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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 ... Fitted for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25⁰ N
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- Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump, [1782]
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- 1 online resource ([24]p. ) ill.
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- ocn642790473
- Attributed to Benjamin West in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and in the Dictionary of American biography. However, the eclipse notes, calculations, and notes on the calendar pages do not resemble those in West's North-American calendar for 1783 (Providence), whereas they contain frequent correspondences or similarities with Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for the same year, published at New London under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, such as to suggest a common authorship.
- Two states noted. One has a four-line advertisement for booksellers and shopkeepers in Boston and Salem on p. [24]; the other dfoes not.
- Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 28, 1782.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Evans, 17792
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3318
- English Short Title Catalog, W35404.