An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1782.
Newburyport: John Mycall, [1781].
Price: $300.00
About the item
24pp. Stitched. Trimmed close with some loss. Evans 17172; Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, 3306; ESTC W37171.
Item #319592
Scarce almanac from the period just following the American Revolution. George, a former student of astronomy at Haverhill issued New England almanacs in various Massachusetts towns between 1776 and 1787. Includes the following maxim: "Books are useful monitors, or dangerous guides: Read to improve your mind, not to kill time." The final leaf includes an ad for books for sale by John Mycall.
