From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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[24]pp. including in-text illustration. Small octavo. Gathered signatures, recently re-stitched. First and last pages slightly soiled. Contemporary ownership inscription to titlepage. Many small perforations near gutter from repeated re-stitchings over the years, none touching the text. Moderately tanned, but all in all a good, clean copy. Very good. A well-kept Hartford Bickerstaff almanac from the last year of the Confederation period. Although Evans attributes this almanac to Benjamin West of Providence, the Hartford Bickerstaffs from 1785 and on are generally attributed to Rev. Nehemiah Strong, Yale's first professor of Mathematics and Natural Science. Strong, fed up with rumors attributing Bickerstaff almanacs to himself and dismissive of their quality, seems to have decided to simply take the name for his own in Hartford. Along with the usual calendars and notices, including a small woodcut of "Mercury wholly on the Face of the Sun", are several bits of prose including "The Beer-Barrel", "On Laziness", and "On ugliness." The titlepage bears the contemporary signature of one Enoch Peirce, a native of Massachusetts who followed his parents and most of his family to Mansfield, Connecticut in the 1730s. DRAKE 427. EVANS 21590. ESTC W25547. Seller Inventory # WRCAM57011
Bibliographic Details
Title: AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, KALENDER, OR ALMANACK...
Publisher: Printed by Nathaniel Patten, Hartford
Publication Date: 1788
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