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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774 [electronic resource] : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25⁰ n. ...

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Boston : Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office, in School-Street, next to Cromwell's Head Tavern, (Price seven coppers single, and three and four pence the dozen.), [1773]
Physical Description
32 pages, 1 unnumbered pagefolded leaf : illustrations ; 12⁰.
Additional Creators
West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
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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 eclipse notes are identical, and the calendar page notes practically so, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1774 (Providence). The calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are identical, though the rest vary, being for Boston rather than Providence.
Some copies illustrated with a copperplate engraving, others with a woodcut. Both are signed by Joseph Callender.
Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston post-boy, Oct. 18-25, 1773.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.
Advertisement for printing work and books for sale by Mills and Hicks, p. 32.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
Available online to authorized PSU users as part of the General reference series of Eighteenth century collections online.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Reviewed/Cited In
Evans, C. American bibliography, 13074
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3230
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCW22544.
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