12mo. 12 leaves (complete), loose gatherings. Some spotting, Good+. This Almanac discourses on the manufacture of silk and the five eclipses that will occur during the year; lists roads and distances to and from various New England cities; and tells 'An Indian Story' involving a dispute between the French and the Natchez Indians. Evans 10817. Drake 3172.

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12 leaves (complete), stitched. Tanning, light to moderate wear, one leaf trimmed closely [touching but not costing text]. Good+. With a paper-maker's advertisement at page [20], and an advertisement for a ferry and tavern at page [24]. An article is included on "the practicability of raising silk in New-England." A long article entitled, 'An Indian Story,' is printed. The Almanac provides a table of distances of New England towns from New London, "with the most noted Houses of Entertainment on the Roads." Evans 10820. Drake 255. Trumbull 208. Johnson 839.

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16mo, 8 leaves (complete), stitched. Lightly foxed and worn, Good+ or a bit better. With an early analysis of regional cultural and geographic characteristics, from Nova Scotia to Georgia: "Upon the whole, The southern Colonies live with the least Labour; but the Northern Colonies are most Healthy; and the Breed and Disposition of the New-England People, are the most stout and warlike, and deserve the Preference in Military Affairs." FIRST EDITION. Evans 7348. Drake 3103.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Some edge wear, costing several letters. Good or so. The first page contains the "first appearance of a fine title-page woodcut showing 4 figures representing the 4 seasons surrounding the signs of the zodiac in a circle with the date 1760 in the middle. Also gives, for the first time, a description of the Ohio River and list of places and distances from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi." O'Neal. Also included is a three-page poem "On the Reduction of Quebec, Sept. 18, 1759 by General Wolfe and the brave Troops under his Command, &c." This is the genuine first edition; there was also a pirated edition printed by Kneeland. Drake notes two states of this Draper printing-- one with, the other without the price line in the imprint. This one does not have the price line in the imprint. FIRST EDITION. Evans 8292. Drake 3118. O'Neal 81.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Light wear, Good+.  The first page contains the "first appearance of a fine title-page woodcut showing 4 figures representing the 4 seasons surrounding the signs of the zodiac in a circle with the date 1760 in the middle. Also gives, for the first time, a description of the Ohio River and list of places and distances from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi." O'Neal.  Drake notes two issues of this printing: this one has the price line after the imprint. Also included is a three-page poem "On the Reduction of Quebec, Sept. 18, 1759 by General Wolfe and the brave Troops under his Command, &c." FIRST EDITION. Evans 8292. O'Neal 80. Drake 3117.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Some light wear and loosening, corners turned, Good+. NAIP informs that this is "A pirated edition printed by D. and J. Kneeland," of the genuine Draper Boston printing. The woodcut, an "inferior imitation" [NAIP] of Draper's, is the "first appearance...showing 4 figures representing the 4 seasons surrounding the signs of the zodiac in a circle with the date 1760 in the middle. Also gives, for the first time, a description of the Ohio River and list of places and distances from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi." O'Neal 81. Also included is a three-page poem "On the Reduction of Quebec, Sept. 18, 1759 by General Wolfe and the brave Troops under his Command, &c." Evans 8295. Drake 3119.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Some edge wear, costing several letters. Good or so. The first page contains the "first appearance of a fine title-page woodcut showing 4 figures representing the 4 seasons surrounding the signs of the zodiac in a circle with the date 1760 in the middle. Also gives, for the first time, a description of the Ohio River and list of places and distances from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi." O'Neal. Also included is a three-page poem "On the Reduction of Quebec, Sept. 18, 1759 by General Wolfe and the brave Troops under his Command, &c." This is the genuine first edition; there was also a pirated edition printed by Kneeland. Drake notes two states of this Draper printing-- one with, the other without the price line in the imprint. This one has the price line. FIRST EDITION. Evans 8292. Drake 3117. O'Neal 81.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete). Stitched, light wear and tan. About Very Good. With a page and a half on smallpox. "The author shows a very clear understanding of contagion. The use of mercury is discussed..." Guerra 311. Ames was a physician and tavern-keeper as well as the founding father of the premiere 18th century almanac-making family. Evans 8529. Drake 3126. Guerra 1760 [b-129].

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16mo, 12 leaves stitched with some soil to title page, wormhole to blank outer margin. Good+.  Ames reminds his readers that "in general we know nothing of the Connection of Things, we cannot see the Links of that great Chain which binds with certainty all the events of the wide extended Universe. Indeed the Devil does not know so much of future Events as many expect an Almanack-Maker should foretell." With 'A Brief Chronology of Remarkable Events relating chiefly to the present War,' through 1762, in verse. A section on the 'Settlement and Increase of New-England' hopes for the cession of Canada to the British, which will "greatly promote and increase the settling and peopling of America." A table of distances between various New England towns is also provided. Evans 9053. Drake 3135.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched, age-toned uniformly. Two small holes, affecting a few letters. Good+.  Writing from Dedham [MA] on September 1, 1763, Ames praises the "surprizing Discoveries" by Benjamin Franklin in the field of electricity. He also discusses Perspiration, "a Discharge from our Bodies, tho' insensibly made, that is greater than all the sensible Evacuations put together...Health in all Persons every Moment depends upon a right Discharge of this Matter." Snuff, tobacco, and manure also receive Ames's attention. With tables of roads and distances. This issue of the Almanac has the price line after the imprint, and includes 'Ephemeris' in the title. It is the scarcest of the issues noted by Drake. Evans 9321. Drake 3139 [3].

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Small 4to. [24] pp. Three portraits. Light spotting, light wear [two small holes] and dusting, Good+. This is one of two Boston editions; the other was printed for Ezekiel Russell. Our offering "is doubtless the pirated edition anticipated by Russell in his advertisement" in Boston's newspapers December 23, 1771. [NAIP] The three portraits are of a dwarf, on the title page; John Dickinson, with caption "The Patriotic American Farmer...Who with Attic Eloquence and Roman Spirit, hath asserted the Liberties of the British Colonies in America"; and Mrs. Catharine M'Caulay [small hole obliterates the 'Ca' in her first name].  These portraits "are copies or versions of the three cuts in Russell's edition of Ames, two of which were by Paul Revere. Evidently these versions are also by Revere, as an entry in his Day book for December 21, 1771, records a charge against Edes & Gill 'to engraving 3 plates for Ames almanack.' The evidence suggests that Edes & Gill secured a copy of Russell's edition on the day it appeared and ordered reproductions of the cuts from Revere" [NAIP].Drake 3205. Evans 11961. NAIP w022505.

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12 leaves (complete), stitched. Some leaves quite spotted but not affecting legibility, about Good+. Evans overlooked this rare New London printing, which includes the important pre-Revolutionary Resolutions of the Town of Boston, urging development of domestic industries and discouraging European importations, in view of the "heavy Debt, incurred in the Course of the late War...Moneys that should go in Payment, are now to be taken from us, without our Consent, to support, independent of the People, and in greater Affluence, the Officers of the Crown; as also to maintain & keep up a large Body of Regular Troops in America." Bristol B2731. Drake 250. Shipton & Mooney 41689. NAIP w022476 [6].

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12mo. 12 leaves (complete), tanned, untrimmed, stitched. Some dusting and darkening, Good+.  "This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1769..." NAIP. New London, Hartford, Portsmouth, and New Haven printings also issued. It has a Table of roads and distances from Boston, "with the most noted Houses of Entertainment on the Roads." A 2 1/2 page 'Essay on Physick' is featured, on the "important art of preserving health" in a "degenerate age." It makes reference "to the training available at the Pennsylvania Hospital..." Guerra. Evans 11144. Drake 3185. Guerra b-235.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Tanned with some dusting, some corners turned. Good+. This offering celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface by Ames, lauding Americans' "exertion of that noble spirit of Freedom, which every thinking honest Man that has ever been galled with the chain of slavery is possessed of-- a spirit which GOD grant no tyrant may ever be able to extinguish amongst us." He encourages a spirit of nationalism, so "that when ever a Virginian shall visit this part of the Land of Freedom you will be no niggard of Hospitality." Ames also denounces the "absolute and despotick sway" of the Pope, pities the Europeans thus benighted, and recommends popular education so that "the common people" will not be "slaves" to aristocrats. The Almanac provides a table of distances of New England towns from Boston, "with the most noted Houses of Entertainment on the Roads." Evans 10226. Drake 3153.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched in attractive modern quarter leather with marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine title. Light age-toning, small hole affecting a few letters. Good+. This offering celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface by Ames, lauding Americans' "exertion of that noble spirit of Freedom, which every thinking honest Man that has ever been galled with the chain of slavery is possessed of-- a spirit which GOD grant no tyrant may ever be able to extinguish amongst us." He encourages a spirit of nationalism, so "that when ever a Virginian shall visit this part of the Land of Freedom you will be no niggard of Hospitality." Ames also denounces the "absolute and despotick sway" of the Pope, pities the Europeans thus benighted, and recommends popular education so that "the common people" will not be "slaves" to aristocrats. The Almanac provides a table of distances of New England towns from Boston, "with the most noted Houses of Entertainment on the Roads." Evans 10224. Drake 3150.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Title page with a tape repair to portion of the fore-edge; last page with several old repairs with transparent tape, text all visible. About Good+. This offering celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface by Ames, lauding Americans' "exertion of that noble spirit of Freedom, which every thinking honest Man that has ever been galled with the chain of slavery is possessed of-- a spirit which GOD grant no tyrant may ever be able to extinguish amongst us." He encourages a spirit of nationalism, so "that when ever a Virginian shall visit this part of the Land of Freedom you will be no niggard of Hospitality." Ames also denounces the "absolute and despotick sway" of the Pope, pities the Europeans thus benighted, and recommends popular education so that "the common people" will not be "slaves" to aristocrats. The Almanac provides a table of distances of New England towns from Boston, "with the most noted Houses of Entertainment on the Roads." Evans 10224. Drake 3150.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), loosened. Light dustsoiling and wear. Good+. The almanac prints the important pre-Revolutionary Resolutions of the Town of Boston, urging development of domestic industries and discouraging European importations, in view of the "heavy Debt, incurred in the Course of the late War...Moneys that should go in Payment, are now to be taken from us, without our Consent, to support, independent of the People, and in greater Affluence, the Officers of the Crown; as also to maintain & keep up a large Body of Regular Troops in America." This is the issue with 'Vacations at Havard [sic]-College' at the bottom of the last page, and noted by Drake [with 'Havard' spelled correctly]. Evans records the Boston issue with the 'Ephemeris' on the last leaf, which is also present here. The Almanac provides a table of distances of New England towns from Boston, "with the best Stages to put up at." Evans 10541. Drake 3160.

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16mo, 12 leaves (complete), age-toned with scattered foxing. Good+. The first almanac produced by Nathaniel Ames the younger, with "An Elegy on the Death of the late Dr Ames," his father, and discussions of almanac-making in general. He warns his readers that the "heavy Duties" laid upon the colonists and their growing burden of debt, in the aftermath of the French and Indian War, will surely make their lives harder. He dislikes "Gentlemen of the Bar" who stir up strife and lawsuits, lists roads and distances, and provides "Some Practical Rules for Husbandry." Evans 9570. Drake 3142.

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Eight leaves (complete). Disbound, light wear and spotting, occasional light fading. Good+. An exceedingly rare almanac. Shipton & Mooney note that Evans's listing was "Assumed from the sequence." NAIP does not record it, but AAS does own a copy.Evans 12645. Drake 287 [recording a location only in a "private collection"].

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