Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our Lord 1768 ... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston; but will answer without a sensible error for any part of New-England. : Illustrated with an elegant plate of the giants lately discovered in South America ...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 10801. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | The first issue of Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, which continued until 1854. Attributed to Benjamin West in the Dictionary of American biography and in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. volume 22 (1912): 34-35. The eclipse notes are identical, except for some varying calculations, with those in West's The New England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary for 1768 (Providence). The calculations on the calendar pages vary (being for Boston rather than Providence), except for those of the moon's rising and setting, which are identical. Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter, Oct. 22, 1767. Booksellers' advertisements, including a proposal for printing the Boston chronicle, pages [42-44]. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |