THE JAMAICA ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR 1824, BEING BISSEXTILE OR LEAP-YEAR. CALCULATED TO THE MERIDIAN OF PORT-ROYAL

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Description

Kingston: Printed by Alex. Aikman, Junior, [1823].. 127,[2]pp. plus seven blank leaves interleaved at the beginning. 12mo. Dbd., signatures loose. Chips in upper and lower edges of titlepage. Some soiling and creasing to the leaves throughout; old stain in upper outer corner of first sixty pages of first title. In about good condition. A rare Jamaica almanac for 1824. Along with the expected information the almanac contains a calendar of Jewish holidays, a list of civil officers on the island all the way down to the precinct level, the names of army, navy and militia officers, a list of Masonic lodges, and a brief sketch of Honduras. The historical sketch of Jamaica is apparently gleaned from James Finlayson's recently-published work on the island. This almanac was printed by Alexander Aikman, Junior, official printer to the Jamaican government, and the son of a printer who ran one of the early presses on Jamaica. According to Cundall, Alexander Aikman, Jr., began publishing Jamaica almanacs in 1812. OCLC locates no copies of this almanac for 1824. Any surviving ephemeral material (such as almanacs) from Jamaica in this period is rare. CUNDALL, p.89 (ref).