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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1775 : being the third after leap-year...

Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1775 : being the third after leap-year...

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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1775 : being the third after leap-year, the fifteenth of the reign of George III, and from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5723, but the 79th from the horrid, popish, High-Church Jacobite plot wherein may be found all things necessary, useful and fitting for such a work : calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. ... to which is added An account of the inhabitants of New Zealand ...An account of the singular customs of the Chactaws ... as also The substance of the first charter granted to the province of Massachusetts Bay ; with a variety of jocular and other matter.

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Full title

Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1775 : being the third after leap-year, the fifteenth of the reign of George III, and from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5723, but the 79th from the horrid, popish, High-Church Jacobite plot wherein may be found all things necessary, useful and fitting for such a work : calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. ... to which is added An account of the inhabitants of New Zealand ...An account of the singular customs of the Chactaws ... as also The substance of the first charter granted to the province of Massachusetts Bay ; with a variety of jocular and other matter.

Publisher

Boston : Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, [1775]

Date

[1775]

Call Numbers

031.02/12

Record Identifier

74VMQ3VdNQAl

MMS ID

991000460909702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

32 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Publication information

Publisher

Boston : Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, [1775]

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

[1775]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Early American almanac which includes results of James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand and Australia.

Alternative Titles

Full title

Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1775 : being the third after leap-year, the fifteenth of the reign of George III, and from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5723, but the 79th from the horrid, popish, High-Church Jacobite plot wherein may be found all things necessary, useful and fitting for suc...

Portion of title

Account of the inhabitants of New Zealand.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Account of the inhabitants of New Zealand collected from Dr. Hawkesworth's compilation of the voyages to to the Southern Hemisphere.

Mitchell Library copy : 1 copper engraving on front cover after Sydney Parkinson (2 natives of New Holland advancing to combat; a New Zealand warrior in his proper dress and armor)

Mitchell Library copy : ill. on cover, title on inside cover, covers dusty and rubbed....

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

031.02/12

Record Identifier

74VMQ3VdNQAl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQ3VdNQAl

Other Identifiers

DDC

031.02

MMS ID

991000460909702626

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