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The Eclectic Almanac, For The Year 1839; Being The Third After Bissextile Or Leap-Year, And After The Fourth Of July, The Sixty-Fourth Year Of America

The Eclectic Almanac, For The Year 1839; Being The Third After Bissextile Or Leap-Year, And After The Fourth Of July, The Sixty-Fourth Year Of America

Armstrong, John

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AnthropologyGeneral ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935450647X
ISBN13: 9789354506475
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before newspapers set the pace, the year arrived in an almanac. The Eclectic Almanac for 1839 gathers the practical knowledge, civic rhythm, and wonder of the skies that guided households across the young republic. A year, mapped in ink. John Armstrong's historic American almanac is a true 19th century almanac: crisp calendar and holiday tables, compact astronomical and lunar data, and working ephemeris and sun tables for everyday reference. Alongside its calendars and calculations, it reflects the curiosities and concerns of the antebellum United States, making it invaluable for genealogy and local history as well as for browsing on a quiet evening. Its dated framework is a snapshot of knowledge in circulation: the authority of numbers, the spread of print, and the way national identity was rehearsed in everyday planning for its day. For readers of 1839 American ephemera, it sits in the same lineage as Poor Richards Almanack, capturing how Americans measured seasons, travel, work, worship, and public anniversaries in the sixty-fourth year of independence. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This facsimile reprint edition is ideal for primary source research, for period-detail writers, and for anyone who loves the tactile precision of early American print culture. For shelf-proud bibliophiles, it is an almanac collectors edition; for the casually curious, it is a vivid, usable record of how 1839 was organised, one day at a time.

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