almanac

Includes verse. Cover title. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. "Roads to the principal towns on the continent, &c. from Boston : with the names of those who keep houses of entertainment.", pages [21-24]. Bookseller's advertisement, page [24]. Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Nov. 7, 1782.

Includes verse. Cover title. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. "Approved remedies", pages [18]-[19]. "Roads to the principal towns on the continent, &c. from Boston", pages [20]-[23]. Bookseller's advertisement on pages [23]-[24]. Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Nov. 8, 1781.

The first almanac published by Bennett Wheeler. A revival of the fictitious Anderson last employed in Rhode Island by Solomon Southwick in this almanac for 1776 or 1777. Cf. Alden. Signatures: [A]⁴ B1² B⁴ [C]². The calculations are stated to be those of Benjamin West in Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): p. 26, 38. This seems confirmed by a comparison of the calendar pages and eclipse notes with those in West's New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1780 (Providence: John Carter). "Roads for Anderson's almanack", pages [20-24]. Printer's advertisement for the purchase of rags, page [24]. Advertised in the American journal, Providence, Oct. 28, 1779.

The grand pilgrimage in Mecca described -- 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. Identical in content with the Mycall (Newburyport, 1778) edition, except that the list of roads at end has been lengthened. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. Title within border of double rules; text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 26, 1778.

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 and text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Dec. 11, 1777.

Includes verse."Geo C. Rand & Avery, printers"--Cover.
Includes several articles on slavery: The slave-trade, page 28 ; Rev. Dr. Rice (against), page 53 ; Abolition of British Slavery, page 55 ; Slavery in Missouri (slave trade up and down the Missouri River), page 61.

The title vignette (Reilly 1785), a woodcut of the Man of Signs or Anatomical Man, is identical line for line with that on p. [2] of Thomas Robie's An almanack of the celestial 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 Harris) and which continued in use in many of the almanacs printed by Bartholomew Green as late as 1723. The Robie version (in which the spelling of "Pisces" is corrected) appears also in the North-American calendar and gentlemen and ladies diary, being an almanack for 1773, by Samuel Stearns (Boston: Edes & Gill and T. & J. Fleet); and with other engravings in that almanac was attributed to Paul Revere in: Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings (Worcester, Mass., 1954), p. 136. Its final appearance seems to have been in Low's almanac for 1779 (J. Gill and T. & J. Fleet), and it thus had evidently remained in the Fleets' possession and use for at least 63 years.
Includes "A prophecy of Lord Kames concerning the North American Colonies": page [17]. Title within border of double rules; text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Continental journal, Boston, Oct. 29, 1778.

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 printing of the Declaration of Independence).
"The anatomy of man's body as governed by the 12 constellations", page [2].
"Roads to the principal Towns on the Continent, &c. from Boston : with the names of those who keep houses of entertainment": pages [22-24].
Printer's advertisement, page [24].
Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Dec. 11, 1777.
Title and text printed within ruled border.

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's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1769 (Boston : Mein and Fleeming). "Distances of the principal towns on the Continent from Boston, with the intermediate miles": pages [21]-[24]. "The liberty song. In freedom we're born, etc." With music: page[34]. "Table of the kings and queens..." pages [36]-[39] "A chronological table of the most remarkable events in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, from the year 1602..." pages [38]-[41]. Advertisements for books, stationery and medicine, pages [43]-[44]. Title vignette is a framed portrait of "John Wilkes, Esq" surrounded by figures and books. Parenthesis substituted for square bracket in imprint transcription. Woodcut illustrations. Title and text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Boston chronicle, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1768.

Cover title. "The astronomical calculations have been prepared exclusively for the Whig Almanac by Samuel H. Wright, Dundee, Yates Co., New York."--Page 1. Includes "Why I am a Whig: reply to an inquiring friend", pages 19-26, by Horace Greeley.
"Population of the of the United States, from the census of 1850 and of 1840 " includes sex, color, free colored and slave population in each state: pages 33-40."Foreign policy of the United States. The Webster and Hulsemann correspondence", pages 41-46. In engraved and printed blue wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc.
Back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements.Includes: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.Correspondence between Mr. Johann George Hülsemann, and Mr. Webster, and Mr Horace Greeley, 1811-1872. Why I am a Whig.