The New-England almanack; and gentleman's and lady's diary, for the year of our Lord 1779 : ... Fitted to the horizon and meridian of New London, lat. 41 degrees 25 minutes north; long. 72 degrees 4 minutes to the westward of the observatory of Greenwich in England. / By Edmund Freebetter. ; [Six lines of verse].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15777.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1779.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New-London [Conn.]: : Printed and sold by T. Green., [1778]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

For attribution of the Freebetter series to Daboll, see: Bates, A.C. "Checklist of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 24 (1914): 125-129.

"The calculations for this almanack are the performance of the most approved astronomer in this state ..." -- note on pages [2], signed: E.F.

Advertised in the Connecticut gazette, New London, Nov. 20, 1778.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

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 15777).

Cited in:

Evans 15777

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 226

Johnson, H.A. New London, 1067

Drake, M. Almanacs, 323

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