[24]pp. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched. Edges worn with tears into text on the final two leaves. Unobtrusive stab hole through lower inside corner of all pages, widens towards the end and touches some text. Contemporary ownership signature on two leaves. Overall a quite clean copy. Very good. This Bickerstaff almanac is attributed to Benjamin West of Providence by Evans, but is more likely the work of Connecticut textbook author and mathematician Nathan Daboll, whose 1785 Freebetter almanac features identical calculations to this one. The usual astronomical notes and calendars are followed by a series of "Merry Jests," including a two- page story about a cobbler's wife and chimney sweep's devilish scheme to improve her husband's behavior. The last page also contains a brief advertisement for stationery and other titles to be sold by John Trumbull of Norwich. The contemporary manuscript signature of one Enoch Peirce, originally from Massachusetts but living in Connecticut by the 1750s, is present in the margins of the second and third pages. Occasional other marginal notes are evident, but are mostly trimmed. DRAKE 371. EVANS 18879. ESTC W25615. Seller Inventory # WRCAM57001

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Title: BICKERSTAFF'S IMPROVED ALMANACK, FOR THE ...

Publisher: Printed and Sold by John Trumbull, Norwich

Publication Date: 1784

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