Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786. [electronic resource] : ... Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 25⁰ [sic] n.

Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786. [electronic resource] : ... Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 25⁰ [sic] n.

Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next door to Liberty-Pole, by wholesale or retail, cheap. Price 7 coppers single, [1785]

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

English

[24]p. : ill. ; 8⁰.

Evans, who saw no copy, gives title: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786.
A note by the author on p. [4], signed with the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., is dated at Providence, indicating that the almanac is the work of Benjamin West. It begins with a warning against purchasing "a counterfeit Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for 1786, without plates." - The present almanac is a reissue by Russell, with augmented title, of his Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1786. The two issues are otherwise identical except that at the head of p. [3] is added "(See plate p. 5)" and at the foot of p. [24] is appended an advertisement.
Title vignette.
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Evans, 19372
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3360
English Short Title Catalog, W15787.

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