An astronomical diary or, almanack, for the year of Christian aera, 1778. : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston in America; lat. 42 deg. 25 min. north. / By Nathaniel Low.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15381.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1778.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by J. Gill, in Court-Street and T. and J. Fleet, in Cornhill. (Price 1s. single, and 9s the dozen.), [1777]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Advertised in the Continental journal, Boston, Nov. 27, 1777.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing price statement in imprint.

The title vignette (Reilly 1785), a woodcut of the Man of Signs or Anatomical Man, is identical line for line with that on pages [2] of Thomas Robie's An almanack of the coelestial motions, aspects, and eclipses for 1716 (Boston: T. Fleet and T. Crump). The Robie cut itself appears to have been copied from the one which appeared in John Tully's An almanack for 1693 (Boston: Benjamin Harris) and which continued in use in many of the almanacs printed by Bartholomew Green as late as 1723. The Robie version (in which the spelling of "Pisces" is corrected) appears also in the North-American calendar and gentlemen and ladies diary, being an almanack for 1773, by Samuel Stearns (Boston: Edes and Gill and T. and J. Fleet); and with other engravings in that almanac was attributed to Paul Revere in: Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings (Worcester, Mass., 1954), pages 136. Its final appearance seems to have been in Low's almanac for 1779 (J. Gill and T. and J. Fleet), and it thus had evidently remained in the Fleets' possession and use for at least 63 years.

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 15381).

Cited in:

Evans 15381

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3272

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