An astronomical diary, or an almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1756, being bissextile or leap year, in the 29th year of the reign of King George II : wherein are contained the lunations, eclipses of the luminaries, aspects, courts, spring-tides, judgment of the weather, suna and moon's rising and sitting, time of high-water, account of the provinces, etc. : calculated for the meridian of Boston in New-England, lat. 42 deg. 25 min. North / by Nathaniel Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764.

Contributor:

Hale, Moses, 1715-1779.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American--Massachusetts.

Almanacs, American.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 18th century.

Annotations (Provenance) -- Massachusetts -- Newbury -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Hale, Moses, 1715-1779

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1756

Place of Publication:

Boston, N.E. : Printed by J. Draper, for the booksellers, [1755]

Notes:

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 24, 1755.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has first and last leaves detached.

Penn Libraries copy interleaved with ms. diary of Rev. Moses Hale recording each day's weather, events and sermons preached.

Penn Libraries copy housed in a box with 1 ms. journal for 1738 written by Rev. Moses Hale and 4 other Massachusetts almanacs for the years 1771 (2 copies, one the father's, the other the son's), 1777, and 1781, all annotated by Rev. Moses Hale or his son, Moses Hale, of Newbury, Massachusetts. Box has title: Ames almanack with manuscript Hale diaries.

Cited in:

Evans 7348

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3103

OCLC:

24395428