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HARRIS, Benjamin (d. ca. 1716). Boston Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1692...Calculated for the Meridian of Boston in New-England...The Second Impression. Boston: Benjamin Harris, 1692 [i.e. 1691].
12o (168 x 105 mm). 20 pages. (Closely trimmed with some text shaved, some chips at edges with loss of text.) Self-wrappers.
This second impression is printed solely in black; the first was printed in red and black. Harris arrived in Boston in 1686. "It marks the beginning of a different American almanac style, format and content...He had the perspective or sense of homor so much needed in this transition from the old Puritan philosophy to the new more liberal way of thinking" (Sagendorf, p. 42). Page [15] contains a poem by Harris to King William and Queen Mary. The last several pages contain form documents which a reader could use for a general release, a form of indenture, a letter of attorney and a will. The Harris advertisement for aqua-antitorminalis (as in the previous Tulley almanac) appears at end. Bristol B-140; Drake 2886.
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This second impression is printed solely in black; the first was printed in red and black. Harris arrived in Boston in 1686. "It marks the beginning of a different American almanac style, format and content...He had the perspective or sense of homor so much needed in this transition from the old Puritan philosophy to the new more liberal way of thinking" (Sagendorf, p. 42). Page [15] contains a poem by Harris to King William and Queen Mary. The last several pages contain form documents which a reader could use for a general release, a form of indenture, a letter of attorney and a will. The Harris advertisement for aqua-antitorminalis (as in the previous Tulley almanac) appears at end. Bristol B-140; Drake 2886.