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An astronomical diary, or Almanack, for the year of Christian aera, 1781 ... : calculated for the meridian of Boston in America, latitude 42 degrees 25 minutes north / by Nathanael Low.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AY51 .B56 1755 1781
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs, American--Massachusetts.
- Almanacs, American.
- Massachusetts.
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 18th century.
- Annotations (Provenance) -- Massachusetts -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Almanack, for the year of Christian aera, 1781
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, J. Gill and N. Willis in Court Street, [1780]
- Notes:
- Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Oct. 26, 1780. Cf. ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
- Title within an ornamental border.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy interleaved with ms. diary of Moses Hale recording each day's weather and events; copious ms. notes in margins.
- 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 1756, 1771 (2 copies, one the father's, the other the son's), and 1777, 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:
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3295
- Evans 16821
- Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 22
- ESTC W22501
- OCLC:
- 14843766
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