Almanacs - Early works to 1800
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Mercurius Coelicus Or A Caveat to All the People of the Kingdome
Booker, John, 1603-1667.Date: 1644- E-books
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The researches of science combined with requisites for business . Monday November 16, 1795, will be published, price one shilling. (to be Continued Annually,) The celestial telegraph, or almanack of the people. For The Year of Human Redemption 1796, Being the Bissextile, or Leap Year. Containing A Table of Terms and their Returns; the Usual English, and an Explanation of the French Calendar; the Daily Motions and Stations of the Sun and Moon; Tables of the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon; a eide Table; a Correct Account of the Eclipses. And other Useful Astronomical Intelligence, with an Excellent Gardeners Calendar. To which is Subjoined Astrological Speculations, and poetical Predictions Concerning the Weather, the Progress of the War, and the Probable Effects of the Three Oppositions of the Planets, Saturn and Mars, which happen in the Months of February, June, and August Next.
Date: [1795]- E-books
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The Oxford almanack explained ..
Date: 1706?]- E-books
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The modern gardener: or, Universal kalendar . Containing monthly directions for all the operations of gardening, to be done either in the kitchen, fruit, flower, and pleasure gardens, as likewife in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, a catalogue of kitchen garden plants and herbs, with the parts made use of in cookery; fruit trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbacenus flower plants, herbs for distilling and medicine, forest trees, flowering shrubs and evergreens, with great variety of curious greenhouse and stove plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in works of this kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, By James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Hitt, Thomas, d. 1770?.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]