The American oracle : comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / by the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic ; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick ; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America.

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The American oracle : comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / by the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic ; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick ; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen, MDCCXCI [1791]

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8 unnumbered pages, 627 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xviii, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 24 cm (8vo)

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"This volume consists of the sheets of the London edition [Printed for J. Lackington and J. Parsons, 1791] with new title-page and preface (dated 12 September, 1791, at New York), and additional errata."--Clark, John C.L. "'The famous Doctor Stearns.' A biographical sketch of Dr. Samuel Stearns with a bibliography." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 45 (1935): 416
At the foot of the t.p.: The copyright of this book is secured agreeable to the act of Congress. (Price two dollars in boards.)
Errata and instructions to the bookbinder on p. [6], 1st group of paging
"A figure of the solar system, engraved for The American oracle by J. Robinson, London."--plate facing p. 90
Includes an index
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2R⁸ [2S]⁸ 2T⁴ (2T4 blank)
Library holds rebound volume and original covers removed for rebinding.
NLM copy: untrimmed edges.

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Evans 23795
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 431
ESTC (RLIN) W37218

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