Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774 ... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25$ n. ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 13074. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| 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 notes are identical, and the calendar page notes practically so, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1774 (Providence). The calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are identical, though the rest vary, being for Boston rather than Providence. Some copies illustrated with a copperplate engraving, others with a woodcut. Both are signed by Joseph Callender. Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston post-boy, Oct. 18-25, 1773. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint. Advertisement for printing work and books for sale by Mills and Hicks, page 32. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 32 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |