The Federal almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1792. [electronic resource] : Being bissextile, or leap-year, and the sixteenth of American independence
- Imprint
- Boston: : Printed for and sold by the booksellers., [1791]
- Physical description
- [24] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
- Series
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23981.
Description
Creators/Contributors
Subjects
- Subjects
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Portraits.
- Genre
- Almanacs > Massachusetts > 1792.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1791
- Note
- Apparently by Osgood Carleton. The calculations in the eclipse predictions, and those for the sun, moon, and tides in the calendar pages, are identical with those in his An astronomical diary or An almanack for 1792 (Boston: S. Hall). The wording of the eclipse predictions is virtually identical. There are different sets of notes on the calendar pages, but with frequent correspondences.
- Identical in content and typography, except for the title page, with Bickerstaff's genuine almanack for 1792 (Boston: Printed for and sold by the booksellers). Though Evans fails to mention the fact, it is probably for this reason that he attributes the calculations to Benjamin West, as he does those of the Bickerstaff issue and of nearly all almanacs issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym.
- Title vignette (portrait of George Washington).
- Referenced in
- Evans 23981
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3477
- Note
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Reproduction
- 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. 23981).
- Location
- United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
