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Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1786 ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states. ..
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- Printed at Worcester [Mass.] : by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six-pence single.), [1785]
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- [44]p. ; 12⁰
- The AAS manuscript collection also contains a letter to Thomas from Benjamin West, dated July 18, 1785, in which West regrets that other affairs have prevented his calculating Thomas's almanac for the coming year.
- The "Dr. Low" referred to by Stearns is Nathaniel Low, the almanac calculator, whose own prediction of five eclipses for the approaching year had evidently come to Thomas's attention.
- Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Oct. 13, 1785.
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
- Bookseller's advertisement, p. [44].
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Evans, 19027
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3365
- English Short Title Catalog, W29834.