1777 Astronomical Almanac with NY Map, "Address to the Tories" and Anti-British Poem

"An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for…1777" by Nathaniel Low. [Boston: J. Gill, 1776]. Sixteenmo, 19 double-sided pages. Featuring an illustrated with a woodcut map titled, "A View of the Present Seat of War, at and near New-York", depicting New York, Staten Island, and parts of New Jersey, as well as George Washington's lines and Bunker Hill. Also include an "Address to the Tories" written by Low, and a poem throughout concerning American freedom and British tyranny, beginning "let tyrants rage." Al the end of the almanac is a list of major roads to Boston and taverns in the area. Throughout are numerous contemporary annotations, detailing monetary transactions, farming notes, etc. The book is
stitch-sewn, with many leaves starting to become unbound. The first page has become loose. Pages are worn and soiled, with toning, foxing, and dampstaining throughout. Page edges are chipped with creased corners.

Low's "Address to the Tories" reads in part: "Every enemy to his country and its liberties, I esteem an enemy to myself. The liberties of America and the rights of mankind, whatever your professed principles may be, your practices diametrically oppose. You esteem to have no just notions of what the wisest man have defined liberty…The doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance, and 'the right divine of Kings to govern wrong' is your darling tenet…I expect nothing that I can say will in the least alter the corrupt bias of your minds; you are too far advanced in your wicked apostacy to afford the least ray of hope that you will ever be recovered…Are you not continually endeavouring to interrupt the harmony which so happily subsists in these united states?... I beseech you to consider what are the rewards which you expect in competition - Should you obtain the honours that you hope for, would that be sufficient recompense? - Should you satisfy your lust of power, of interest, fame, and glory; - Would that atone for the wrongs done to your injured country, or quiet the remorse of our own consciences?...But on the other hand, Should America be so successful as by a noble stand to support independence and maintain its liberties uncorrupted against the present disposition of public affairs there is the greatest reason to hope…"

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