Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1784
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New England, lat. 42: 25 n. But will also serve the adjacent states without any sensible error
By: By Abraham Weatherwise, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18164
Publisher: Printed and sold by Norman and White at their office in Marshall's Lane, near the Boston Stone.
Published: 1783
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Erroneously attributed to David Rittenhouse by Evans. The actual author was Daniel George. The calculations in the eclipse predictions and on the calendar pages are identical with those in his An almanack for 1784 (Boston), except for a few differences of one minute in the times for the moon's rising and setting. Most of the calendar page notes, especially the astronomical notes, are also identical, except that the aspects are omitted in Weatherwise.

The notes include calculations for the rising and setting of the "Yard L", or Yard and Ell (the belt of Orion), and of the "Eagle's Heart" (Altair). The former, in Massachusetts almanacs, are found at this time only in the work of George and of Nathaniel Low, and the latter only in George.

Publishers' proposal for the Boston magazine, dated Sept. 20, 1783, p. [2].

Another issue, identical in content and typography, has imprint: Printed for and sold by Nathaniel Coverly. The Coverly issue has a comma after "country" in the title.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

Woodcut illustrated cover, "Washington--victory doth thy trumpets sound, who are with laurals cover'd round!"

Evans 18164

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3337