Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1782 : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42: 25 n. But will also serve the adjacent states without any sensible error. By Abraham Weatherwise, philom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796., Author.

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, English.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([36] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1782

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly and Robert Hodge, at their office in Newbury-Street, near the Sign of the Lamb, [1781]

Notes:

Erroneously attributed to David Rittenhouse by Evans. The actual calculator appears to have been Nathan Daboll, who calculated The New England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for 1782 (New London, Conn.) under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The calculations in the eclipse predictions, though somewhat more extensive in the Weatherwise, are otherwise identical to those in the Freebetter. The calendar page calculations for the rising, setting, and phases of the moon are identical throughout, though the calculations for the sun and tides on these pages in Freebetter are fitted to Connecticut rather than Massachusetts. A majority of the astronomical and horological notes on the Freebetter calendar pages are duplicated in Weatherwise.

Advertised in the Continental journal, Boston, Sept. 27, 1781.

With one of two editions of the engraved frontispiece, "America triumphant and Britannia in distress", most easily distinguished by the arrangement of the stars in the American flag. In one edition, the top row of three stars is grouped all to the left side, while in the othe the rightmost star is separated by a fold in the flag's fabric. The latter plate is attributed to John Norman in auction catalog 34 (April 26, 1917) of Scott and O'Shaughnessy.

Publishers' advertisement, p. [2].

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 17354

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3313

English Short Title Catalog, W20838.

OCLC:

642783992