An astronomical diary, or An almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1761
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston in New-England, lat. 42 degrees 25 min. north
By: By Nathaniel Ames. ; [Eight lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 8530
Publisher: Printed by D. and J. Kneeland, for D. Henchman, J. Phillips, J. Edwards, & T. Leverett, in Cornhill; M. Dennis, near Scarlet's Wharfe; J. Winter, in Union-Street; S. Webb, in Ann-Street, J. Perkins, near the mill-bridge, and W. McAlpine, in Marlborough-Street.
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: At head of title: Ames 1761.

The title page includes the phrase "In the 34th year of the reign of King George II." George II died Oct. 25, 1760; hence the imprint date is almost certainly incorrect. Two successive issues of Draper's edition were printed, with the title-page phrase altered in the second to conform with the royal succession. The present almanac seems to be a pirated edition of the first Draper issue, brought out immediately after it.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

The title vignette is a crude imitation of that in the edition printed by J. Draper.

Evans 8530

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3128