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Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection at Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives

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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our Lord 1769; being the first year after leap year.

Type: Text

Year: 1769, 1769, 1769, 1769

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808., West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Publisher: Mein and Fleeming, printer.

Description: Cover title.The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "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. The columns on the calendar pages, eclipse predictions, and other astronomical material duplicate those in West… 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

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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