Poor Job, 1752. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1752 [electronic resource] : ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Four lines of verse].
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Poor Job, 1752. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1752 [electronic resource] : ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Four lines of verse].
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Newport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1751]
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
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English
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[24]p. : ill. ; 8⁰.
Note
The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.
Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 25, 1751.
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 25, 1751.
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
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Evans, 6780
Drake, M. Almanacs, 12801
Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 103
English Short Title Catalog, W22768.
Drake, M. Almanacs, 12801
Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 103
English Short Title Catalog, W22768.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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