A vindication of the new calendar tables and rules : annexed to the Act for regulating the commencement of the year, and correcting the calendar, against the objections made to it, with respect to the time appointed for the celebration of Easter Day: to which is added, a more full account of the Act; written whilst it was depending in the House of Commons.

  • Daval, Peter, -1763.
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MDCCLXI. [1761]
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London : printed for M. Withers, at the Seven Stars, between the Temple Gates, Fleetstreet, MDCCLXI. [1761]

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2 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (23 cm)

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Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4312
ESTC, N475493
ESTC N475493

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Price below imprint (between square brackets): Price Six-Pence.
Signatures: A1 B-C⁴ D1.
The author was Peter Duval, secretary to the Royal Society; see John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century ii 372; see also C.R. Weld, A history of the Royal Society (1848), v. 1, pp. 515 ff.
Printed by William Bowyer.
Copy 1. Binding: 18th century patterned papers, calf spine with five raised bands and red goatskin label lettered in gold: Mathemat Tracts. On front endleaf: 18th century manuscript list of contents.

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