(ALMANACS) [Bullard Samuel] Weatherwises Federal Almanack fo

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(ALMANACS.) [Bullard, Samuel?] Weatherwise's Federal Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1789. Woodcut on preliminary title page. 12mo, stitched; edge wear, closed tears on first title page and leaf B1; uncut; early owner's signatures on final page and verso of second title page. Boston: John Norman, [1788]

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The woodcut is one of the very few contemporary depictions of New York's Federal Hall, where the First Congress met, the Constitution and Bill of Rights were adopted, and Washington was inaugurated. The illustration is captioned with a patriotic poem. Inside, each of the monthly almanac pages are headed with a short poem on an American general, starting with "On General Washington": "Immortal Chief, illustrious Sage / His godlike worth from age to age / Shall spread to ev'ry clime." Drake 3418; ESTC W20836 (Bullard attribution); Evans 21580. No other copies known at auction since 1921.