AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY: OR, AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1773
1772 · Boston, printed: Hartford
by Ames, Nathaniel
Boston, printed: Hartford: Re-printed and Sold by E. Watson, 1772. [16]pp. Stitched. Text tanned and stained. Second and seventh leaves very tanned. Margins chipped, not affecting text. Spine chipped. Contemporary manuscript notes throughout. A good copy. An almanac by Nathaniel Ames, son of Dr. Nathaniel Ames who started a popular and highly regarded almanac in 1726. A variation of the impressions from Boston. Ames continued writing the almanac after his father died in 1764 until the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Ames was a successful doctor, ardent Anti-Federalist and local politician. Includes a lengthy essay on growing wine in New England with the prediction that the wine of New England will be comparable to the wine from the great wine growing regions of Europe. This edition appears does not contain Ames' poetry, an essay, and a table of roads, all of which are found in the Boston editions. DRAKE 207. EVANS 12305. ESTC W598. (Inventory #: WRCAM41204A)