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The American repository of useful information [for 1796] : containing a calendar of the present year: an account of the United States, their territory and population; of the federal government & courts of justice; with other various interesting matter. : Ornamented with 12 vignettes, & a frontispiece, engraved by J. Smither & E. Trenchard. To be continued annually.

Other author/creatorSmither, James, 1741-1797, engraver.
Other author/creatorTrenchard, Edward C., approximately 1777- engraver.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for B. Davies, No: 68, High Street, 1796 [i.e. 1795]
Description2 unnumbered pages, 5-99 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 12 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30313. ^A478749
General note"Printed by J. Thompson."--colophon, p. 99.
General noteAdvertised in the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 1795.
General notePages [6-18] unnumbered.
General noteThe plates include the frontispiece, engraved title page, and two facing leaves for each month, respectively with vignette and with ornamental headpiece containing the legend "Memorandums."
General noteIncludes tables of baptisms and mortality in Philadelphia for 1794 and meterological observations in Philadelphia for 1794-1795.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [100-101].
References Evans 30313
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 10390
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30313).
Genre/formAlmanacs Pennsylvania 1796.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

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