Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemer...
Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1785 [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, but will serve without any essential variation for either of the beforementioned states. ...
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Printed at Worcester [Mass.] : by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six-pence single.), [1784]
Date
[1784]
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[36]p. : ill. ; 12°.
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Printed at Worcester [Mass.] : by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six-pence single.), [1784]
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United States of America
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[1784]
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Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1785 [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, but will serve without any essential variation for either of the beforementioned states. ...
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Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Oct. 28, 1784.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [36].
In a letter to Isaiah Thomas, dated Aug. 13, 1784, in the manuscript collection of the American Antiquarian Society, West states that he has completed and sent to Thomas the manuscript of the 1785 almanac, and discusses the subject of remuneration.
Though Evans attributes this series of almanacs through 1795 to Ezra Gleason, the present one, like that for 1784, is the work of Benjamin West. The eclipse predictions (p. [3]), the ephemeris (p. [8]), the astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and the columns on these pages giving calculations for the moon's place and its rising and setting, a...
Citation / References Note
ESTC W14318.
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3349.
Evans, 18498.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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