Lot 135: [GEORGE, DANIEL?]

Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, for the Year of our Redemption, 1780.... and the Fourth of American Independence. Boston: Printed and Sold by Draper and Folsom, and John Mycall, of Newbury, [1779]

8vo, in half-sheets (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.; 159 x 105 mm). Full-page woodcut plan of the storming of Stony Point on A1v; 3 leaves just shaved at foot, some minor scattered foxing. Stab-sewn as issued.

LITERATURE

Cresswell 309; Drake 3290; Evans 16287

NOTE

A scarce almanac containing a very early depiction of Anthony Wayne's dramatic victory at Stony Point: "View of the British Fortress at Stoney Point, stormed and carried by a party of the Light Corps of the American Army under the command of Gen. Wayne on the morning of the 16th of July last." According to Nebenzahl's Atlas of the American Revolution, the only battle plan of this engagement (by John Hills, published by William Faden) was not issued until after the war.

Evans attributes this almanac to the prolific Ezra Gleason, but the astronomical calculations accord more closely with those in George's Almanack for... 1780 (Evans 16286), which was printed in Newbury by Mycall and also sold in Boston by Draper and Folsom.