Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1773 ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12613
Publisher: Printed by John Fleeming, and to be sold at his shop in King-Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house (Price seven coppers single, and 25s. old tenor or 3s. 4d. lawful the dozen.) (Great allowance to those who buy to sell again.)
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Notes: The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The calendar page notes correspond to a significant extent with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1773 (Providence). The calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are identical, though the others vary, being for Boston rather than Providence. There is little correspondence in the eclipse notes.

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Oct. 5, 1772.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing the price statement.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴.

Evans 12613

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