An astronomical diary, or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1769 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42? 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames. [Fourteen lines of verse]

People / Organizations

• Nathaniel Ames (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers [i.e., Richard Draper, Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet], at 2s. & 8d. per dozen, & six coppers single, [1768]

Publication year

1768-1768

ESTC No.

W22968

Grub Street ID

332843

Description

[24]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Advertised in the Boston weekly news-letter (R. Draper), Nov. 3, 1768, the Boston gazette (Edes & Gill), Oct. 31, and the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), Nov. 3, as "now in the press, and shortly will be published, and sold by the printers and booksellers in town, and traders in the country." Advertised for sale in the Evening post and the Boston gazette, Nov. 14, and in the Massachusetts gazette (Draper's edition), Nov. 17. One of the pirated editions of Ames issued by this group of printers, and made up to resemble William McAlpine's legitimate edition, but typographically distinguishable from it. Evans takes the printer to be McAlpine, evidently through extrapolation from the McAlpine editions of this and other years.

Iron cutter's and paper maker's advertisements, p. [24].

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-C?