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An almanack, for the year of our Lord and Savior, 1778 : Being the second after leap year, and second of American independence. Calculated for the meridian of Boston, Lat. 4. 25.

An almanack, for the year of our Lord and Savior, 1778 : Being the second after leap year, and second of American independence. Calculated for the meridian of Boston, Lat. 4. 25.
Type: Text
Year: 1778, 1778
Member of: Almanacs
Contributors: George, Daniel, 1757 or 1758-1804, Mycall, John, 1750-1833, printer
Publisher: John Mycall
Description: A cursory description of the solar system -- An account of some extraordinary rarities of nature -- Roads to the principal Towns on the Continent, &c. from Boston : with the names of those who keep houses of entertainment. Includes verse. Cover title. Signatures: [A-B]⁴ C⁴. Title vignette: the solar system. Printer's advertisement to purchase rags or exchange for paper, page [24]. Title… more
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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1778 : being the second year of American independence and the second after leap-year : calculated for the meredian of Boston, lat. 42ʹ 25° N. : containing, besides what is necessary in an alman

Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1778 : being the second year of American independence and the second after leap-year : calculated for the meredian of Boston, lat. 42ʹ 25° N. : containing, besides what is necessary in an alman
Type: Text
Year: 1778, 1778
Member of: Almanacs
Contributors: Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796, printer., West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Publisher: Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796, printer.
Description: Includes verse. Cover title. Isaac Bickerstaff is the pseudonym of Benjamin West. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. Woodcut drawings of George Washington and Horatio Gates on title page titled: The glorious Washington and Gates. Print shows side view of faces. Washington's illustration is first known American print of Washington and this is its 2nd printed appearance (1st use is on a 1776 Salem… more
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An astronomical diary, or, Almanack, for the year of Christian Æra, 1778 :

An astronomical diary, or, Almanack, for the year of Christian Æra, 1778 :
Type: Text
Year: 1778, 1778
Member of: Almanacs
Publisher: J. Gill, in Court-Street and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill
Description: The title vignette (Reilly 1785), a woodcut of the Man of Signs or Anatomical Man, is identical line for line with that on page [2] of Thomas Robie's An almanack of the coelestial motions, aspects, and eclipses for 1716 (Boston: T. Fleet and T. Crump). The Robie cut itself appears to have been copied from the one which appeared in John Tully's An almanack for 1693 (Boston: Benjamin… more
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