An astronomical diary : or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42⁰ 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | (The second edition.) [Ten lines of verse]. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Advertised in the Boston evening post (T. and J. Fleet), Oct. 7, 1765: "The second edition of Ames's almanack for 1766, will be published this week.--The courts that are wrong in the Scotch [i.e., McAlpine and Fleeming's] edition will be corrected. Sold by the printers and booksellers in Boston." Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (R. & S. Draper), Oct. 10: "Dr. Nathaniel Ames's almanack .. Agreeable to the first edition, excepting several of the courts which were inserted wrong in the first, are rectified in this second edition: --also other correction by Dr. Ames's own desire." - Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement. The cut on pages [17] is a copy of that executed by Paul Revere for the McAlpine and Fleeming edition. Reproduction of original from British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |