Almanacs, English - Early works to 1800
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A companion to The ladies diary, for the year 1780 . Containing aenigmas, rebusses, mathematical essays, questions and solutions, &c. By Reuben Burrow, Late Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Observatory; and Mathematical Master of the Drawing-Room in the Tower.
Burrow, Reuben, 1748-1792.Date: [1780]- E-books
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An almanack but for one day: or, the fall of Adam. ... The execution
Date: 1719- E-books
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The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book , for the year 1790. Being the Second after Leap Year. Embellished with the fashionable Dresses of the Year 1789, and a beautiful View of the Front of Carlton-House. Containing, Amongst a great Variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive Articles, the following: The necessary Pages for Engagements, Memorandums, and Expences, ruled in a more plain and familiar Manner than any yet adapted for the Use of the Ladies; Tables of all the moveable and immoveable Feasts, Fasts, and Holidays in the Year; Days and Hours for buying, accepting, or transferring Stock, and receiving Dividends; Holidays at the Public Offices; Royal Family of Great Britain; Regal Table; Sovereigns of Europe's Birth Days; Perpetual Diary; Interest Table; Essay on Ceremony; Reflexions on Forethought; on the Advantage of Society; A Lady's Choice in Matrimony; Ode to Sleep; A Nuptual Card; On a Watch; Receipts in Cosmetics and Medicine; The favourite Songs and Country Dances for the Year; New Rates of Coachmen and Watermen; with several useful Particulars, necessary Marketing Tables, &c. Compiled at the Request of several Ladies of Quality.
Date: [1790]- E-books
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The new memorandum book improv'd or, the gentleman and tradesman's daily pocket journal for the year 1753. Disposed in a Method more useful and convenient for all Sorts of Business, than any of those who have pretended to imitate it; and as it was the First, so it is now the Best Book of the Kind. Containing, 1. Fifty-Two Pages for the Receipts and Expences of every Week in the Year. 2. Divisions for every Day in the Year. Useful to enter any future Appointments or Engagements, or to shew when any Notes or Payments will become due. 3. An Historical Register for the Year 1752. 4. Rates of Coachmen, Chairmen, Carmen, Porters, and Watermen. 5. Rates of Post-Letters, Foreign and Domestic. Schemes of all the Insurance-Offices. And an Account where all the Publick Offices are kept. 6. Tables of Expences by the Day, Week, or Year. Of the Value of any Number of Portugal Pieces in English Money. Of Interest, for any Sum, for any Numb. of Days, and at any Rate. 7. The Times of the Dividends and Transfer Days at the Bank, India and South-Sea Houses. 8. The Holidays kept at all the Publick Offices. The Value of Annuities. A Regal Table, &c. &c. With a large collection of useful memorandums proper for every man of business to know.
Date: 1753- E-books
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Merry Andrew: or an almanack after a new fashion, for the year 1746. It being the second after Bessixtile, or Leap-Year: Wherein the Reader may find (if he have more Brains than a Butterfly) many remarkable Things, worthy his Observation: calculated for the meridian of any place in Scotland, where they understand an ape from an aple, and a sucking Pig from a Hay-Stack. And fitted for the Noddles of most Peoples Understanding. By Merry Andrew, professor of prediction by star-gazing at Tamtallon:.
Merry Andrew.Date: Printed for the year, 1746