A scarce broadsheet guide to a 19th century solar eclipse in Philadelphia

POULSON, John.

Approaching Solar Eclipse. The lovers of Astronomical Science will perhaps be highly gratified with the opportunity which may on Monday be afforded them, of beholding this interesting phenomenon...
Philadelphia: printed by John Poulson, n.d., but 1806. Letterpress broadsheet with wood-engraved diagram and border. Sheet 535 x 220mm.

Repair to split in fold repaired with loss of a line of text; a few other letters mis-inked.

Broadsheet with a wood engraved diagram of the phases of the solar eclipse due on June 16, 1806, as seen from Philadelphia.


Stock ID : 22373