Fleets pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1788. : Being leap year, and the twelfth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20361.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massachusetts--Registers.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1788.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Registers (Lists)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 unnumbered pages, 130 id est, 128 pages, 4 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed and sold by T. and J. Fleet, at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill., [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Entered by Evans under the publishers, Thomas and John Fleet, who are named in the 1789, 1791, and 1794-96 issues as editors of the Register.

The almanac was apparently calculated by Nathanael Low. The notes ([pages4]) on eclipses, the blazing star, and the planet Venus practically duplicate those in his An astronomical diary or almanack for 1788, also published by Fleet. The calendar page calculations are also identical for the most part, with some slight variations.

Advertised in the Boston gazette, Nov. 5, 1787.

Error in paging: pages 69-128 misnumbered 71-130.

"Additions, alterations, &c."--p. 128.

Publishers' advertisement, pages [132].

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 20361).

Cited in:

Evans 20361

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3399

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