Moore, Thomas (pseud.) The New York Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1772

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine

New York

(1771)

Rrontispiece engraved view of New York. Interleaved are fourteen pages of contemporary manuscript accounting records

Drake 5825; Evans 12130; North American Imprints Project 027204; Not mentioned in Stokes, Iconography of New York

With an Unrecorded View of New York Locating the "Jew's Synagogue" A good copy of the 1772 New York Pocket Almanac, complete with the exceedingly rare frontispiece view: "Prospect of the City of New-York." The view, evidently from the prospect of Brooklyn looking across the East River at the city, includes a key showing Fort George, "The Prison," "Jew's Synagogue," and eighteen churches and meeting houses