The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for the year of our Lord Christ 1799 ... By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[24] p. ; 12°.

Place of Publication:

[Providence] : Printed at Providence (R.I.) by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold, wholesale and retail, at their book and stationary store, opposite the market. (Great allowance made to those who purchase quantities.), [1798]

Notes:

"Isaac Bickerstaff" is a common pseudonym in almanacs.

Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator was Nathan Daboll. The predictions of eclipses and of the transit of Mercury are a briefer version of those in his New England almanac and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1799 (New London), and most of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are identical or nearly so. The calculations for the moon are identical throughout. The others vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between New London and Providence.

West and Carter, the publisher, severed relations with the 1781 issue. West's almanac was published thereafter at Providence by Bennett Wheeler as the North American calendar, while Carter continued the New England almanack over the Bickerstaff pseudonym, with which West is often identified. Cf. Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs, 1643-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): 24-26.

Advertised in the Providence gazette, Nov. 10, 1798.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 35002; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1556; Drake, M. Almanacs, 12961