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1815 Almanac with George Washington on Cover.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,400.00 USD
1815 Almanac with George Washington on Cover.
<B>1815 Almanac with George Washington on Cover.</B></I> <I>The United States Almanac; Being the Third After Leap Year…,</B></I> calculated by William Collom, (Philadelphia: Thomas M. Longstretch, 1815), 48 pages, original wrappers, 2.75" x 3.5". Illustrated with a woodblock-engraved bust, oval portrait vignette of George Washington on the title page. In addition, there are some useful tables on the value and weight of coins, other foreign coins and Federal money, rates of exchange for Pennsylvania currency, the American Standard of Money approved by Act of Congress, April 10, 1806 including Gold Eagles and other Silver coins, and an outstanding woodblock engraving figural print titled: "The Anatomy of the Man's Body as Governed by the Twelve Constellations". The Almanac features original wrappers; nicely rebound inside hard pictorial boards, with a paper spine label and new endpapers. The head of the spine is slightly chipped, foot and corners bumped, and overall very fine and nice. Throughout the contents are a bit darkened with faint original ink notations by an original owner along the bottom of selvage of several internal pages reads: "I put my cow to pasture to Arthur St. Clairs the 22nd of May 1815 - The Cow took the Bull the 1st of July 1815 - Left pasture with A St. Clair 19th and put to Peter Dager the 20th of Sept. 1815 - Quit pasture with Peter Dager the 26th of November 1815." Arthur St. Clair was a President of the Continental Congress, Major General in the Continental Army, first Governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair commanded a large force of Americans that was badly defeated by the Miami Indians in a crucial battle near Ft. Wayne on Nov. 4, 1791.
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