The Essex almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1769 : ... Calculated for the meridian of Salem, in New-England, lat. 42 d. 35 m. north.
| Other author | Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807. |
| Other author | Ward, Nathaniel, 1746-1768. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Salem [Mass.]. : Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, in the Main Street. Price, 2s. 8d. per dozen, and 4d. single, [1768] |
| Description | 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10920. ^A478749 |
| General note | Attributed to Samuel Hall by Evans. Hall is termed the editor and proprietor in Historical collections of the Essex Institute, v. 8, 1866, p. 159. |
| General note | Advertised in the Essex gazette, Salem, Nov. 22/29, 1768: "The most material calculations, such as the transits, eclipses, &c. were received from the ingenious Mr. Nathaniel Ward, deceased, late librarian of Harvard College." |
| General note | The next issue of the almanac, for 1770, was entitled Philo's Essex almanack. |
| General note | The Anatomy is the only illustration. |
| References | Evans 10920 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3178 |
| 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. 10920). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1769. |
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