Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stearns, Samuel
• Revere, Paul

Titel

Second edition of Edes & Gill's North-American almanack for the year of our Lord 1769 : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. latt. 42¤ 25' north [Elektronische Ressource]

Ort / Verlag

Boston : Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen-Street. (Price four shillings per dozen, and six pence single.)

Erscheinungsjahr

[1768]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Attributed to Samuel Stearns by Evans (entry 11078). The preface, signed "Incog.", reads: "My first production of the astronomical kind is here presented to you. ... The cause of my not prefixing my real name to this my first essay, is (what I think) a prudent diffidence." The preface to the next issue, for 1770, is evidently by the ame author, and concludes: "I have not yet had time to think upon the name by which I should best like to be known in the world, and therefore must remain the public's humble servant, Incog.". - Bristol, B2945. - Drake, M. Almanacs, 3177. - Frontispiece signed: P. Revere sculp. - However, the first almanac under Stearns' own name also appeared for 1770, entitled The North American's almanack (Boston: The author). Its calculations bear no resemblance to those in the 1770 Edes & Gill's North American almanack, which Evans again attributes to Stearns. Evans' attribution, therefore, is probably based upon the similarity in titles, since no other ground for it is apparent. - Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. - Shipton & Mooney, 41885. - The second edition was advertised in the Boston gazette, Dec. 26, 1768
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