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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 [electronic resource] : Fitted for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25$ N
Bib ID 3361463
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
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Description Boston, : Printed and sold by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump., [1782] 
[24] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo) 
Series

Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 17792.

Notes

Attributed to Benjamin West in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and in the Dictionary of American biography. However, the eclipse notes, calculations, and notes on the calendar pages do not resemble those in West's North-American calendar for 1783 (Providence), whereas they contain frequent correspondences or similarities with Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for the same year, published at New London under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, such as to suggest a common authorship.

Two states noted. One has a four-line advertisement for booksellers and shopkeepers in Boston and Salem on p. [24]; the other dfoes not.

Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 28, 1782.

Pages [7-21] contain a final installment of the poem "America invincible", issued separately by Russell in 1779. Sections appeared previously in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1779 (Russell), Russell's American almanack for 1780, 1781, and 1782, and Bickerstaff's Boston almanack (Russell) for 1782. The present installment concludes: "End of Book I. To be continued," but no more appeared in the succeeding almanacs published by Russell.

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Cited In

Evans 17792

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3318

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. 17792). Mode of access : World Wide Web. 
Form/genre Almanacs
Place United States Massachusetts Boston.
Other authors/contributors West, Benjamin, 1730-1813  |  Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818
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America invincible.

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