Poor Clergyman's almanack; or, An astronomical diary & serious monitor, for the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1809... : Calculated for the metropolis of Massachusetts, lat. 42°.23'. North. But will serve for any of the New England states...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vinson, Thomas, 1756-1841.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 15971.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1809.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston: : --Printed for and for sale by Lincoln & Edmands, at their bookstore, no. 53, Cornhill, and by other booksellers and traders both in town and country (Price 4 dolls. per gross, 37 1/2 cents per dozen, and 6 cents single.) E.G. House, printer., [1808]

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The almanac was apparently calculated by Thomas Vinson, author of Vincent's [sic] almanack for 1809, also printed at Boston by E.G. House (Shaw & Shoemaker 16638). The eclipse predictions (p. [3]) are a close version of the wording of those in Vincent's, with a few differences of one minute in the calculations. The calculations on the calendar pages are likewise partly identical and partly divergent by (usually) one minute. In the notes column on these pages, the aspects and other astronomical data are identical, though much of the other material here differs or is omitted. The column in Vincent's for the moon's southing is also omitted. According to its title page, Vincent's was calculated for the New England states, but not specifically for Boston.

At head of title: No. I.

Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Dec. 8, 1808.

Subsequent issues entitled: The Clergyman's almanack.

Two states noted. In one, the imprint reads "Boston:--Printed for and for sale by Lincoln & Edmands, at their bookstore ... " The last page contains "Extracts from an exposition on the parable of the Unclean Spirit" and concludes with six lines of verse entitled "Happiness." In another, the imprint reads "Boston:--Printed for Lincoln & Edmands, and sold at their bookstore ... " The extracts from an exposition on the parable begin at the foot of p. [23], leaving room at the foot of p. [24] for an advertisement by Lincoln & Edmands for "Books, stationary, and commercial and justice's blanks."

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

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