Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1772.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eighteenth century collections online.
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| Online Access: | Full text online |
| Item Description: | The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. volume 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse predictions are identical, and calendar page notes correspond closely, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1772 (Providence). The calendar page calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are also identical, though the others vary, being for Boston rather than Providence. Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston weekly news-letter, Oct. 3, 1771, supplement. Advertisements for books, stationery, and printing and binding work, page [40]. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 40 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 12⁰. |