The Town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1797. : ... Fitted to the town of Norwich .. / By Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31616.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1797.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Norwich.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (4to)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Printed in Norwich (Connecticut), : by John Trumbull, and sold at his printing office, a few rods west from the meeting-house, in large or small quantities., [1796]

Notes:

Evans attributes this almanac to Benjamin West, as he does nearly all those issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym.

Calculated by Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions duplicate those in his New England almanac and gentlemen and ladies'diary for 1797 (New London) with the omission of one sentence. The moon calculations and most of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are identical with Daboll's. The calculations for the sun vary in part, and those for the tides altogether, reflecting the difference in meridian between the two almanacs.

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 20, 1796.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Printer's advertisement, p. [48].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31616).

Cited in:

Evans 31616

Drake, M. Almanacs, 567

OCLC:

55827909