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Cover title. Illustrated cover. Original calculation by Chas. F. Eagelmann Reading, Pa."--page [3]. "Van Court, printer, 243 Arch Street."--Colophon, page [36]. "Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations", page [2]. Published and sold by McDowell & Halloway, 121 Market Street,

Cover title. Illustrated cover. "Original calculation, by Chas.F. Egelmann, Reading, Pa."--Page [3]. "Van Court, printer, 243 Arch Street."--Colophon, page [36]. "Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations", page [2]. "The fight in Congress-- One of 'Abe' Lincoln's illustrations": page 13. "How a colored preacher shirked the question": page 19. Advertisement for Joseph McDowell, stationer and bookseller, page [36].

Cover title.
Illustrated cover.
Astronomical calculations by C.F. Egelmann.
"Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations", page 2. Includes several African American jokes and dialogues: "Whole nigger", page 21 ; "The following dialogue between a Negro and a son of the Emerald Isle", page 33 ; "A Negro who attempted to account for the failure of a balloon...", page 33. Two states of the second gathering noted. One state has an advertisement of Joseph McDowell on lower half of page [36]; the other, and advertisement of William D. Parrish.

arranged after the system of the German calendars. Containing the rising, setting and eclipses of the sun and moon ; the phases, signs and southings of the moon ; the aspects of the planets, with the rising setting and southing of the most conspicuous planets and fixed stars ; the times of high water at Philadelphia ; the equation of time and other miscellanies, &c., with much valuable information for housekeepers. The calculations of this almanac are made to mean or clock time, except the rising and setting of the sun, which are for solar, or apparent time. Cover title: The American farmers almanac 1861. "Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations", page [3]. Contains descriptions of various remedies and some recipes. Published annually, by Fisher & Brother. Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Baltimore.

containing, an ephemeris, phenomena and observations in each month, Spring tides, judgment of the weather, feasts and fasts of the Church, Quakers meetings, courts in the four New-England governments, sun and moon's rising and setting, moon's place, a table shewing the time of night by the pointers, time of high water at Salem, publick roads with the best stages or houses to put up at, eclipses, &c. &c.-- Also, a great variety of useful, entertaining pieces, in prose and verse, select sentences, useful Maxims & good cautions. Attributed to Samuel Hall by Evans. Hall is termed the editor and proprietor in Historical collections of the Essex Institute, v. 8 (1866), p. 159. Signatures: [A-B]⁴ C⁴. "Distances of the principal towns on the continent from Boston and Salem", pages [22]-[24]. Title and text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Essex gazette, Salem, Nov. 13/20, 1770. The previous issue, for 1770, was entitled Philo's Essex almanack. The astronomical and weather predictions among the notes on the calendar pages correspond for the most part with those in Nathanael Low's An astronomical diary or Almanack for 1771 (Boston), suggesting that these pages are probably also the work of Nathanael Low, 1740-1808. though calculated for Salem rather than Boston.

Containing the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States; with a list of the chief executive and judicial officers, United States senators and members of Congress, governors of the states and territories, and the times of holding elections, and the place and time of meeting of the state legislatures, together with the votes polled for president and governors in the several states, in 1836 '37 and '38. Also, a variety of interesting matter selected from the speeches and writings of the patriarchs of democracy. The calculator was David Young. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, together with the preceding astronomical matter, are identical with those in the various almanacs published in New York bearing Young's name, except that there are fewer columns of calculations. Preface dated Nov. 1838. Advertised in the Evening Post Nov. 19, 1838.

Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788. Celebrated speech of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Shipley...Advertised in the Connecticut gazette, New London, October 14, 1774. With a portrait of Jonathan Shipley (Reilly 1565) on the title page. "The celebrated speech of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Shipley ... intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the Charter of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay ..."--p. [3]-[6], [20]-27.

Wherein are contained lunations, eclipses of the luminaries, time of the sitting of courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and all other things necessary for a composition of this kind. Adapted to the horizon and meridian of Hartford, lat. 41 deg. 56 min. North: long. 72 deg. 54 min. to the westward of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (according to the latest observations) but may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut. Includes verse. Cover title. Attributed to Strong in: Bates, A.C. "Checklist of Connecticut almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 24 (1914): 131. Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴. Title printed within engraved ornamental border. Printer's advertisement for the purchase of rags, page [16]. Advertised in the Connecticut courant, Hartford, Nov. 17, 1778.

Title illustration. Last ten pages contain advertisements by Philadelphia merchants, including a bookseller's advertisement by C.M. Saxton, advertisements for herring and scientific instruments, and patent medicines by Louden & Co. One advertisement is dated May 1st, 1856.

The anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations -- An extraordinary instance of divine retribution -- Account of Edward Drinker -- Death and the drunkard (in verse) -- An alarming warning to... (a physician) who was given to... hard drinking. Taken from Thomas Chalkley's journal -- Anecdotes of Peter the Great -- Federal courts -- Courts of Pennsylvania. Cover title. Signatures: [A]² B-C⁶ D⁴. Title vignette: Great Seal of the United States (with the motto "E pluribus unum"), and the sun and stars above it. Last two pages contain a bookseller's and stationer's advertisement by the publisher.