Tables of Time; Whereby The Day of the Month either New or Old Stile [sic]; Days of the Week; Rising of the Sun.... Moveable Feasts... Eclipses. There are 500 Years, viz. 250 past and 250 to come, ready calculated.
by SMETHURST, Gamaliel
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About This Item
[1749] . R. Whitworth. Manchester. First edition. [1749]. 12mo. viii, 132 pages + 48 pages of tables. Engraved head and tail-pieces. Bound in 18th century full brown mottled calf gilt, rubbed to extremities but very sound. Slight browning to pages, plate removed from front pastedown. A very clean and sound copy.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87483
- Title
- Tables of Time; Whereby The Day of the Month either New or Old Stile [sic]; Days of the Week; Rising of the Sun.... Moveable Feasts... Eclipses. There are 500 Years, viz. 250 past and 250 to come, ready calculated.
- Author
- SMETHURST, Gamaliel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- [1749]
- Keywords
- SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL and MEDICAL time astronomy dates almanac equinoxes eclipses
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL and MEDICAL;
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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