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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1772 ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Benjamin, 1730-1813., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs--1772.
- Almanacs.
- Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.
- Almanacs, English.
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1772.
- Almanacs.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([40]p. ) ill., port. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by John Fleeming. and to be sold at his shop in King Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house. (Price seven coppers single, and 25s. old tenor or 3s.4d lawful the dozen.), [1771]
- Notes:
- The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse predictions are identical, and calendar page notes correspond closely, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1772 (Providence). The calendar page calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are also identical, though the others vary, being for Boston rather than Providence.
- Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston weekly news-letter, Oct. 3, 1771, supplement.
- Advertisements for books, stationery, and printing and binding work, p. [40].
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 12281
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3210
- English Short Title Catalog, W14316.
- OCLC:
- 642770069
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