Poor Richard's genuine New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1806 : Calculated for the town of Boston, but will serve for all the New-England states.
| Other author | Newell, Andrew, 1780?-1808. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : A. Newell, printer, Devonshire Street, Boston. Price--6 cts. single, 37 1/2 cts. doz. 4 dolls. a gross, [1805] |
| Description | 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 50596. ^A575643 |
| General note | At head of title: (No. IV.) "Nature is the book of God." |
| General note | The price line is transposed from above the imprint. |
| General note | The issues for the years preceding and following are entitled Poor Richard's almanack. |
| General note | The author of this series of almanacs was probably their publisher, Andrew Newell. In the pamphlet entitled Darkness at noon, or The great solar eclipse of the 16th of June, 1806, by an inhabitant of Boston (Boston: D. Carlisle & A. Newell, 1806), the calculations of the eclipse and some passages concerning it correspond to those in the extensive discussion of the eclipse on p. [3-4] of the present almanac. The two subsequent almanacs in the series carry the phrase "Calculated by an inhabitant of Boston" on their title pages. Newell, to whom Darkness at noon has been attributed, began printing in 1801 and died in 1808; the Poor Richard almanac series is coterminous with these dates. |
| General note | The preface to Darkness at noon states that this pamphlet on the eclipse and on eclipses generally was suggested to its author by an acquaintance, who must therefore have known him as an astronomical writer. His suggestion may have been prompted by the eclipse paragraphs in the present almanac if both works are by the same hand. Newell's obituary in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Feb. 10, 1808, describes him as "A young man possessing a philosophical, active, and vigorous mind ... He furnished the best and most accurate account of the last great solar eclipse." |
| General note | Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Oct. 7, 1805. |
| General note | Last page includes a printer's advertisement. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 50596 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3678 |
| 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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 50596). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1806. |
| Genre/form | Printers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |