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100 1  Stearns, Samuel, |d1741-1809. |=^A479651
245 14 The North-American's calendar and gentlemen and ladies diary, being an almanack for the year of the Christian aera 1773 : |bCalculated for the meridian of Boston, N. England, lat. 42 d. 25 m. north. / |cBy Samuel Stearns. A student in the mathematicks and physick.
260    Boston : |bPrinted and sold by Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet. Price 2s. 8d, per dozen, and six coppers single, |c[1772]
300    24 unnumbered pages : |billustrations ; |c18 cm (12mo)
336    text |2rdacontent
337    microform |2rdamedia
338    microfiche |2rdacarrier
490 1  Early American imprints. First series ; |vno. 12566
500    Advertised in the Boston gazette Sept. 21, 1772.
500    Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
500    The three cuts, on p. [1-3], are attributed to Paul Revere in C.S. Brigham's Paul Revere's engravings, 1954, p. 136. However, the cut of the Anatomy is found earlier in Thomas Robie's An almanac of the coelestial motions, aspects and eclipses for 1716 (Boston : T. Fleet and T. Crump). The appearances in the Stearns and Robie almanacs are identical line for line. The Robie cut is in turn a copy of that which appeared in John Tully's almanacs for 1693-1697 (Boston : Benjamin Harris, Bartholomew Green and John Allen) and which continued in use in the almanacs printed by Green as late as 1723, appearing finally in Nathaniel Whittemore's 1724 almanac printed by Allen. the Robie version (in which the spelling "Pisses" is corrected to Pisces) was last used in Nathaniel Low's An astronomical diary or almanac for 1779 (Boston : J. Gill and T. & J. Fleet). The cut thus appears to have been in the Fleets' possession and use for at least 63 years. (Brigham, incidentally, omits the Fleets when citing the imprint of Stearns' almanac, giving only Edes & Gill.)
510 4  Evans |c12566
510 4  Drake, M. Almanacs, |c3226
533     |3Joyner-Microfiche. |b[New York : |cReadex Microprint, |d1985] |e11 x 15 cm. |f(Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12566).
655  7 Almanacs |zMassachusetts |y1773. |2rbgenr
700 1  Revere, Paul, |d1735-1818, |eengraver. |=^A44254
752    United States |bMassachusetts |dBoston.
830  0 Early American imprints. |nFirst series ; |vno. 12566. |=^A478749
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