THE GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES' DIARY AND ALMANAC; WITH AN EPHEMERIS, FOR THE YEAR...1800.
Keene, (N.H.): Printed by John Prentiss, [1799]. 12mo. 48pp, stitched and untrimmed. Light wear and scattered foxing, last leaf loose. Good+.
A scarce almanac, NAIP locating but six copies. In addition to the usual material, it discloses vacations at Harvard, Dartmouth, Williamstown, and Rhode Island Colleges; federal court calendars, and similar information for courts in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; explains the Act of Congress imposing duties on carriages; postal rates; how to extinguish "the burning soot in chimneys"; and "a most excellent medicine, against pestilential disorders." A table of roads and distances, and a table of currency conversions, are also provided.
Evans 35642. Drake 4778. NAIP w029793 [6]. Item #26558
Price: $250.00