Bickerstaff's New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1780. ...
Subtitle: Referred to the horizon of 41 degrees, 35 minutes, north-latitude, and a meridian of 4 hours, 30 minutes west, from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; fitting Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Massachusetts-Bay, New Hampshire, and New-York. ..
Contributors: West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16672
Publisher: Printed and sold wholesale and retail, by John Trumbull, near the meeting-house. (Great allowance made to those who take a quantity.)
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Norwich [Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Attributed to Benjamin West by Evans and in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850" Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 24 (1914): 102, 129

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 5, 1779

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription

Two settings of gathering C noted. In one, C1 recto begins with "Curiosity, the folly and danger of it." In the other, it begins with "A Dutch anecdote." Leaves C1, C2, and the recto of C3 differ in content; C3 verso and C4 differ only in typography

Evans 16672

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut, 256

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 328

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16672)