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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/creatorHall, Samuel, 1740-1807.
Other author/creatorWard, Nathaniel, 1746-1768.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoSalem [Mass.]. : Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, in the Main Street. Price, 2s. 8d. per dozen, and 4d. single, [1768]
Description24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10920. ^A478749
General noteAttributed 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 noteAdvertised 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 noteThe next issue of the almanac, for 1770, was entitled Philo's Essex almanack.
General noteThe Anatomy is the only illustration.
References Evans 10920
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 3178
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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/formAlmanacs Massachusetts 1769.

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