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[24]pp. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Lower half and upper outer corner of title-leaf lacking, with text supplied in manuscript. Second and third leaves torn from fore-edge to spine, repaired; upper outer corner of second leaf lacking, with text supplied in manuscript. Eleventh leaf over-trimmed at fore-edge, affecting some text. Several additional leaves chipped and torn at margins, with repair. Rubbed and worn. A fair copy. Revolutionary-era almanac by Isaac Warren, featuring a map of the forts at New York. Also included are lists of roads, pieces of verse, an account of Peter the Great, and the "Celebrated Speech of Galgacus.worthy of the attention of all officers and soldiers in the American Army" (p.[17]). The North AMERICAN IMPRINTS Project notes that while Evans is correct in calling the almanac "essentially the same" as Samuel Stearns' NORTH-AMERICAN'S ALMANACK for the same year with regard to the prose matter and the map of the New york forts, the calendar is entirely different from that of Stearns. DRAKE 3269. EVANS 15212. ESTC W25152. NEBENZAHL, BATTLE PLANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 98 (variant). Seller Inventory # WRCAM37914
Title: THE NORTH AMERICAN'S ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR ...
Publisher: Printed and sold by W. Stearns and D. Bigelow, Worcester
Publication Date: 1776
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Revolutionary-era almanac by Isaac Warren, featuring a map of the forts at New York. Also included are lists of roads, pieces of verse, an account of Peter the Great, and the "Celebrated Speech of Galgacus.worthy of the attention of all officers and soldiers in the American Army" (p.[17]). The North AMERICAN IMPRINTS Project notes that while Evans is correct in calling the almanac "essentially the same" as Samuel Stearns' NORTH-AMERICAN'S ALMANACK for the same year with regard to the prose matter and the map of the New york forts, the calendar is entirely different from that of Stearns. DRAKE 3269. EVANS 15212. ESTC W25152. NEBENZAHL, BATTLE PLANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 98 (variant). [24]pp. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Lower half and upper outer corner of title-leaf lacking, with text supplied in manuscript. Second and third leaves torn from fore-edge to spine, repaired; upper outer corner of second leaf lacking, with text supplied in manuscript. Eleventh leaf over-trimmed at fore-edge, affecting some text. Several additional leaves chipped and torn at margins, with repair. Rubbed and worn. A fair copy. Seller Inventory # 37914
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