An astronomical diary; or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42? 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames. [Ten lines of verse]

People / Organizations

• Nathaniel Ames (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by W. M'Alpine and J. Fleeming in Marlborough-Street. Price, 2 s. 8 d. per dozen. Six coppers single, [1765]

Publication year

1765-1765

ESTC No.

W38327

Grub Street ID

349149

Description

[24]p. : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

Ames's preface states: "I purpose to make my appearance before you annually, notwithstanding what some obscure persons would insinuate to the contrary .. for they have not only made use of my name, to impose upon the public, by prefixing it to their conterfeit almanacks, but have even advertised that I was not about to publish an almanack for this year, which the public knows to be false." Ames is here alluding to a statement in the preface to Ames's almanack revived and improved .. for .. 1766 .. By a late student at Harvard-College (Boston, R. & S. Draper and others and in the various newspaper advertisements for this publication.

Page [17] contains an unsigned cut of an eclipse of the sun executed by Paul Revere, in whose Day book it is charged to McAlpine and Fleeming under date of Sept. 28, 1765. Cf. Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, 1954, p. [133]-134.

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Signatures: [A]? B-C?