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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, or, Federal calendar, for 1790. : Second after leap-year; and fourteenth of independency.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22270.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1790.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : portraits
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : Printed by E. Russell, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had cheap to travelling-traders, andc. the Bloody register, numbers 4., [1789]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- This almanac is unique in that, as discussed in the preface by "I Bickerstaff," the notes on the calendar pages contain no astronomical calculations or weather predictions, but consist only of a calendar of events. The calculations of rising and setting of the sun and moon, the eclipses, et cetera do not tally significantly with those of any known calculator for this year. The prose portion of the almanac includes the last two pages of the topographical description of America by Osgood Carleton, of which the greater part, together with Carleton's calculations, appeared in the issue for the previous year.
- The calculations in the present issue bear only slight resemblance to those in the almanac published under Carleton's name for 1790. The general tone of the facetious preface suggests the work of an amateur. It is clearly not that of the professional Benjamin West, to whom the almanac is attributed by Evans and others.
- Edition statement transposed from foot of title page.
- The first edition was advertised in the Herald of freedom, Boston, Nov. 20, 1789.
- "A poem, on Gen. Washington.--Composed in 1782, but never before published.--By J. Plumer, a citizen of the world."--p. [3-4].
- 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 22270).
- Cited in:
- Evans 22270
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3430
- Contains:
- Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819. Poem, on Gen. Washington.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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