Bickerstaff's New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord 1784 ...

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
• Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18305.

Language:

English

Genre:

• Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1784.
• Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Norwich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Trumbull, at his printing-office. Great allowance made to pedlers., [1783]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Attributed to Benjamin West by Evans and in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. volume 24 (1914): 102, 129. But the apparent calculator is Nathan Daboll. The calculations on the calendar pages, except in the tides column and a few for the moon, are identical with those in The New England almanack for 1784 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The eclipse calculations are also identical, as are the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages, except that a few of these are omitted in Bickerstaff.
• Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 30, 1783
• Advertisement for books for sale at the printer's office, pages [32].
• 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 18305).

Cited in:

• Evans 18305
• Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 260
• Drake, M. Almanacs, 362

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