Publisher's Synopsis
Title: The Lutheran almanac for the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ...: being the first year after leap year, and until the 4th of July, ...Author: General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States.Lutheran Publication Society.Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02201401CollectionID: CTRG97-S3PublicationDate: 18530101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Cataloged from cover. Description based on: [No. 2] (1853). "Arranged after the system of German calendars, and adapted to the latitude and meridian of Baltimore, with valuable statistical information, &c." "All the calculations of this almanc are made to solar or apparent time, to which add the equation of time, when the sun is slow, and subtract it, when fast, for mean or clock time." Each no. includes: "Clerical register, list of names and post office addresses of Lutheran ministers in the United States."Collation: 29 nos.: ill.; 19 cm
