Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our Lord 1769....

The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The columns on the calendar pages, eclipse predictions, and other astronomical material duplicate those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1769 (Boston : Mein and Fleeming).
Advertised in the Boston chronicle, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1768.
Contains the earliest printing of the words and music together of The liberty song, which is generally held to be the first American patriotic song (p. [34]).
Advertisements for books, stationery, and medicine, p. [43-44].