The New-York Pocket Almanack | A second Hugh Gaine almanac from the period of the French and Indian War

The New-York Pocket Almanack
The New-York Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1759. Calculated for the Use of the Province of New-York, and the neighbouring Provinces. By Poor Tom, Philomath. New-York: Printed and Sold by H[ugh]. Gaine, at the Bible & Crown in Hanover-Square, [1758]

12mo (115 x 65 mm). 24 printed leaves, interleaved with numerous blank leaves for annotations, below the imprint on the title-page is a table of "Signs, Planets, and Aspects," with a full-page woodcut "Exact Plan of the Harbour of Louisbourg";a very few border rules at top. Orange-gilt pastepaper wrappers; rubbed.

Another very rare Hugh Gaine almanac containing information about the French and Indian War supplied by both the publisher and, in manuscript, by the volume's first owner. One copy of this almanac appears in the auction records: the Robert Proud copy sold by Henkels, 8 May 1903, lot 256 for the then-considerable price of $50. The Proud copy featured an inserted portrait of Frederick the Second of Prussia, which has led to some confusion about whether or not a frontispiece portrait is called for (it is not). ESTC locates two copies, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Nova Scotia Public Archives. Eavns attributes the calculations to Theophilus Grew.

REFERENCE
Drake 5717; ESTC W42210; Evans 8144

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.