An astronomical diary; or almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ 1770 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, latt. 42? 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames. [Seventeen lines of verse]

People / Organizations

• Nathaniel Ames (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers [i.e, R. Draper, T. & J. Fleet, and Edes & Gill], at 2s. 8d. per dozen, and six coppers single, [1769]

Added name

Draper, Richard, 1727-1774, printer. Fleet, Thomas, 1732-1797, bookseller. Fleet, John, 1734-1806, bookseller. Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803, bookseller. Gill, John, 1732-1785, bookseller.

Publication year

1769

ESTC No.

W22481

Grub Street ID

332311

Description

[24]p. ; 8⁰

Note

This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), Dec. 4, 1769, and in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (R. Draper), Dec. 14, as "to be sold by R. Draper, T. & J. Fleet, and Edes & Gill." Evans takes the printer to be William McAlpine, evidently through extrapolation from the McAlpine editions of other years. Drake, entry 3184, mistakenly lists a McAlpine issue as being held by the American Antiquarian Society.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-C?