The New Pennsylvania almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19848
Publisher: Printed by F. Bailey, J. Steele, and J. Bailey; and to be sold by F. Bailey, Philadelphia, J. Bailey, Lancaster, and J. Steele, at the printing-office, Octorara.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [Philadelphia] Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Notes: Calculated by Benjamin Workman. With some omissions and additions, the calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical with those in Father Tammany's almanac for 1787 (Philadelphia: Young and M'Culloch), which states on p. [4] that Workman is its calculator. The present almanac omits a few notes, adds others, omits the monthly table of time equations, and adds one for the moon's age and a column for its southing. The eclipse predictions are duplicated in each almanac.

Workman advertised his almanac calculations for this year in the Freeman's journal, June 14, 1786.

Signatures: [A]² B-D⁶.

Title vignette: state seal. The Anatomy is the only other illustration.

Evans 19848

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10216