Fleets pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1788 Being leap year, and the twelfth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Low, Nathanael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Printed and sold by T. & J. Fleet, at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill 1787, [1787]
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:"Additions, alterations, &c."--p. 128. - Advertised in the Boston gazette, Nov. 5, 1787. - Drake, M. Almanacs, 3399. - English Short Title Catalog, W29783. - Entered by Evans under the publishers, Thomas and John Fleet, who are named in the 1789, 1791, and 1794-96 issues as editors of the Register. - Error in paging: p. 69-128 misnumbered 71-130. - Evans, 20361. - Publishers' advertisement, p. [132]. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The almanac was apparently calculated by Nathanael Low. The notes ([p.4]) on eclipses, the blazing star, and the planet Venus practically duplicate those in his An astronomical diary or almanack for 1788, also published by Fleet. The calendar page calculations are also identical for the most part, with some slight variations
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([20],130[i.e., 128],[4]p) 12°