Isaiah Thomas, Junior's town & country almanack, or Complete farmer's calendar, for the year of our Lord 1813 ... : Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will seerve without essential variation for the adjacent states...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houghton, Asa, 1775-1829.

Graves, Gilbert.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25727.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1813.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Worcester.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Town and country almanack ... for the year of our Lord 1813 ..

Place of Publication:

[Worcester, Mass.] : Printed at Worcester, by Isaac Sturtevant, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Sold wholesale and retail at his respective bookstores in Boston and Worcester; also, by Thomas & Andrews, Boston; by Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport; Henry Whipple, Salem; and by many booksellers in the Newengland states. Price 9 dollars per gross--87 1/2 cents per dozen--12 1/2 cents single., [1812]

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Notes:

The calculations in the columns of the calendar pages are in part identical with, and in part vary slightly from, those in Houghton's genuine almanac for 1813, ("astronomical part by Asa Houghton") (Shaw & Shoemaker 25689). As is the case with previous issues in the Thomas series compared with Houghton's, the variations give the impression of being adjustments by the same calculator rather than the separate work of another. The predictions of eclipses and other "curious' astronomical phenomena, at the front of the present issues of Thomas's and Houghton's, likewise appear to be by the same hand (the Thomas version being abbreviated).

The 1813 Thomas almanac appears to be the joint work of Asa Houghton and Gilbert Graves. Copies of letters by Graves, accompanied by photostats of letters by Isaiah Thomas to or concerning Graves, are in the American Antiquarian Society's manuscript collection. These indicate that Graves calculated Isaiah Thomas Junior's town & country almanacs for 1813, 1814, and 1815, the 1813 issue in collaboration with Asa Houghton.

Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Nov. 4, 1812.

Title vignette.

Advertisement for the Boston and Worcester bookstores of Isaiah Thomas, Jr., p. [48].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25727).

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