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broadside.
Title from a notice in the Maryland Journal and
Baltimore advertiser of December 9, 1791, addressed,
"to the Despicable author of the anonymous handbill,
called "Description of a fete champetre." The
notice appears' in the column headed "Baltimore,"
is unsigned and therefore was probably written by
Goddard.
Hot in Evans.
No copy located.
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Ellicott's / Maryland ard Virginia / almanac,/
and / ephemeris, / for the year of Our Lord, /
1792; / being bissextile, or leap-year, / and the
sixteenth year of American independence, / Among
other interesting particulars, are the motions of
the / sun and moon, the true places and aspects of
the eight / planets, the rising and setting of the
sun, and the rising,/setting, southing and age of
the moon, &c. - To which / are added, the lunations,
conjunctions, eclipses, judgment / of the weather,
festivals, and other memorable days, and / days for
holding courts in Maryland and Virginia: - like- /
wise, a table reducing the currency of Pennsylvania,
New- / Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, to the cur-
rencies of the / other states, and to English and
Irish money - Also, a ta- / ble of dollars and other
coins, as they now pass in each of / the United
States; with many other useful tables and phy- /
sical receipts, a letter from the Alleghany philos-
opher - and / several compositions in prose and
verso; - the whole cal- / culated to instruct and
entertain our readers. /[double rule] / Os homini
sublime dedit: cablumque tueri / Jussit, et
erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. - Ovid. / [rule]/
Baltimore: / Printed and sold, wholesale and retail,
by / John Hayes, Market-street. // [1791]
16°, 19 1/2 cm. lillus.
Pages: [44]
Signatures: [A],4 E4-E4, F2,
Title enclosed in ornamental rule.
Evans 23347,
RPJCB.
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