Mein and Fleeming's register for New-England and Nova Scotia : With all the British lists; and an almanack for 1768, being bissextile or leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Boston. : Illustrated with a type of the eclipse of the sun of January 19th

Mein and Fleeming's register for New-England and Nova Scotia : With all the British lists; and an almanack for 1768, being bissextile or leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Boston. : Illustrated with a type of the eclipse of the sun of January 19th.

Other author/creator	West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Boston : Printed by Mein and Fleeming, and to be sold by John Mein at the London Book-Store, north-side of King-Street, [1767]
Description	92 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 13 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Boston chronicle. Massachusetts--Registers. Great Britain--Colonies --America --Registers.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10687. ^A478749
General note	The calculations and wording of the eclipse predictions (p. 3 and 12), the accompanying illustration, and the calculations on the calendar pages, are identical with those in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1768 (Boston: Mein & Fleeming) except that for some months those in the two "High water" columns are transposed. Bickerstaff's was apparently calculated by Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.F. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and the Dictionary of American biography.
General note	Advertised in the Boston chronicle, Dec. 21, 1767.
General note	Error in paging: p. 24 misnumbered 25.
General note	Publisher's advertisements, including proposals for the Boston chronicle, [4] p. at end.
References	Evans 10687
References	Drake, M. Almanacs, 3164
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. 10687).
Genre/form	Almanacs Massachusetts 1768.
Genre/form	Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.
Genre/form	Advertisements Bookbinding.
Genre/form	Advertisements Newspapers.

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