An astronomical diary; or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42° 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Nathaniel, 1741-1822 29456

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[24]p. : ill. ; 8°.

Edition:

(The second edition.) [Ten lines of verse].

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers. Price 2s 8d per dozen. Six coppers single, [1765]

Notes:

Advertised in the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), Oct. 7, 1765: "The second edition of Ames's almanack for 1766, will be published this week.--The courts that are wrong in the Scotch [i.e., McAlpine and Fleeming's] edition will be corrected. Sold by the printers and booksellers in Boston." Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (R. & S. Draper), Oct. 10: "Dr. Nathaniel Ames's almanack .. Agreeable to the first edition, excepting several of the courts which were inserted wrong in the first, are rectified in this second edition: --also other correction by Dr. Ames's own desire." - Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement.

The cut on p. [17] is a copy of that executed by Paul Revere for the McAlpine and Fleeming edition.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 9897; Drake, M. Almanacs, 3149