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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1777... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 25$ n...
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14777.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hancock, John, 1737-1793--Portraits.
- Hancock, John.
- Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1777.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 pages:) : illustrations, 1 portrait
- Place of Publication:
- America. Salem [Mass.], : Printed by E. Russell, in Main-Str. (Pr. 8d.), [1776]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Though attributed by Evans to Ezra Gleason, this almanac is one of the Bickerstaff series generally regarded as the work of Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. volume 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse notes and the notes on the calendar pages are identical, except for a slight variance in the calculations, with those in West's New England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1777 (Providence : John Carter). The preface is signed: Isaac Bickerstaff.
- Title vignette: portrait of John Hancock. Followed by 18 lines of verse "On the Hon. John Hancock, Esq. By a lady."
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 14777).
- Cited in:
- Evans 14777
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3266
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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