A Pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1796 : Being leap year, and twentieth of American independence, which began July 4th, 1776. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 23 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. : To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. By Thomas & John Fleet.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 28680. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Nov. 7, 1795, as "Fleet's register." Page 1, preceding the register, contains the copyright notice dated Oct. 23, and includes Nathaniel Low's An astronomical diary or almanack for 1796, also published by Fleet. The notice was printed in the Centinel for Oct. 28. The issue for 1797 is entitled Fleets pocket almanack. The Pocket almanack was calculated by Nathanael Low. The eclipse page is practically identical with that in his An astronomical diary or almanack for 1796, the calculations on the calendar pages are similarly identical with slight variations, and the weather predictions generally correspond. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 20 unnumbered pages, 148 pages ; 14 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |