A pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1786
Subtitle: being the second after leap year, and the tenth of American independence : calculated for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north, longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19006
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. & J. Fleet, at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Registers; Politics and government
Notes: Entered by Evans under the publishers, Thomas and John Fleet, who are named in the 1789, 1791, and 1794-96 issues as editors of the Register.

The almanac was probably calculated by Nathanael Low. The notes on the eclipses are practically identical with those in his An astronomical diary or almanack for 1785, also published by Fleet. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical in part and in part vary slightly.

Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Nov. 10, 1785, as "A Pocket almanack ... with the Massachusetts register, &c. annexed."

Signatures: pi¹² [1]⁴ 2-6⁶ 7¹⁴ 8⁶ 9⁴.

Error in paging: p. 93-115 misnumbered 92-114.

"The declaration of the rights of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, agreed upon at framing their new constitution of civil government ..."--p. [1-6], 1st count.

"The Massachusetts register ..."--115, [1] p., 2nd count. Publisher's advertisements on p. 110, 115, and [116].

Evans 19006

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 3364

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