An astronomical diary, or almanack, for the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1817... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, Mass. latitude 42° 23' North, but will serve without any error of consequence for any of the New-England states. ; [One-line Latin motto].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spofford, Thomas, 1795-

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 36769.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1817.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Haverhill [Mass.]: : Published by Burrill & Tileston, and sold at their bookstore. C. Norris & Co. printers, Exeter., [1816]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Advertised in the Merrimack intelligencer, Haverhill, Nov. 2, 1816.

Spofford's first almanac. See C.L. Nichols, Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., v. 22 (1912), p. 37, 104. The Intelligencer advertisement states the almanac to be "calculated by a young gentleman in this vicinity, who has filled his pages with a taste, which will make it in the interest of every gentleman to furnish himself with one of them."

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. 36769).

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