MDCCXXIX. THE NEW-ENGLAND DIARY, OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1729...FITTED TO THE HORIZON OF BOSTON THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLANDWHOSE LONG. FROM LONDON IS 289 GR. AND LAT. NORTH, 42 GR. 25 MIN. NEAREST, BUT MAY WITHOUT SENSIBLE ERROR (T
Bowen, Nathan:
Boston: Printed by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1729 [i.e. 1728]. [16]pp. including booksellers' advertisements on p.[16]. 12mo. Later stitching with reinforcement to first and last leaves. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage. Moderately agetoned. Edges worn and slightly chipped. Bottom and foredge of third leaf torn, with loss of text. A good copy. An early 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published in Boston between 1721 and 1737. In addition to the calendar year, this NEW-ENGLAND DIARY, OR, ALMANACK includes predictions for the year's eclipses. The final page includes a lengthy advertisement for Rev. Thomas Prince's NEW-ENGLAND CHRONOLOGY and a separate advertisement by three Boston booksellers looking for linen rags to be used in making paper at the first paper mill in New England. "The first mill to be established north of New Jersey grew out of the action of the Massachusetts Assembly of 1728 by which encouragement was given to the beginning of this industry in New England. Daniel Henchman, whose initiative was probably the cause of the Assembly's action, joined with Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil, Thomas Hancock, and Henry Deering and built a paper manufactory at Milton on the Neponset sometime in the year 1729" - Wroth. EVANS 2995. DRAKE 3028. NAIP w022683. WROTH COLONIAL PRINTER, p.137.
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