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  1. 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. ... : To which is added, the Charter of the province of Massachusetts-Bay
    Contributor: Revere, Paul (StecherIn)
    Published: 1768
    Publisher:  Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen-Street. (Price four shillings per dozen, and six pence single.), Boston

    Access:
    Verlag (lizenzpflichtig)

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Revere, Paul (StecherIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Almanacs, American; almanacs; Almanacs; Almanacs; Almanacs - Massachusetts - 1769; Almanachs; Almanacs, American
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (16 unnumbered pages, 21 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates), illustrations
    Notes:

    Attributed to Samuel Stearns by Evans. 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 same 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."

    However, the first almanac under Stearns' own name also appeared in 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

    Nathaniel Ames in his diary for Feb. 25, 1768, notes: "Sam Sterns of Bolton wants to know how to make almanacks" (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 45 (1935): 320). Instruction from Ames during 1768 would have made it possible for Stearns to issue an initial production for 1769

    Advertised in the Boston gazette, Nov. 7, 1768

    Parentheses substituted for brackets in imprint transcription

    Frontispiece signed: P. Revere sculp

    Evans, 11078

    Drake, M. Almanacs, 3176
  2. 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. ... : To which is added, the Charter of the province of Massachusetts-Bay
    Contributor: Revere, Paul (StecherIn)
    Published: 1768
    Publisher:  Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen-Street. (Price four shillings per dozen, and six pence single.), Boston

    Access:
    Verlag (lizenzpflichtig)

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Revere, Paul (StecherIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Almanacs, American; almanacs; Almanacs; Almanacs; Almanacs - Massachusetts - 1769; Almanachs; Almanacs, American
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (16 unnumbered pages, 21 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates), illustrations
    Notes:

    Attributed to Samuel Stearns by Evans. 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 same 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."

    However, the first almanac under Stearns' own name also appeared in 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

    Nathaniel Ames in his diary for Feb. 25, 1768, notes: "Sam Sterns of Bolton wants to know how to make almanacks" (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 45 (1935): 320). Instruction from Ames during 1768 would have made it possible for Stearns to issue an initial production for 1769

    Advertised in the Boston gazette, Nov. 7, 1768

    Parentheses substituted for brackets in imprint transcription

    Frontispiece signed: P. Revere sculp

    Evans, 11078

    Drake, M. Almanacs, 3176