The South-Carolina & Georgia almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1789
Subtitle: being the first after leap year, and the thirteenth year of American independence. : Containing lunations, eclipses, rising and setting of the sun, aspects, judgement of the weather, &c. : Also, a general description of the state of South-Carolina, its officers, city establishment, courts held in Charleston, return day[s], rates of coin[,] tide table, scale of depreciation, charges on transacting business, as agreed to by the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, premiums voted by the Agricultural Society, &c. : [Two lines from The rural Christian]
Contributors: Tobler, John, 1696-1765.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21504.
Publisher: Printed Markland & M'Iver, No. 47, Bay.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Charleston [S.C.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: South Carolina -- Description and travel.
Notes: Attributed by Evans to John Tobler, presumably because most of the other issues in this series bear his name, but probably correctly. The calculations for the rising and setting of the moon are identical throughout with those in the Wilmington almanac or ephemeris for 1789 (Wilmington, Del.), and the eclipse predictions have the same wording in an abbreviated form. From 1764 to 1777 and probably until 1794, the Wilmington almanack contained Tobler's calculations under the pseudonym of Thomas Fox. Most of the calculations in the present almanac differ from those in Wilmington because of the difference in meridian.

Although the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher's preface to the South-Carolina and Georgia almanack for 1764 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed for publication up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler junior is the author.

Another edition (Gould & Morgan 893; not in Evans or Bristol) differs somewhat in content.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Digital version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Evans 21504

Gould & Morgan.  South Carolina, 892

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 13145

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21504).