Bickerstaff's genuine Massachusetts, Rhodeisland and Connecticut almanack, for the year of our Lord 1791 ... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston; but will serve without essential variation for all the New-England states ..

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23070.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1791.

Physical Description:

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

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed [by Nathaniel Coverly] and sold by the booksellers, in town and country., [1790]

Notes:

Evans attributes the calculations to Benjamin West, as he does those of nearly all almanacs issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym. The calculator was Osgood Carleton. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical with those in his An astromonical diary: or, An almanack for 1791 (Boston: S. Hall). The eclipse predictions (p. [2]) are also identical, except that only three of the four cuts in the Astronomical diary have been copied for the present almanac. The notes on the calendar pages are closely similar and frequently identical, except that the present almanac omits half of them, particularly the astronomical material.

Identical in typography and contents with Weatherwise's genuine Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut almanack for ... 1791 ... Boston: Printed and sold by N. Coverly.

Two states of the title page noted by Drake. One has a woodcut of the Ark on the title page. The other has two woodcuts side by side on the title page, and an ampersand rather than "and" before the word "country" in imprint.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23070).

Cited in:

Evans 23070

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3451

OCLC:

55836613