The New-England diary, or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1725
Subtitle: ... Apply'd to the horizon of Boston, N. England, where the north pole is raised, and the south pole depress'd equal to an angle of 42 grs. 25 m and a meridian 4 ho. & 44 min. west of London
By: By a native of New-England. ; [Six lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 2506
Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Green, and sold also at the booksellers shops.
Published: 1724
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: At head of title: MDCCXXV.

Signed on p. [24]: N. Bowen.

As in his almanac for the previous year, Bowen severely criticizes the 1724 almanac of Nathaniel Whittemore (B. Green's edition) on p. [17-19] and replies to that author's comments on himself. This material is omitted in the issue of the present almanac printed at Boston by J. Franklin, said to be "not a true Bowen, but a pirated almanac." Cf. Nichols, Charles L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., n.s. 22 (1912): 54. The calculations on the calendar pages of the two issues are basically identical but include some slight variations. The notes on the calendar pages largely differ, particularly in that the Franklin issue omits the abundant planetary and zodiacal information found in the present edition, and includes church days, which Green's issue lacks. The respective eclipse notes are versions of each other. Later almanac authors occasionally prepared similarly varying editions for different publishers, and possibly the two present versions are both legitimate and intended for different audiences.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁴.

Evans 2506

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3013