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245 00 a| Bickerstaff's genuine almanack, for the year of our Lord 1791 ... :b| Calculated for the meridian and latitude of Boston, and will serve without essential error for all the New-England states. : [Four lines of verse].;

260 a| Boston :b| Printed and sold by Joseph Bumstead, at his printing office, no. 20, Union-Street. Sold also by the booksellers,c| [1790];

300 a| 24 unnumbered pages ;c| 18 cm (12mo);

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500 a| Evans attributes the almanac to Benjamin West, as he does nearly all those published under the Bickerstaff pseudonym. However, the calculations in the calendar pages are identical with those in Osgood Carleton's An astronomical diary; or, An almanack for 1791 (Boston: S. Hall), and the eclipse notes are a condensed version of the predictions appearing there. There are frequent correspondences in the notes on the calendar pages despite the fact that Carleton's signed almanac features astronomical material in this column much more than does the present one.;

500 a| Identical in content and typography, except for the title page, with Weatherwise's town and country almanack for 1791 (Boston: Printed for and sold by the booksellers).;

500 a| Advertisements for books sold by Bumstead and David West, p. [24].;

510 4 a| Evansc| 23069;

510 4 a| Drake, M. Almanacs,c| 3445;

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Bickerstaff's genuine almanack, for the year of our Lord 1791 ... : Calculated for the meridian and latitude of Boston, and will serve without essential error for all the New-England states. : [Four lines of verse].

Other author	West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Other author	Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Boston : Printed and sold by Joseph Bumstead, at his printing office, no. 20, Union-Street. Sold also by the booksellers, [1790]
Description	24 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23069. ^A478749
General note	Evans attributes the almanac to Benjamin West, as he does nearly all those published under the Bickerstaff pseudonym. However, the calculations in the calendar pages are identical with those in Osgood Carleton's An astronomical diary; or, An almanack for 1791 (Boston: S. Hall), and the eclipse notes are a condensed version of the predictions appearing there. There are frequent correspondences in the notes on the calendar pages despite the fact that Carleton's signed almanac features astronomical material in this column much more than does the present one.
General note	Identical in content and typography, except for the title page, with Weatherwise's town and country almanack for 1791 (Boston: Printed for and sold by the booksellers).
General note	Advertisements for books sold by Bumstead and David West, p. [24].
References	Evans 23069
References	Drake, M. Almanacs, 3445
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23069).
Genre/form	Almanacs Massachusetts 1791.
Genre/form	Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.

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