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Freind 1616 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1616,being leape yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all of England / by Gabriell Freind.
Date: 1616
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1787. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year. Common notes and moveable feasts in 1787. Dominical letter - - G golden Number - - - 2 cycle of the sun - - 4 epact - - - - - - 11 Roman indiction - - 5 shrove Sunday 18 Feb. Easter Day - 8 April. Whit Sunday - 27 May. Trinity Sunday 3 June. Advent Sunday 2 Dec. Venus will be a morning Star till the 18th of October, afterwards an evening Star to the year's end. Jupiter is an evening Star till May 24, then a morning Star till Dec. 13, and then an evening Star to the year's end. Six Eclipses will happen this year: I. Jan. 3, moon eclipsed, visible; from 10 at Night, till 35 m. past one in the morning of Jan. 4. II. Jan. 19, sun eclipsed, visible; from 54 m. past nine, till 12 m. past eleven morning. III. June 15, sun eclipsed, visible; from 12 m. past four, till 47 m. past five in the afternoon. IV. June 30, moon eclipsed, invisible; at one in the afternoon. V. Dec. 9, sun eclipsed, invisible; at a Quarter past four in the afternoon. VI. Dec. 24, moon eclipsed, visible; from 42 min. past one, till 32 min. past four in the afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1787]
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The gentleman's and dealer's Cork almanack For the Year 1778, Being second after leap year, And the eighteenth year of King George III. Reign, Until the Twenty-Fifth of October, containing The Sun's Rising and Setting; Day Break; Eclipses; Moon's Age, Rising, Setting, and Southing; Lunations; Solar Ingresses; Terms; High Water at Cork; Bankers and Custom House Holidays; Several very Useful Tables; New Rates of Coaches and Chaises; A Correct List of the fairs in the Kingdom; Mathematical Questions; Enigmas; and Rebuses, for the Improvement of the Sciences; Calculated for the Meridian of the City of Cork, in Latitude 51- 49- North, and 9- 10- West Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich. By Patrick Aher, Philomath.
Aher, Patrick.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the Year of our Lord God 1788. Being the Bissextile, or Leap Year. Common Notes and Moveable-Feasts in 1788. Dominical Letter - - FE Golden Number - - - 3 Cycle of the Sun - - 5 Epact - - - - - - 22 Roman Indiction - - 6 Shrove Sunday 3 Feb. Easter Day - 23 Mar. Whit Sunday - 11 May. Trinity Sunday 18 May. Advent Sunday 30 Nov. Venus will be an Evening Star till the 8th of August, afterwards a Morning Star to the Year's End. Jupiter is an Evening Star till June 29, and then a Morning Star to the Year's End. Two Eclipses will happen this Year: I. June 4, Sun eclipsed, visible. Begins 7h 241/2m. morn. Middle 8 11 End 9 0 Digits eclipsed 3 59. II. November 27, Sun eclipsed, invisible, at 10 minutes past 6, afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1788]
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Old Poor Robin. An almanack, composed (according to the modern mode ... for the year of our Lord, 1800. ... Written by Poor Robin, ...
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.Date: [1800]
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The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris, for the year 1774. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude
Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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The Belfast town and country almanack, for the year 1795. (Being the third after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, eclipses of the sun and moon-sun's rising and setting-moon's quarters, age, and southing-number of days in each month-days in the week for every month of the year-observations to each month-monthly fairs-common notes-feasts-terms-the royal family-Bristol and Chester fairs. Stamp-duties on bills. D...is, and receipts, in ... likewise, 1. An ingenious calculation, - page 2 2. The country-man's weather-wiser; or Proguolties of the weather from vegetables - ... 3. A droll Irish advertisemant, - ... 4. A sunny parable to report-catchers, ... 5. The coxcomb and barber's boy, - - - 4 6. The Irishman in love, - - - - 5 7. Making toil of a pleasure, - - - - 6 8. The man and his small wife, - - - 7 9. Anecdote of an Irishman, - - - - 10 10. The quack doctor, - - - - 12 11. A sailor's love-letter to his sweetheart, 13 12. A curious comparison, - - - - 15 13. An Irish bull-inscription in a Church-yard, - 16.
Date: 1795?]
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Poulson's town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1800 ...
Date: [1799]
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Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption 1800, ... By Francis Moore, ...
Moore, Francis, 1657-1714.Date: [1800]
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Olympia dōmata; or, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1800; ... By Tycho Wing, ...
Wing, Tycho, 1696-1750.Date: [1800]
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The american kalendar; or United States register, for New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. For the year 1800. A correct copy of the federal constitution of the united states, &c. &c. to be continued annually, And will be carefully corrected to the Time of Publication.
Date: 1800
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Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption, 1800, ... By Francis Moore.
Moore, Francis, 1657-1714.Date: [1800]
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Poulson's town and country almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1801 ...
Date: [1800]
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The Washignton [sic] almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1801. ... Calculated for Pennsylvania, Delaware, Marlyand, Virginia and Kentucky.
Date: --1801 [i.e., 1800]
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Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption, 1800. ... By Francis Moore, ...
Moore, Francis, 1657-1714.Date: 1800
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The Belfast town and country almanack, for the year 1796. (Being leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile [sic]: containing, eclipses of the sun and moon - Sun's rising and setting - Moon's quarters, age, and southing ...
Date: 1796?]
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[Almanac].
Date: [1581]
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The Bengal kalendar and register, for the year 1800; containing eclipses in the year 1800, ... Also, full and accurate lists of the Honorable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment; ... To which is added, a list of European inhabitants, resident in Calcutta ... The whole revised and corrected to the 31st January, 1800.
Date: [1800]
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Goldsmith, 1679. An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1679. Being the third after leap-year, and from the creation, 5628. : Wherein are contained mainly observations, rules and tables both necessary and useful. With a description of the highways, marts and fairs in England and Wales, the like not extant in any other / calculated by John Goldsmith ; to which is added divers [sic] tables and other useful things which have not been in former years.
Goldsmith, John, active 1678-1679Date: 1679
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News from the stars: or, an ephemeris for the year 1701. With Observations upon the Eclipses, Solar Ingresses and Configurations of Heaven happening therein. Being the first since the Bissextile, or Leap Year, according to the Julian, or Old Account. And from the Creation of the World, according to the best of History, 5650 years. Wherein You have an Account of many things about the Heavenly Bodies, and their Portents in the same Year. By William Andrews, Student in Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.Date: 1701
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News from the stars: or, an ephemeris for the year, 1702. With Observations upon the Eclipses, Solar Ingresses and Configurations of Heaven happening therein. Being the second since the Bissextile, or Leap-Year according to the Julian, or Old Account. And from the Creation of the world, according to the best of History, 5651 years. Wherein You have an Account of many things about the Heavenly Bodies, and their Portents in the same year. By William Andrews, Student in Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.Date: 1702
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News from the stars: or, an ephemeris for the year, 1704. With Observations upon the Eclipses, Solar Ingresses and Configurations of Heaven, happening therein. Being the Bissextile, or Leap-Year. And from the Creation of the world, according to the best of History, 5653 years. Wherein You have an Account of many things about the Heavenly Bodies, and their Portents in the same year. By William Andrews, Student in Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.Date: 1704
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Olympia Dōmata; or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1735. Being the third from Bissextile, or Leap-Year. And from the World's creation, 5738. Wherein is contained the lunations, conjunctions, aspects, and effects of the planets, the increase, decrease, and length of the days and nights; with the rising, southing, and setting of the planets and fixed stars throughout the year, whereby may be known the exact hour of the night at all times, when either the moon or stars are seen; and an equation table, for the rectifying pendulum clocks and watches. Calculated according to art, and referred to the horizon of the antient and renowned Borough town of Stamford (formerly a famous University) whose longitude is 24 deg. 20 min. and latitude 52 deg. 41 min. fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible error the whole kingdom. By John Wing, Philomath. Imprimatur, E. B.
Wing, John, 1643-1726.Date: 1735
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Great news from the stars or, an ephemeris for the year, 1706. With Observations upon the Eclipses, Solar Ingresses and Configurations of Heaven, happening therein. Being the Second from the Bissextile, or Leap-Year. And from the Creation of the world according to the best of History, 5655 Years. Wherein You have an Account of many things about the Heavenly Bodies, and their Portents in the same year, with some other Considerable Matters. By William Andrews, Student in Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.Date: 1706
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The Aberdeen almanack, for the year 1797, Being the First after Leap Year, and of the Julian Period, 6509. Inscribed, with the greatest Respect, to George More, Esq; Provost; William Shepherd, William Littlejohn, Charles Farquharson, Robert Garden, Esqrs. Baillies; Thomas Leys, Esq; Dean of Guild; Gavin Hadden, Esq; Treasurer; And the remanent Members of the Town-Council of the City of Aberdeen. By Their obliged humble Servants, J. Chalmers & Co
Date: [1797]