Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 132

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Nathaniel Whittemore.] An Almanac for the Year of Our Lord, 1718. Astronomical diagram. [14 of 16] pages. 12mo, disbound; lacking final leaf, repairs along backstrip, 2 minor repaired tears on fore-edge, numerous contemporary inked notes; uncut. "America" [Boston]: [Thomas Fleet?] for the author, [1717]

Additional Details

The annotations include notes on three deaths: of Isaac Foster on 13 January; "A.H." on 20 January; and Rev. Thomas Barnard of North Andover, MA on 13 October. Barnard had some connection with the Salem Witch Trials, and his house is now operated as an historic site. Another entry notes that "Hanah Foster took sick" on 6 December. Drake 2979; Evans 1937. 2 in OCLC, both at the American Antiquarian Society.