Bickerstaff's improved almanack, for the year of our Lord 1785 ... : Referred to the horison of 41 deg. 35 min. n. lat and a meridian of 4 h 30 min w. from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; but may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut, and the adjacent parts...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18879.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1785.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Norwich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed and sold by John Trumbull, at his office, near the meeting-house., [1784]

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, 136. But the actual calculator is Nathan Daboll. The calculations for the rising and setting of the sun and moon, and most of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages, are identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1785 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter.

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Sept. 23, 1784.

Advertisement for books and stationery sold at the printer's office, pages [24].

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 18879).

Cited in:

Evans 18879

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 261

Drake, M. Almanacs, 371

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