The Wilmington almanack, or ephemeries, for the year of our Lord, 1762
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies
By: By Thomas Fox, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 8858
Publisher: Printed and sold by James Adams in Market-Street; --and to be had, in Philadelphia, of William Falkner, the second house from the First Presbyterian Church, in Market-Street.
Published: 1761
Place of publication: Wilmington [Del.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: The calendar pages of the Wilmington almanack (1762-1794), except for the verse and prose matter, are identical line for line with the concurrent issues of the Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack (1764-1777) calculated by John Tobler. "Thomas Fox" is a pseudonym. Author's preface to the 1762 issue states that he had "for some years, observed those almanacks published in America," and had "formerly, in Europe," learned the use of Thomas Street's tables. Tobler was a Swiss immigrant.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 5, 1761.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C-F⁴⁻².

The Anatomy (Reilly 1823) is the only illustration.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [3].

Evans 8858

Rink, E. Delaware, 3

Drake, M. Almanacs, 1333