Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1772 ... [electronic resource].
Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1772 ... [electronic resource].
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Boston : Printed by John Fleeming. and to be sold at his shop in King Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house. (Price seven coppers single, and 25s. old tenor or 3s.4d lawful the dozen.), [1771]
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[1771]
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[40]p. : ill., port. ; 12°.
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Boston : Printed by John Fleeming. and to be sold at his shop in King Street, opposite the south-door of the town-house. (Price seven coppers single, and 25s. old tenor or 3s.4d lawful the dozen.), [1771]
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United States of America
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[1771]
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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1772 ... [electronic resource].
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Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston weekly news-letter, Oct. 3, 1771, supplement.
Advertisements for books, stationery, and printing and binding work, p. [40].
Reproduction of original from British Library.
The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse predictions are identical, and calendar page notes correspond closely, with those in...
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ESTC W14316.
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3210.
Evans, 12281.
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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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