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Title:
  • A Perpetual almanack: : shewing, the prime, epact, cycle of the sun, dominical letter, moon's age, high water, day of the month, day of the week, what days of the month all the Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, &c. in any month of any year, fall on, leap year, moon's southing, sun rise, sun set, length of day, length of night, moveable and fixed feasts of the Church of England, and remarkable days for ever, &c.
Call No:
  • G1157
    • Broadsides 1730 No.1
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Newport, Rhode-Island: :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by James Franklin, and sold by the author in Newport.,
Imprint Date:
  • [1730?]
Physical Description:
  • 1 sheet ([1] p.)
  • 42 x 33 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Bristol
    • Shipton & Mooney Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, Drake, M. Almanacs,
  • B835
    • 39959 14 12782
Notes:
  • Followed by a verse of seven lines forming an acrostic on the name Lambert, which may have been the name or pseudonym of the compiler.
    • Imprint date suggested by Alden. RIHS curator's note: "It has long been believed that the type for this perpetual almanac was set by Ann Franklin."
  • Reverse of RIHS copy is a drawing "The Plott of the first floor of a dwelling house to be built on James Gordons Farm."
    • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Location:
  • Broadside Collection: G 1157
    • Digital Version Available:
    MARC Values:
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