DABOLL'S NEW-ENGLAND ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR 1775. CALCULATED FOR THE MERIDIAN OF NEW- LONDON, IN LAT. 41 DEG. 25 MIN. NORTH, AND 4 HOURS 45 MIN. WEST OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT GREENWICH

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New London: Printed and sold by T. Green, [1774].. [32]pp. including a woodcut portrait of Jonathan Shipley on the titlepage and a woodcut of a lunar eclipse on p.[32]. Later stitching. Original stab holes in inner margin. Titlepage and last page agetoned and soiled. Moderate agetoning and soiling internally. A good copy. A Revolutionary- era Connecticut almanac with a white-line woodcut portrait of Dr. Jonathan Shipley entitled "The Patriotic Bishop." Twelve pages in this almanac reprint Shipley's famous speech criticizing Britain's uncompromising colonial measures which was "intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charter of the province of the Massachusetts Bay." First delivered in 1774, the speech was printed in numerous editions both in London and the colonies in that same year. In addition to the speech, this almanac includes the calendar year (with each month accompanied by a short poem), predictions for the year's eclipses (illustrated with a lunar eclipse), distances from New London to the principal towns on the continent, and a schedule of courts in New England. EVANS 13235. TRUMBULL 242. JOHNSON, NEW LONDON IMPRINTS 976. DRAKE 298. NAIP w035258. HOWES S420 (ref).