Mills and Hicks's British and American register, with an almanack for the year 1774 [electronic resource] : Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Calculated for the use of all the New-England provinces.
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Mills and Hicks's British and American register, with an almanack for the year 1774 [electronic resource] : Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Calculated for the use of all the New-England provinces.
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Boston : Printed by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office in School-Street, next door to Cromwell's-Head, [1774]
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United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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English
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108p. ; 12⁰.
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The register includes Great-Britain, the New England colonies, and Nova Scotia.
Advertised by Mills and Hicks in the Massachusetts gazette and the Boston post-boy and advertiser, Jan. 10, 1774.
In the almanac (p. 12-24) the eclipse predictions and the calendar page calculations duplicate those in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for .. 1774, also published by Mills and Hicks, which is attributed to Benjamin West. See Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography.
Errors in paging: p. 31, 74 misnumbered 13, 47.
Booksellers' advertisement, p. 108.
Vertical chain lines.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Advertised by Mills and Hicks in the Massachusetts gazette and the Boston post-boy and advertiser, Jan. 10, 1774.
In the almanac (p. 12-24) the eclipse predictions and the calendar page calculations duplicate those in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for .. 1774, also published by Mills and Hicks, which is attributed to Benjamin West. See Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography.
Errors in paging: p. 31, 74 misnumbered 13, 47.
Booksellers' advertisement, p. 108.
Vertical chain lines.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Indexed In
Evans, 12869
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3235
English Short Title Catalog, W29799.
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3235
English Short Title Catalog, W29799.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
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