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Exeter, [NH]: Published by Francis Grant. Sold wholesale and retail at the Exeter Bookstore, sold also by the principal Booksellers and Country Traders in New-England, [1820]., [1820]. Good. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Original sewn self-wraps with a vignette illustration on the front cover. [36] pages, including a list of the eclipses which are to take place that year, a list of the state courts, daily almanack with information about each day of the month, including the length of each day, sunrise and sunset, etc. each with a playful motto or poem printed below. The signatures [group of pages] are coming loose, though all are present. The cover page is detached with some heavy dampstaining at bottom left. Both the first and last leaf are heavily foxed with some lighter foxing to the first and last few pages. The front corners of the pages were clipped in the distant past and there is a diagonal tear to the front edge of page 24. A copy of this RARE almanack which collates complete with the copy at the American Antiquarian Society. Printed by Samuel Tenney Moses (1798-1842), the Almanac includes a "Eulogy on Rum", a satiric poem which fills more than three-quarters of page [31]. "Arise! ye pimpled, tipling race, arise! / From ev'ry town and village tavern come! / Show your red noses, and o'erflowing eyes / And help your poet chant the praise of rum." "Hail mighty rum! to thee, the wretched fly ; / And find a sweet oblivion of their woes!" . "Hail, mighty Rum! what can thy power withstand! / E'en lordly reason flies thy dreadful face; / And health, and joy, and all the lovely band / Of social virtues, shun thy dwelling place: / (For in whatever breast it rears its throne, / Like turkish monarchs, rum must rule alone.)"Rum and drinking appear to be a theme as there is also a poem titled "Ode To Rum" at the bottom of two of the daily almanac pages.RARE. Seller Inventory # 97414
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Title: AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, OR ALMANACK, For the ...
Publisher: Exeter, [NH]: Published by Francis Grant. Sold wholesale and retail at the Exeter Bookstore, sold also by the principal Booksell [1820].
Publication Date: 1820
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
