An astronomical diary; or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42$ 25' north. ... / By Nathaniel Ames
- Bib ID:
- 3360535
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ames, Nathaniel, 1741-1822
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/9897
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- Edition:
- (The second edition.) [Ten lines of verse]
- Description:
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- Boston: : Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers. Price 2s 8d per dozen. Six coppers single., [1765]
- [24] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 9897.
- Notes:
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- Advertised in the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), Oct. 7, 1765: "The second edition of Ames's almanack for 1766, will be published this week.--The courts that are wrong in the Scotch [i.e., McAlpine and Fleeming's] edition will be corrected. Sold by the printers and booksellers in Boston." Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (R. & S. Draper), Oct. 10: "Dr. Nathaniel Ames's almanack ... Agreeable to the first edition, excepting several of the courts which were inserted wrong in the first, are rectified in this second edition: --also other correction by Dr. Ames's own desire."
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement.
- The cut on p. [17] is a copy of that executed by Paul Revere for the McAlpine and Fleeming edition.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Evans 9897
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3149
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 9897). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1822
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1765
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