An astronomical diary: or, almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1764. ... Calculated for the meridian of Bsoton, New-England, lat. 42 deg. 25 min. north. ... By Nathaniel Ames. [Eleven lines of verse]

People / Organizations

• Nathaniel Ames (Author)

Imprint

Boston [i.e., New London, Conn.]: Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e., Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers. Price: 3s. 4d. per dozen, and 7 coppers single, [1763]

Publication year

1763-1763

ESTC No.

W587

Grub Street ID

354863

Description

[24]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Listed by Drake, 3138, as a variant Draper issue, having the price line at foot of title page and lacking the word "ephemeris" from the ninth line of the title. In fact a pirated edition printed at New London by Timothy Green (1737-1796), similar to the spurious Ames almanacs for 1762 and 1763 printed by his uncle Timothy Green (1703-1763) and identified in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 24 (1914): 117-118. Green also published an edition of Ames for 1764 over his own imprint. The present edition is typographiclly distinct from the true Draper edition, but is for the most part typographically identical with the edition bearing the Green imprint.

Paper maker's advertisement, p. [24].

Uncontrolled note

Not in Evans. - Signatures: [A]? B-C?. - THE 500 NOTE HAS BEEN ABRIDGED FROM THAT FOUND IN THE CARD CAT