Almanacs, English - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A New edition corrected to the 18th of May, of the Royal kalendar; or Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year 1784 Including a complete and correct list of the 16the Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session on the 18th of May 1784. Upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public: Containing. England. I. Complete and correct list of both Houses of Parliament; all the state, law, revenue, and public offices, at the court, in the city of London, and different parts of the Kingdom; the army and navy; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the peers, baronets, state, law, revenue, and public offices, universities, physicians. &c. Ireland. III. Both House of Parliament, a complete list of the baronets, all the law, state revenue, and public offices, bankers, deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The military and civil establishments; governors law and revenue officers agents, &c. &c. And corrected at the respective offices.
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Perkins . A new almanack, for the year of our Lord God 1737. Being the first after bissextile or leap year. And from the word's creation, 5686 years. Composed and chiefly referred to the famous city of London; but will serve for any part of Great Britain or Ireland. Adorn'd with many curious physical receipts, fit and easy to be understood by country people, for whose benefit (chiefly) they are inserted; as also, a compendious chronology of things worth remembrance, since the creation to this present year; with the weather, the rising & setting of the sun, rising, setting, and southing of the moon, a table of all the Kings and Queens reigns since K. Egbert. A table of the high-ways, and many other useful things Made and set forth by F. Perkins student in physick and the mathematick.
Perkins, F. (Francis).Date: [1737?]- E-books
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The cælestial diary: Or An ephemeris for the year of our blessed saviour's incarnation, 1725 it being the first after bissextile, or leap-year , and from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5674 years. Wherein is contained, the morion, aspects, and operation of the planets; with observations upon the eclipses, and solar ingresses; with other remarkable passages, as the moon's southing, sun and moon's rising and setting, and monthly observations, &c. calculated according to art, and referred to the meridian of the midst of Great Britain, fitting the whole monarchy without sensible error. The seventh impression. By Salem Pearse, student in physick and the cælestial science.
Pearse, Salem, fl. 1719.Date: 1725- E-books
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The British palladium; or, Annual miscellany: for the bissextile year 1768 . Containing annual and useful tables, and entertaining and interesting subjects in literature and science. With remarks on the nautical ephemeris, and the joint effect of refraction and parallax determined, for finding the longitude. Serving for land and sea. The twentieth number published. Humbly inscribed to the commissioners of longitude. By the author of The improv'd royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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An almanack for the year of our blessed saviour's incarnation 1715 . And from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5664. But by the account of Holy Scripture, 5677. It being the IIId after bissextile or leap-year. And the 26th our deliverance by K. William from popery and arbitrary government. In which is contained things fitting for such a work: as the diurnal motion of the planets, conjunctions, lunations, and eclipses. Monthly observations, and a general judgement on the hour quarters of the year. Together with something considered about the comet in the year 1680. Calculated and referr'd to the meridian of London, whose longitude latitude is 24 51 degr. 20 32 minutes. John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715.Date: [1715]