Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 .. : Fitted for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25⁰ N.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818., Author.

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, English.

Genre:

Almanacs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([24]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 ...

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump, [1782]

Notes:

Attributed to Benjamin West in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and in the Dictionary of American biography. However, the eclipse notes, calculations, and notes on the calendar pages do not resemble those in West's North-American calendar for 1783 (Providence), whereas they contain frequent correspondences or similarities with Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for the same year, published at New London under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, such as to suggest a common authorship.

Two states noted. One has a four-line advertisement for booksellers and shopkeepers in Boston and Salem on p. [24]; the other dfoes not.

Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 28, 1782.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 17792

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3318

English Short Title Catalog, W35404.

OCLC:

642790473