The New-England almanack, or, Lady's and gentleman's diary, for the year of our Lord Christ 1786 ...
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Providence ...
By: By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; philom.
Contributors: Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.; West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19375.
Publisher: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare's Head, near the State-House.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: "Isaac Bickerstaff" is a common pseudonym in almanacs.

Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are practically identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1786 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are similar, and the calculations for the moon are identical. The other calculations on these pages vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between New London and Providence.

West and Carter, the publisher, severed relations with the 1781 issue. West's almanac was published thereafter at Providence by Bennett Wheeler as the North American calendar, while Carter continued the New England almanack over the Bickerstaff pseudonym with which West is often identified. Cf. Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs, 1643-850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): 24-26.

Advertised in the Providence gazette, Oct. 1, 1785.

Evans 19375

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1001

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12883

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19375).