LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Robert Bailey Thomas. From a Painting in the possession of the
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts

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Frontispiece

An Eighteenth-Century Bookbinder. From an original Label in the Harvard College Library

Title-page of Osgood Carleton's Almanack for 1792

Robert Bailey Thomas. From the Farmer's Almanack for 1838
Title-page of the first Number of the Farmer's Almanack, 1793
Facsimile of Mr. Thomas's Signature .

Title-page of the Farmer's Almanack for 1795

Horoscope for a Guinea Voyage, August 22, 1752. From the
American Historical Record, I, 319

Mock Horoscope. From Poor Robin's Almanack for 1690
Title-page of the Farmer's Almanack for 1810
Cuts at the head of the Calendar Pages for January and August,
1800. From the Farmer's Almanack

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The same for May, 1801-1803 (from the Almanack for 1803),
and December, 1804-1808 (from that for 1804)
Circle of the Months. From the Kalender of Shepherdes, 1503
(Sommer's facsimile edition, London, 1892)

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Cuts for January, 1809-1852 (from the Farmer's Almanack for
1820), and November since 1852 (from that for 1904).
Roman Farmer's Calendar, an inscribed stone. From the Real
Museo Borbonico, II, plate xliv.

Facsimile of the Farmer's Calendar for October, 1800. From
the Farmer's Almanack for that year

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Wonders of the Invisible World.

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. III

From Glanvil's Sadducismus
Triumphatus, Fourth Edition, London, 1726
Fire-engine at Work. From a Broadside of Adam Nuttall,

London, 1760, in the Library of the American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester, Massachusetts

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Summons to a Meeting of the United Fire Society of Boston
(instituted July, 1789). From the original.
Observation of a Comet. Reduced facsimile of the Title-page
of Hevelius' Cometographia, Dantzic, 1668.
Title-page of Increase Mather's KOMнTOгPAČIA, Boston, 1683.
Harvard College Library .

Perry's Victory. From a contemporary Broadside in the Library
of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
Title-page of Cotton Mather's Advice from the Watch Tower,
Boston, 1713. Harvard College Library

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A page of Dr. Nathaniel Ames's Almanack for 1751, showing his Advertisement of the Sun Tavern, Dedham, Massachusetts 264 Map of New England showing the first Railroads. From the Farmer's Almanack for 1841

List of Roads to the principal Towns on the Continent, from Boston, with the Names of those who keep Houses of Entertainment. From the Farmer's Almanack for 1802. (Not in absolute facsimile.) . .

List of Books for Sale by R. B. Thomas at Sterling, Massachusetts, in 1797. From the Farmer's Almanack for that year. (Not in absolute facsimile.) ..

The Town Acts of Natick, Massachusetts, April 18th, 1715.
From the Original in the handwriting of Thomas Waban,
Town Clerk .

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346 A Massachusetts Indian. From a sketch made by Mr. C. C. Willoughby, under the direction of Professor F. W. Putnam 359 Father Time as he appears on the Title-page of the Farmer's Almanack since 1852

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