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The New-England diary: or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1737 [electronic resource] : ... Fitted to the horizon of Boston in N.E. whose latitude is 42 deg. 25 min. north, and about 71 grs. west of London, but may without sensible errors (tides excepted) serve all the adjacent places from Newfoundland to Carolina. By a native of New-England. [Eight lines of verse].

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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 -- 1737.
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, 1737.
Notes:
At head of title: MDCCXXXVII. At foot of title: Price four shillings by the dozen, & six pence single.
Preface signed: Nathan Bowen. Bowen indicates here that he intends to issue an almanac for 1738, and its existence was assumed by Evans. None was advertised by Fleet, and no copy is known.
First advertised in the Boston evening post, of which Fleet was publisher, Jan. 17, 1737.
The Anatomy is the only illustration.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Cited in:
Evans, 3995
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3053
English Short Title Catalog, W10493.
OCLC:
510950836

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