Poor Richard's genuine New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1806
Subtitle: Calculated for Boston, but will serve for all the N.E. states. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 9167
Publisher: Printed by A. Newell, and for sale at his printing-office in Devonshire Street. Sold also by the booksellers in Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth, and Portland, and at several other places. Price--6 cts. single, 37 1/2 cts. doz. 4 dolls. a gross.
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Boston--
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: At head of title: (No. IV.)

The issues for the years preceding and following are entitled Poor Richard's almanack.

The author of this series of almanacs was probably their publisher, Andrew Newell. In the pamphlet entitled Darkness at noon, or The great solar eclipse of the 16th of June, 1806, by an inhabitant of Boston (Boston: D. Carlisle & A. Newell, 1806), the calculations of the eclipse and some passages concerning it correspond to those in the extensive discussion of the eclipse on p. [3-4] of the present almanac. The two subsequent almanacs in the series carry the phrase "Calculated by an inhabitant of Boston" on their title pages. Newell, to whom Darkness at noon has been attributed, began printing in 1801 and died in 1808; the Poor Richard almanac series is coterminous with these dates.

The preface to Darkness at noon states that this pamphlet on the eclipse and on eclipses generally was suggested to its author by an acquaintance, who must therefore have known him as an astronomical writer. His suggestion may have been prompted by the eclipse paragraphs in the present almanac if both works are by the same hand. Newell's obituary in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Feb. 10, 1808, describes him as "A young man possessing a philosophical, active, and vigorous mind ... He furnished the best and most accurate account of the last great solar eclipse."

Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Oct. 7, 1805.

Title vignette.

Last page includes a printer's advertisement.

Shaw & Shoemaker 9167

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3677

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.