Bowen, Nathan:

MDCCXXV. THE NEW-ENGLAND DIARY, OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR JOF OUR LORD CHRIST 1725...APPLY'D TO THE HORIZON OF BOSTON, N.ENGLAND, WHERE THE NORTH POLE IS RAISED, AND THE SOUTH POLE DEPRESS'D EQUAL TO AN ANGLE OF 42 GRS. 25 MAND A MERIDIAN 4 HO. 7 44 MIN. WEST OF LONDON. BY A NATIVE OF NEW- ENGLAND.

      Boston: Printed and sold by B. Green, and sold also at the booksellers shops, [i.e. 1724]. 1725 - [24]pp. Dbd. Moderately agetoned. Edges worn, affecting a few printed characters. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Nathaniel Cutter" on pp.[9] and [12], additional contemporary inscriptions on pp.[11] and [13]. 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. All are sixteen pages, with the exception of the present almanac. In a note to the reader on p.[17], Bowen writes, "In this my fifth essay to serve the publick, finding the contracted limits of a single sheet of paper, not sufficient to contain all that in the revolution of a year may be very serviceable to the public; I have at the desire of some friends this year presented you with a sheet and a half." The additional pages include information on tides, the passage of the sun throughout the year, the rising of Venus, a table of distances from Boston to New York, and a description of "how to make a sun dial by which a blind man may know the hours of the days." This is one of two editions published in 1725 attributed to Bowen, the only year in which two separate editions appeared. The other edition, printed and sold in Boston by J. Franklin, was sixteen pages in length and is said to be a pirated printing, primarily of the calculations and eclipse notes. EVANS 2506. DRAKE 3013. NAIP w03634333.