The New-England almanack, for 1786. And gentlemen and ladies diary, for the year of our Lord Christ ..
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Hartford, latitude 41 deg. 56 min. north
By: By Isaac Bickerstaff
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44651
Publisher: Printed by Elisha Babcock.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: The eclipse predictions are identical, except for a typographical error, with those found in the New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1786 (New London), calculated by Nathan Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The contents of the title page, except for the meridian, author statement, and imprint, duplicate those of "Freebetter."

The calendar pages contain scarcely any resemblances to Freebetter. Most of their astronomical notes (chiefly aspects), but not their calculations, duplicate those in Nehemiah Strong's almanac for the same year and meridian, An Astronomical ephemeris, calendar, or almanack (Hartford).

Reprint of The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1786, by Isaac Bickerstaff, published at Hartford by Barlow & Babcock. Joel Barlow, Babcock's partner, retired in November 1785. The subtitle of the reprint has been inadvertently transposed below the year.

Signatures: [A]⁶ B⁶.

Bristol B6115

Shipton & Mooney 44651

Drake, M. Almanacs, 387