The American oracle [electronic resource] : Comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness. By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America. [Two lines in Latin].

New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen. M.DCC.XCI. The copyright of this book is secured agreeable to the act of Congress. (Price two dollars in boards.), [1791]

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[8], 627, [1], xviii, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8⁰.

"This volume consists of the sheets of the London edition [Printed for J. Lackington and J. Parsons, 1791] with new title-page and preface (dated 12 September, 1791, at New York), and additional errata."--Clark, John C.L. "'The famous Doctor Stearns.' A biographical sketch of Dr. Samuel Stearns with a bibliography." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 45 (1935): 416.
Error in paging: p. 93 misnumbered 39.
"A figure of the solar system, engraved for The American oracle by J. Robinson, London."--plate facing p. 90.
Errata note, p. [6], 1st count.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Evans, 23795
English Short Title Catalog, W37218.

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