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Leavitt's Old Farmer's Almanack - 1854 (USA) (California Map)
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Leavitt's Old Farmer's Almanack - 1854 (USA) (California Map)
Leavitt's Old Farmer's Almanack, and miscellaneous Year Book,
for the year of Our Lord
1854
Containing a new map of California
Manchester N.H. William H. Fiske No. 4 Methodist Church
Signed at top A. P. Cates Northfield N.H.
Nice graphic on front cover of large house overlooking farmlands.
Information includes:
Full page map 'Mining Region of California'.
First edition, 48 pages (incl cover)
Nips, tucks and small tears throughout. Pages 7-9 have larger tear, tear in cover. Chunk of paper missing on left of map. Age stains. Some owner notes. Still has string.
7 ¾" X 5"
Scarce pre-Civil War document in a well-used state.
Dudley Leavitt (1772 – September 20, 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years, Leavitt relocated to Meredith, where in addition to teaching school and farming, he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, one of the nation's earliest farmers' almanacs. A polymath, Leavitt poured his knowledge of disparate fields including mathematics, language and astronomy into the wildly popular almanacs, which outlived their creator, being published until 1896.
But the almanac, which he dubbed Leavitt's Farmers' Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook, became such a success that after a while Leavitt shelved many of his other activities to focus on it. The once-farfetched idea was a runaway hit. By 1846, for instance, Leavitt's almanacs were selling some 60,000 copies for that year's two editions – a tremendous number for the era.
Leavitt aimed the almanacs at the general population of New England, supplying tips on everything from farming to the weather to astronomy. As word spread about the publication, readership jumped, and the publication became a fixture throughout the region. The almanacs were sold at general stores, and later at grocery stores and drug stores. Leavitt was aided in some of the almanac's calculations geared towards agriculture by his nephew, astronomer William B. Leavitt.
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