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WITH A POTRAIT OF BANNAKER (ALMANACS.) Benjamin Bannaker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1795. Portrait of Banneker on the front cover; 34 of 36 unnumbered pages, lacking the last leaf; several jottings, a note in red ink on the cover: "presented by Mr. Geo. Archer;" inked library stamp from an old historical society; all four corners trimmed, a sign of early "remaindering." Enclosed in a home-made very early 19th century card-stock case with red dye "blotting" and a round label, with "Bannaker's Almanac 1795." [Baltimore, MD]: Printed for and sold by John Fisher, [1794]
one of the rarest and most desirable of benjamin banneker's almanackswith the engraved portrait of him at age 64 on the front cover. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), self-taught astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and author helped lay out the survey for Washington Territory that was to become the grid for Washington D. C. Encouraged by his neighbor friends the Ellicotts, Banneker produced his first almanac in 1791. Provenance: from an institutional collection. Evans 26610; ESTC wo36355; Drake, 2240.
