The New-England diary: or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1736 [electronic resource] : ... Fitted to the horizon of Boston in N.E. whose lat. is 42 deg 25 min. north, and about 71 grs. west of London, but may without sensible error (tides excepted) serve all the adjacent places from Newfoundland to Carolina. By a native of New-England. [Seven lines of verse].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Nathan, 1698-1776.

Contributor:

Fleet, Thomas, 1685-1758, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English--United States--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, English.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1736.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([16]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

New-England diary

Place of Publication:

Boston, in New-England : Printed by T. Fleet, for the booksellers, and sold at their shops, 1736 [i.e., 1735]

Notes:

At head of title: MDCCXXXVI. At foot of title: Price four shillings by the dozen, & six pence single.

This issue, unlike most of the earlier almanacs by "the native of New-England," is unsigned; but the entire series is attributed to Nathan Bowen. Cf. Evans, and C.L. Nichols, Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts, Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., n.s. 22 (1912): 30.

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Oct. 20, 1735.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 3877

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3050

English Short Title Catalog, W35460.

OCLC:

511241322