Mein and Fleeming's Massachusets Register, with an Almanack for the Year 1767.

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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.
Estimate $200-300

[A]4, B-F4, [G]-[H]2, [I]1.


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