An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1726 : ... Calculated to the meridian of Boston in New England, where the north pole is elevated 42 degrees, and 25 minutes north, and 71 degrees westward from London. / By Nathaniel Whittemore.
| Author/creator | Whittemore, Nathaniel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : Printed [by Thomas Fleet?] for Nicholas Boone, and sold by the booksellers of Boston, 1726 [i.e., 1725?] |
| Description | 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2718. ^A478749 |
| General note | Whittemore's almanac for 1727 was entitled A new almanack for ... 1727. |
| General note | Evans gives Thomas Fleet as the printer. The cut of the Anatomy on p. [2] appeared in several Whittemore almanacs issued without imprints, of which 1716 and 1718 are also attributed by Evans to Fleet. It appeared later in Nathan Bowen's almanac for 1735, Whittemore's for 1738, and Joseph Stafford's for 1740, all published with Fleet's imprint. No other printer is known to have used it. |
| General note | The Man of Signs (Reilly 1783) is the only illustration. |
| General note | Page [15] includes an advertisement of the author's surveying services. |
| References | Evans 2718 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3014 |
| 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. 2718). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1726. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |