An astronomical diary; or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1768 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, latt. 42? 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames. [Twelve lines of verse]

People / Organizations

• Nathaniel Ames (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers [i.e., Printed and sold by Richard Draper, T. & J. Fleet, Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell], at 2s/8d. per dozen, and five coppers single, [1767]

Publication year

1767-1767

ESTC No.

W22475

Grub Street ID

332304

Description

[24]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Presumably the edition advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (Draper), Oct. 29 (supplement), 1767 as in the press, and in the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), the Boston gazette (Edes & Gill) and the Boston post-boy (Green & Russell), all for Nov. 16, as for sale. No other Boston edition for 1768 is known. Drake, 3158, lists one by Kneeland and Adams, but this is not recorded elsewhere, and is doubtless an error for his 3161 (Nathaniel Low). Evans 10540-10541, takes the printer to be William McAlpine, evidently through extrapolation from th McAlpine editions of other years.

Two states of gathering C noted. One (Evans 10541) contains "Save your money, and you save your country" at head of p. [17] and "Vacations at Harvard College" at foot of p. [24]. The other (Evans 10540) contains "A table of the duration of life," on p. 17, and an advertisemen for the paper mill at Milton at foot of p. [24].

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-C?. - READEX NOTE: The copy filmed as Evans 10540 has both states of gathering C, and is misleadingly described as [32] p