Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1787: ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states...

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Gleason, Ezra, 1748-1808?

Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19686.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1787.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Worcester.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Printed at Worcester [Mass.], : by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six-pence single.), [1786]

Notes:

Though the Thomas almanacs through 1795 were ascribed by Evans to Ezra Gleason, most can be attributed with varying degrees of certainty to other identifiable calculators. The present one, like that for 1786, is the apparent work of Samuel Stearns. When compared with his The universal calendar and the North-American almanack for 1787 (Boston), the calendar page calculations are identical, except that Thomas's almanac has several additional columns of them. The notes columns in Thomas's calender pages similarly contain more abundant astronomical matter, while Stearns' gives little more than the times for the rising, southing and setting of the 7 stars or Pleiades; but these calculations are duplicated in Thomas. The eclipse predictions on p. [3] are also practically identical with those in The universal calendar, except that those in Thomas are accompanied by a diagram.

Advertised in the Worcester magazine, Oct. 1786.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [48].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19686).

Cited in:

Evans 19686

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3383

OCLC:

227026957