A Friend's astronomical diary, or Almanac, for the year of Christian aera, 1796 ...
Subtitle: calculated for the meridian of Boston, Massachusetts, lat. 42 deg. 25 min. north., but may serve for any of the New-England states
By: by Benjamin Fry, who had his education in astronomy under the tuition of Dr. Nathaniel Low, of Berwick
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 28719
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for William P. Blake
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Society of Friends; Almanacs
Other titles: Almanac, for the year of Christian aera, 1796
Notes: The calendar pages, eclipse notes, and other astronomical material are identical with those in Fry's almanac of the same title published at Portsmouth, N.H., by Charles Peirce. In the preface to his next almanac, An astronomical diary; or Almanac for 1797 (Portsmouth: C. Peirce), Fry states: I think it prudent here to mention, that somebody has taken the liberty to publish an almanac for the meridian of Boston (for 1796) and prefix my name as author: (the calculations probably are mine; but many other matters very different:) by which both myself and the public are much imposed upon: but I here inform that it was not my act, and beg that the public may not be deceived in future.

"Copyright for 1796, secured."

Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Oct. 31, 1795.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C² D⁴.

Evans 28719

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 3550

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