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245 00 a| American naval almanac for the year of our Lord, 1815 :b| being the third after leap year. /c| Calculated by Joshua Sharp. ; Containing, besides the usual matter of an almanac, some interesting particulars relative to the navy of the United States, and a variety of useful and entertaining articles. ; [One line of quotation].;

260 a| Philadelphia :b| Published by R. & T. Desilver,c| [1814];

300 a| 64 unnumbered pages :b| illustrations ;c| 20 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| computerb| c2| rdamedia;

338 a| online resourceb| cr2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Though Sharp is named as the calculator on the title page, the calendar pages and eclipse predictions are in fact the work of William Collom. They duplicate those in Bailey's Rittenhouse almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia), calculated by Collom, except that they omit the ephemeris and the column of time equations.;

500 a| The mistake apparently arose because the publishers copied this material from Bennett & Walton's almanac for this year. In Bennett & Walton it consists of offprints from Bailey's, supplied by the printer Lydia R. Bailey. Bennett & Walton unintentionally carried over Sharp's name from their own previous issues, failing to substitute that of Collom. Sharp's own almanacs for 1815 are distinctly different from Collom's work in their calculations and notes.;

500 a| Title vignettes.;

500 a| The illustrations, engraved by Mason after Woodside, consist of five full page wood engravings of American naval engagements during the War of 1812, accompanying reports of these and other operations.;

510 4 a| Shaw & Shoemakerc| 30675;

510 4 a| Drake, M. Almanacs,c| 11036;

530 a| Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.;

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700 1 a| Sharp, Joshua.=| ^A478752;

700 1 a| Collom, William.=| ^A750698;

700 1 a| Woodside, John Archibald,e| illustrator.=| ^A1124529;

700 1 a| Mason, William,d| active 1808-1844,e| engraver.=| ^A1131026;

752 a| United Statesb| Pennsylvaniad| Philadelphia.;

830 0 a| Early American imprints.n| Second seriesv| no. 30675.=| ^A575643;

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American naval almanac for the year of our Lord, 1815 : being the third after leap year. / Calculated by Joshua Sharp. ; Containing, besides the usual matter of an almanac, some interesting particulars relative to the navy of the United States, and a variety of useful and entertaining articles. ; [One line of quotation].

Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Published by R. & T. Desilver, [1814]
Description	64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subjects	United States--History. --War of 1812. --Naval operations.

Other author/creator	Sharp, Joshua.
Other author/creator	Collom, William.
Other author/creator	Woodside, John Archibald, illustrator.
Other author/creator	Mason, William, active 1808-1844, engraver.
Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 30675. ^A575643
General note	Though Sharp is named as the calculator on the title page, the calendar pages and eclipse predictions are in fact the work of William Collom. They duplicate those in Bailey's Rittenhouse almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia), calculated by Collom, except that they omit the ephemeris and the column of time equations.
General note	The mistake apparently arose because the publishers copied this material from Bennett & Walton's almanac for this year. In Bennett & Walton it consists of offprints from Bailey's, supplied by the printer Lydia R. Bailey. Bennett & Walton unintentionally carried over Sharp's name from their own previous issues, failing to substitute that of Collom. Sharp's own almanacs for 1815 are distinctly different from Collom's work in their calculations and notes.
General note	Title vignettes.
General note	The illustrations, engraved by Mason after Woodside, consist of five full page wood engravings of American naval engagements during the War of 1812, accompanying reports of these and other operations.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 30675
References	Drake, M. Almanacs, 11036
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 30675).
Genre/form	Almanacs Pennsylvania 1815.

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