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An astronomical diary: or almanack, for the year of our Lord 1796: ... Calculated for the meridian and latitude of Boston; but will serve without sensible variation for the adjacent states. / By A. Weatherwise, philom. ; [Four lines of verse].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bullard, Samuel, 1742-1816, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29846.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1796.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed for B. Larkin, E. Larkin, S. Hall, J. West, Cornhill; J. Boyle, D. West, Marlboro' Street; J. Bumstead, Union Street, and other booksellers in Boston., [1795]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Title within decorative border. Surrounding border: 12s. per groce. Calculations equal to Low's, or any other. 16d. per dozen. Bumstead's edition.
- Apparently by Osgood Carleton. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical with the corresponding columns among those in Carleton's Almanack for 1796 (Boston: W.P. Blake), which devotes two pages to each month. The astronomical notes on the same pages correspond to those in Carleton's almanac, except that the latter has more of them and with frequent slight differences in the calculations here. The weather predictions on the same pages are generally parallel.
- Identical in typography and contents, except for title page, with An astronomical diary: or Almanack, for 1796, by A. Weatherwise (Boston: same imprint with the omission of S. Hall and J. Boyle). Last page includes an advertisement by Bumstead.
- Advertised by E. Larkin in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Nov. 12, 1795.
- 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 29846).
- Cited in:
- Evans 29846
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3544
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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