Columbian Almanac for the Year 1831: Being the Third after Bissextile or Leap Year

Philadelphia, Pa.: Joseph M'Dowell, 1830. Very Good +. Carefully calculated for the Latitude and Meridian of Philadelphia." [36] p.: wood-engraved title vignette and illustration of astrological signs; 18 cm. (7 inches). Publisher's advertisements on last two pages. Embossed oval stamp on first leaf for the Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia. Four-digit number written in ink at foot of third page. Error in printing at foot of fifth page. Each month's page has a short poem about a bird at the foot. Contains a poem by Selleck Osborn, "The Faithful Negro Boy," and the schedule for Pennsylvania courts. Checklist Am. Imprints, 959; Drake, Almanacs, 11715. In Very Good- Condition: removed from a nonce volume; foxing; otherwise clean and tight.