delphia;
Thomas and Andrews,
Boston; and all the principal booksellers in the
United-States.
1806.
VK563 .G23
Sm. folio and 8vo, collating in twos and fours, 128 leaves.
Not in Sabin.
This edition not in Karpinski, who has only the edition of the same year without Garnett’s name on the title-page.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him by John March on June 30, 1807, cost $1.00.
On the back of a letter sent by
N. G. Dufief to Jefferson on September 29, 1813, Jefferson wrote a list of books in which this is included.
John Garnett’s
Tables Requisite were founded on those of Nevil Maskelyne, published at the same time as the first
Nautical Almanac
, and twice reprinted. For an account of Garnett and the Nautical Almanac which these Tables accompanied, see the next entry.
[3809]
31
Nautical almanacs for 1786. 87. 88. 89. 90. 97. 98. 99. 1800. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 16, Nautical Almanacs for 1786, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 1800, 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19 v 8vo.
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Year 1786. [-1790; 1793-1808.] Published by Order of the Commissioners
of Longitude.
London: Printed by
William Richardson, Printer; and sold by
C. Nourse, in the Strand, and Mess.
Mount and Page on Tower-Hill, Booksellers to the said Commissioners.
m dcc lxxxi [-1804.]
[Price
Three Shillings and Six Pence.--
Five Shillings]--
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1809. [-1814.] Published in London by Order of the Commissioners
of Longitude. Seventh [-Twelfth] American Impression. To be continued annually. Carefully revised by John Garnett.
New-Brunswick, New-Jersey: Printed by
William Elliot. Sold in
New-York by
T. and J. Swords; In
Philadelphia, by
Samuel F. Bradford; in
Boston, by
Thomas and Andrews; and other booksellers in the
United States. [Price,
one Dollar twenty-five Cents.] [
1806-1811.]--
Blunt’s Edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1811 [-1814], carefully examined, and many important
errors in the English edition corrected . . . Published annually.
New-York: Published by
Edmund M. Blunt,
1809-1812.
QB8 .G6 .G7 [
i.e. “QB8 .G6” and “QB8 .G7”?--
Ed.]
Together 19 volumes 8vo. issued annually in wrappers, advertisements in each part. No copy of Blunt’s edition for the years named was seen for collation. The imprints for the English edition are not the same throughout.
Not in the bibliographies of almanacs.
Houzeau, p. 928, no. 3170.
Sabin 52063 has Garnett’s tenth American impression (for 1812) only.
Lalande lists the
Nautical Almanac under certain years, and summarizes the contents of the volumes.
The Nautical Almanacs for 1786. 7. 8. 9. 90. are entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
24.10.
The
Nautical Almanac was established in 1765 by Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer-royal, and was continued annually. Jefferson began buying
this Almanac in 1786, when he was in Paris, and acquired copies not only for himself but also for his friends in the United
States. On May 1, 1786, Francis Hopkinson, in a letter to Jefferson from Philadelphia, mentioned: “. . . The nautical Almanack for the year 1790. did not come among the Books you sent, as you mention to Mr. Rittenhouse--all
the others have been delivered to him . . .”
