The Resource Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N., (electronic resource)
Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N., (electronic resource)
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The item Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N., (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Union Presbyterian Seminary Libraries.
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- Extent
- [24] p.
- Note
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- Part of the library digital collection of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. Supplements
- 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 are nearly identical with those in Daniel George's An almanack for ... 1784 ... (Boston Adams and Nourse and E. Russell), and all the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are duplicated, except that George's signed almanac adds the aspects and a few others
- No resemblance is to be found between the present almanac and West's North-American calendar for 1784 (Providence). The astronomical notes on the calendar pages include calculations for the rising and setting of the "Yard L" (the belt of Orion) and of the "Eagle's Heart" (Altair). The former, in Massachusetts almanacs, are found at this time only in the work of George and Nathaniel Low, and the latter only in George, whose almanac is advertised in the imprint
- "Now selling at Battelle's book-store, south side State-House, Bickerstaff, George, Thomas, Low and Weatherwise's genuine almanacks for 1784, cheap: also may be had a very great variety of books, and stationary."--p. [4]
- Direction line, p. [8]: Bickerstaff, 1784. B 2d EDIT, corrected
- Signatures: [A]4 B-C4
- Label
- Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N.
- Title
- Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784:
- Title remainder
- being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N.
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- AOX
- Citation location within source
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- B5685
- 3332
- Citation source
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- Bristol
- Drake, M. Almanacs
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1757 or 8-1804
- 1730-1813
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- George, Daniel
- West, Benjamin
- Label
- Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N., (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Part of the library digital collection of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. Supplements
- 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 are nearly identical with those in Daniel George's An almanack for ... 1784 ... (Boston Adams and Nourse and E. Russell), and all the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are duplicated, except that George's signed almanac adds the aspects and a few others
- No resemblance is to be found between the present almanac and West's North-American calendar for 1784 (Providence). The astronomical notes on the calendar pages include calculations for the rising and setting of the "Yard L" (the belt of Orion) and of the "Eagle's Heart" (Altair). The former, in Massachusetts almanacs, are found at this time only in the work of George and Nathaniel Low, and the latter only in George, whose almanac is advertised in the imprint
- "Now selling at Battelle's book-store, south side State-House, Bickerstaff, George, Thomas, Low and Weatherwise's genuine almanacks for 1784, cheap: also may be had a very great variety of books, and stationary."--p. [4]
- Direction line, p. [8]: Bickerstaff, 1784. B 2d EDIT, corrected
- Signatures: [A]4 B-C4
- Control code
- 000380254
- Dimensions
- 17 cm (12mo)
- Extent
- [24] p.
- Note
-
- Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints.
- Library Company copy has MS. notes.
- NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 000380254
- (OCoLC)229907970
- Label
- Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1784: : being leap-year; and eighth of American independency. Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 250 N., (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Part of the library digital collection of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. Supplements
- 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 are nearly identical with those in Daniel George's An almanack for ... 1784 ... (Boston Adams and Nourse and E. Russell), and all the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are duplicated, except that George's signed almanac adds the aspects and a few others
- No resemblance is to be found between the present almanac and West's North-American calendar for 1784 (Providence). The astronomical notes on the calendar pages include calculations for the rising and setting of the "Yard L" (the belt of Orion) and of the "Eagle's Heart" (Altair). The former, in Massachusetts almanacs, are found at this time only in the work of George and Nathaniel Low, and the latter only in George, whose almanac is advertised in the imprint
- "Now selling at Battelle's book-store, south side State-House, Bickerstaff, George, Thomas, Low and Weatherwise's genuine almanacks for 1784, cheap: also may be had a very great variety of books, and stationary."--p. [4]
- Direction line, p. [8]: Bickerstaff, 1784. B 2d EDIT, corrected
- Signatures: [A]4 B-C4
- Control code
- 000380254
- Dimensions
- 17 cm (12mo)
- Extent
- [24] p.
- Note
-
- Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints.
- Library Company copy has MS. notes.
- NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 000380254
- (OCoLC)229907970
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