$308
Mein and Fleeming's Massachusets Register, with an Almanack for the Year 1767. Boston: Mein and Fleeming, [1767]. 12mo, an interleaved copy, with contemporary manuscript notes, in a special publisher's calf binding with a pocket inside the back board and flap with a place to tuck into the front board, calendrical calculations by Benjamin West (1730-1813) identical to those that appear in West's New-England Almanack for 1767 the present almanac was advertised for sale in the Boston Gazette , on 2 February 1767. A manuscript note on the title page of the American Antiquarian Society copy indicates that this was the first register published in Massachusetts.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-18
