Nathan ben Salomon.
An astronomical diary or almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1786. ... [microform] : Calculated for the meridian of New-Haven ... / By Nathan Ben Salomon, X.Y.Z. educated at Jerusalem, and superintendant of the college of astronomy at Japan. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
New Haven: : Printed by Meigs, Bowen and Dana, in Chapel-Street., [1785]
Tentatively attributed to Eben W. Judd in: Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 24 (1914): 147-148. The eclipse notes and calendar pages, however, bear no similarity to those of the almanac issued under Judd's name for the same year, An astronomical diary or almanac, for 1786 (Litchfield: Collier and Copp).
Advertised in the New-Haven gazette, Nov. 10, 1785.
"The map which is found in some copies is an overrun from Morse's Geography, Evans 18615."--Shipton & Mooney. The map was engraved by Amos Doolittle.
Evans 19108
Bristol B6020
Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 186
Drake, M. Almanacs, 383
Drake, M. Almanacs, 384
Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19108).
Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1786. rbgenr
Maps -- United States. rbgenr
Judd, Eben W. (Eben Warner), 1761-1837
Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832 engraver.
United States Connecticut New Haven.
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