Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our Lord 1785 ...
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Boston
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18875
Publisher: Printed and sold (wholesale & retail) by John W. Folsom, on the west side of the market. Sold also by the principal book-sellers in town and country.
Published: 1784
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Attributed by Evans to Benjamin West, evidently on the basis of West's association with the name Bickerstaff; but the almanac bears no resemblance to that issued by West under his own name for this year, The North-American calendar (Providence). It appears instead to be an amalgam of the work of three Connecticut calculators. The eclipse notes, with a slight variation in the calculations, duplicate those in An astronomical ephemeris, calendar, or almanack for 1785, by Nehemiah Strong (Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin), but the calendar pages bear little resemblance to Strong's.

The times for the rising, setting, and phases of the moon are identical with those in Eben Warner Judd's an astronomical diary or Almanack for 1785 (Hartford). The astronomical notes on the calendar pages contain frequent correspondences with those in Nathan Daboll's A register for the state of Connecticut with an almanack for 1785 (New London) and with those in Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1785 (New London), issued under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter.

Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 25, 1784.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁸.

Evans 18875

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