Poulson's town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1800 ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 36148
Publisher: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut Street, between Third and Fourth-Streets, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: --Philadelphia:--
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Meteorology; Observations; Yellow fever; Mortality; Climate; Vital Statistics
Notes: Calculated by Abraham Shoemaker. The calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, as well as the eclipse predictions on p. [2], duplicate those in his New Jersey and Pennsylvania almanac for 1800 (Trenton). Columns are added for the moon's age and the sun's declination.

Signatures: [1]⁴ 2² 3⁴ 4² 5⁴ 6² 7⁴ 8².

The Anatomy, as the title vignette, is the only illustration.

"A list of the births and deaths in the several religious societies in the city of Philadelphia, from May 1, 1798 to May 1, 1799."--p. [2].

"A comparative statement of the number of deaths which occurred each day in the city of Philadelphia, from the first of August to the fifth of November, in the years 1793, 1797 and 1798, during the prevalence of the contagious pestilential fever."--p. [3].

The calendar pages include a daily record of weather and temperature for 1798.

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