almanacks (4 Ergebnisse)

12mo, 32 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Unbound and stitched. Text clear and entire. Tight, but grubby and dogeared, and with closed tear and creasing at head of recto of front wrap. Densely printed in a variety of point sizes, with frontispiece and twelve wood-cuts (one for each month). Contains advertisements, 'Borough Regulations', a 'Gardener's Calendar', 'Table of the Sun's rising and setting' and other matter. Neat ownership signature of 'Mrs. Paterson' at head of recto of front wrap, and twelve others of her signatures at the head of each month. Frontispiece captioned 'View of Bolton, America, The Birth-place of Dr. Benj. Franklin.' Two copies listed on COPAC.

Seven works in one volume, 12mo: The Gentleman's Diary pp. 48; The Ladies' Diary pp. 48; Vox Stellarum pp. 48; Merlinus Liberatus pp. 48; Old Poor Robin pp. 48; Speculum Anni pp. 48; ?t?a? ???a???? pp. 48; printed in red and black; bound together in contemporary red morocco, gilt roll-tool border, spines gilt with a phoenix device, front board detached, covers soiled; vellum sectional tabs with manuscript captions.A standard collection of seven almanacks printed for the Company of Stationers. The Company issued a standard annual finely bound collection of almanacks, always commencing with The Gentleman's Diary, from the 1740s on. By 1801 the Company's 'English Stock' list comprised twenty-five titles, including psalters and primers as well as almanack. The Gentleman's and Ladies' Diary both included enigmas and sets of mathematical questions (along with the answers to last year's questions); Vox Stellarum and Merlinus Liberatus concentrated on astrology and astronomy; Old Poor Robin, crude and satirical, provided amusing verse and prose extracts; Speculum Anni included historical and geographical observations; and the Atlas Coelestis comprised tables.See Swetz, The Impact and Legacy of 'The Ladies' Diary' (17401840): a Woman's Declaration (2000). Language: English.

14 Almanacks all for 1724, all published in London. 8vo. Modern contemporary style quarter calf, marbled boards, new endpapers. Slightly tight binding.

Bound in contemporary red morocco , heavily rubbed, the lower joint starting at the upper end. The corners bumped with the boards showing through. Marbled endpapers. The Almanacks are in very good condition, are clean and bright, and each has integral bound in page marker . 1 - The Gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our lord 1797 being the first after bissextile. Containing many useful and entertaining particulars peculiarly adapted to the ingenious gentlemen engaged in the delightful study and practice of the mathematicks The fifty-seventh almanack published of this kind; and the Forty-fifth of the New-Style in England. . London : Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, at the Hall in Ludgate-Street, 1797.48p. 8°.Titlepage in red and black. Price in square brackets: (Price Eleven Pence stitched.) N 30930. BOUND WITH : 2 - The ladies' diary: or woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1797; being the first after bissextile, or leap-year. Containing new improvements in arts and sciences, and many entertaining particulars: designed for the use and diversion of the fair-sex. The ninety-fourth almanack published of this kind. London : printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street, [ 1797. ] 46 [i.e. 48] p. ill. ; 8°. Titlepage in red and black Compiled by Charles Hutton .P. 48 misnumbered 46. Price from imprint: price stitched, Eleven-Pence. ESTC N3195. WITH 3 : - MOORE, Francis. Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption 1797, . London : printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, . 1797. 48p. ill; 8° .Partly printed in red and black. ESTC T146020. WITH 4 : - PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus liberatus. Being an almanack for the year of our redemption, 1797, . London : printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, [ 1797. ] 48p. ; 8°.Titlepage and calendar in red and black. ESTC T146020. WITH : 5 - [ WINSTANLEY, William. ] Old Poor Robin. An almanack, composed (according to the modern mode . for the year of our Lord, 1797. . Written by Poor Robin, . London : |b printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by R. Horsfield, . [ 1797. ] London : printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by R. Horsfield, [ 1797. ] 48p. 8°.Titlepage and main text in red and black. With an additional titlepage to the second part. Preface dated: Near Saffron-Walden, July 27, 1796. ESTC 120540. WITH 6 : - SEASON, Henry. Speculum anni: or, Season on the seasons, for the year of our Lord 1797: . By Henry Season, . The author's sixty-fourth impression. London : printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield, [ 1797.] 48p. ill. 8°. Titlepage and calendar in red and black. ESTC T146214. WITH : 7 - WING, Tycho. Olympia domata; or, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1797; . By Tycho Wing. London : printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield, [ 1797. ] 48p. 8°. Titlepage in red and black. The first two words transliterated from the Greek. ESTC T28643. WITH 8 : - WHITE, Robert. Atlas ouranios, the coelestial atlas; or, a new ephemeris for the year of our Lord 1797. Being the First after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein are contained The Heliocentrick and Geocentrick Places of the Planets, the Eclipses of the Luminaries, and other remarkable Phenomena that will happen this Year. Carefully computed From the genuine Tables of Dr. Edmund Halley, those of Professor Mayer, and other the latest and most correct Astronomical Tables. Also A Complete Almanack, containing the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; the Times of the Lunations; the Rising and Setting of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, &c. Adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. To which are added Several useful Tables: As, a Table of the Sun's semi-diurnal Arcs, by which the Times of the Sun's Rising and Setting may be kn.