year's events in Philadelphia. Title and imprint from cover. "Westcott & Thomson, stereotypers and electrotypers"--Inside front cover. Collins, printer, Philada."--Inside front cover. Inside back cover contains a contents page. Front cover depicts a shield with the colors of the American flag, an eagle holding four arrows above it, and four American flags behind the eagle. Back cover depicts the Public Ledger Building on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia; pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages are included in the print. Presumably printed in 1871 for publication in 1872.

Calculated for the meridian of Boston in New-England, lat. 42. deg. 25 min. north. Containing ... receipt for the cure of the dysentery, ... directions for preserving the health of the soldiers in the camp, Sir Richard Rum’s advice to the soldiers ... with a cure for drunkenness, &c. &c....Cover title. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. "An account of commencement of hostilities between Great-Britain and American, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, by the Rev. Mr. William Gordon, of Roxbury, in a letter to a gentleman in England."--pages [5]-[16]. "Sir Richard Rum's advice to the soldiers and others" (on the cure of drunkenness): page [17]. "Directions for preserving the health of the soldier in the camps," and "A receipt for the cure of the dysentery or camp distemper": pages [18]-[19]. "Roads to the principal Towns on the Continent, &c. from Boston, with the names of those who keep houses of entertainment": page [21]-[24]. Advertisement for the ferry from New York to Philadelphia, at foot of page [24]. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. Title within border of double rules; text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Nov. 24, 1775.

Calculated for the state of Massachusetts, but will answer for Connecticut, R. Island, N. Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Containing a large number of useful and entertaining remarks and events. Cover title. Issued also as The Maine family almanac (with variant pages [31-32]) and as The Vermont family almanac. The astronomical portion of The American almanac was by Robert Treat Paine. At head of title: No. 3, vol. 1. Each month contains illustrations and notes on the seasons, with a table for a chronology of memorable historical events for that month. "Plan for a farm school", page [31]. "Post roads. Travellers' guide to the principal towns, with the distances", pages [33]-[36]. Advertisement for Allen & Co., stationer and publisher, page [36].

till 4th July, containing also the lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, judgment of the weather, rising and setting of the planets, length of days and nights, &c. &c. &c.-- together with useful tables, entertaining remarks, &c. &c. Includes verse.
Cover title. Hutchins died in 1782, and the calculator of the present almanac was Abraham Shoemaker, the author of Ming's United States register and New York pocket almanac for 1813. The calendar pages are an expanded version of those in the pocket almanac, with the astronomical notes nearly all duplicated throughout, and without the tides column. The eclipse predictions (page [33]) also are identical with those in Ming's, omitting one line. Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F². "Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations" is the only illustration. "American naval victories", pages [25], [27]-[28], concerning accounts of American naval victories and statistics during the War of 1812. Includes: agricultural information; tables of roads from Albany to Niagara, New England towns, roads to Canada, and post towns on the east coast with their distances from each other as established by the postmaster general in 1814; coins of the United States. Lists of vessels.