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245 13 a| An astronomical diary: or almanack, for the year of our Lord 1797 ... :b| Calculated for the meridian and latitude of Boston but will serve without sensible variation for the adjacent states. /c| By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. ; [Four lines of verse].;

260 a| Printed at Boston :b| And sold by J. Boyle, C. Bingham, B. Larkin Wm. Pelham, E. Larkin, J. Nancrede, J. West, J. Bumstead, and other booksellers in town and country,c| [1796];

300 a| 24 unnumbered pages ;c| 18 cm (12mo);

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500 a| By Osgood Carleton. The calculations for the sun, moon, and tides on the calendar pages are identical with those in Carleton's Almanack for 1797 (Boston: S. Hall), with the exception of the tide times for May through December. The calculations in the eclipse predictions are also identical. Most of the astronomical notes on the calendar pages correspond to those in Carleton's almanac, except that the latter has more of them and with frequent slight differences in the calculations here. The weather predictions on the same pages are generally parallel. Evans attributed the almanac, as he did most of those issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym, to Benjamin West.;

500 a| Identical in content and typography (except for the title page and the literary extracts on p. [18-19]) with Weatherwise's almanack for 1797 (Boston: same imprint).;

510 4 a| Evansc| 31613;

510 4 a| Drake, M. Almanacs,c| 3559;

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An astronomical diary: or almanack, for the year of our Lord 1797 ... : Calculated for the meridian and latitude of Boston but will serve without sensible variation for the adjacent states. / By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. ; [Four lines of verse].

Author/creator	Bickerstaff, Isaac
Other author	Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816.
Other author	West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Printed at Boston : And sold by J. Boyle, C. Bingham, B. Larkin Wm. Pelham, E. Larkin, J. Nancrede, J. West, J. Bumstead, and other booksellers in town and country, [1796]
Description	24 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31613. ^A478749
General note	By Osgood Carleton. The calculations for the sun, moon, and tides on the calendar pages are identical with those in Carleton's Almanack for 1797 (Boston: S. Hall), with the exception of the tide times for May through December. The calculations in the eclipse predictions are also identical. Most of the astronomical notes on the calendar pages correspond to those in Carleton's almanac, except that the latter has more of them and with frequent slight differences in the calculations here. The weather predictions on the same pages are generally parallel. Evans attributed the almanac, as he did most of those issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym, to Benjamin West.
General note	Identical in content and typography (except for the title page and the literary extracts on p. [18-19]) with Weatherwise's almanack for 1797 (Boston: same imprint).
References	Evans 31613
References	Drake, M. Almanacs, 3559
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. 31613).
Genre/form	Almanacs Massachusetts 1797.

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