An astronomical diary [electronic resource] : or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42⁰ 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames.

An astronomical diary [electronic resource] : or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1766 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42⁰ 25' north. ... By Nathaniel Ames.

(The second edition.) [Ten lines of verse].

Boston : Printed and sold by the printers and booksellers. Price 2s 8d per dozen. Six coppers single, [1765]

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

English

[24]p. : ill. ; 8⁰.

Advertised in the Boston evening post (T. & J. Fleet), Oct. 7, 1765: "The second edition of Ames's almanack for 1766, will be published this week.--The courts that are wrong in the Scotch [i.e., McAlpine and Fleeming's] edition will be corrected. Sold by the printers and booksellers in Boston." Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter (R. & S. Draper), Oct. 10: "Dr. Nathaniel Ames's almanack .. Agreeable to the first edition, excepting several of the courts which were inserted wrong in the first, are rectified in this second edition: --also other correction by Dr. Ames's own desire." - Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing edition statement.
The cut on p. [17] is a copy of that executed by Paul Revere for the McAlpine and Fleeming edition.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Evans, 9897
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3149
English Short Title Catalog, W29742.

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