Beschreibung
Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by George Greenhill, Treasurer to the Company, various printers, all 1806 first editions. Bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt decorations on the spine and boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound in at each title page are thin paper strips which protrude from the fore-edge, upon which is printed an abbreviated version of the title of each almanac. The almanacs are: The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository (Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks); The Ladies' Diary or Woman's Almanac (Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and many entertaining Particulars Designed for the use and diversion of the Fair Sex) this includes mathematical problems; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore, containing weather observations for previous years throughout the year, tide tables, lunar and other astronomical data, astrological observations on the four quarters of the year, a chronology of Remarkable Events since 1066, and an article with engravings concerning the partial eclipse of the sun due that year; Merlinus Liberatus, by John Partridge, containing similar astronomical tables, including a table of the Rising , Southing and Setting of the Pleiades or Seven Stars for every 5th Day in the Year, of excellent use to find the Hour of the Night, A chronology from the creation of the Earth (3760 BC) up to 1752 AD, details of the coming eclipse, and much astrological detail; Old Poor Robin, Written by Poor Robin, Knight of the Burnt-Island and Well wisher to the Mathematicks , which appears to be a satire on the phenomenon of the Almanac, containing all you might find in other almanacs, but in ludicrous form (weather for July: No Snow this month and Very Little Frost) , there are poems, humour, and the diverting and unheard-of Story of the Courtship and Marriage of Young Squire Beetle; Speculum Anni; Or, Season on the Seasons by Henry Season, containing the usual tables, much astronomical data, including the Moon's Southing, and The Georgian or New Planet, showing the position of Uranus throughout the year, and various other tables, also engravings of the eclipse; The Coelestial Atlas by Robert White, primarily astronomical, with tables of the Heliocentick 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 etc. The book is in very good condition, with rubbing to the spine and bumping to the boards, the gilt decorations remaining bright. The gilt edges are a trifle dust darkened on the top edges, but otherwise bright. The title pages are all printed in black and red, and each bears an almanac duty stamp. There is one small pencil drawing, possibly of planetary orbits, on the final blank page, otherwise clean and bright and tightly bound. A wealth of information astronomical and meteorological, and otherwise, and a rare collection of such almanacs. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000968
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