Hutchins improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1799 ...
By: By John Nathan Hutchins, philom.
Contributors: Hutchins, John Nathan, d. 1782.; Beers, Andrew, 1749-1824.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 33920.
Publisher: Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at his printing-office, at the Bible, in Pearl-Street. Where may be had, the New-York pocket almanack.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 36
Notes: Hutchins died in 1782, and the calculator of the present almanac is Andrew Beers. The eclipse predictions (slightly lengthened), the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages (with a few omissions), and the calculationms for the rising and setting of the moon, are identical with those in his Beers's almanac for 1799, published at Hartford. The other calculations vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between Hartford and New York. An advertisement for Beers's surveying business appears on p. [34]

Two states of gathering E noted, with E3 verso and E4 containing different texts. In one, E3 verso begins: Courts in the state of New-York. In the other, E3 verso begins with the text: Some ancient philosophers have said ..

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F².

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Booksellers' advertisement for Gaine and Philip Ten Eyck, p. [3]

Evans 33920.

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 6083.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33920)