Almanacs from The Owl at the Bridge

Foreword by D. H. Sadler, Superintendent of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office; Narrative: Transitional Years 1714-1730; A Break-Through, 1730-1740; The Mid-Century, 1740-1760; The New Reign, 1760-1780; The Great Instrument-Makers; The Surveyors and their Contemporaries, 1780-1800; Early Years of the New Century, 1800-1820; The Practitioners Disappear, 1820-1840. Biographies are listed in order by decade. xv, 502 pages, indexes, list of… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Published and Sold by Jenks & Palmer [1844]. Drake 4304. In addition to monthly information, includes Uncurrent and Broken Bank Bills in New England; Salt as a Manure; Poetry, Anecdotes, &c.; Roads; Census of States; A Table For foretelling the Weather through all the Lunations of each Year, forever. 48 pages. Closely trimmed at top;… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, Random House, c1956. Hard Cover. 71 p. illus. 28.5 cm. Publicity brochure for the film. "The Story of the World's Most Honored Show." Biographies of 47 actors, lists of participants. Stock# 36,804. Vg, illustrated boards.

Providence: Published And Sold By H. H. Brown [1832]. Soft Cover. The Astronomical Calculations by R. T. Paine, Esq. Editor of the American Almanack. Monthly information on facing pages, plus Miscellaneous Selections (Lightning, Mechanics, Drunkenness, Turkish Unconcern, Long Life, Friday, Smoking, The Hair. 24 pages; edges worn; 21.5 cm. Sewn into strong early rag paper with… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Bibliographical Society/R. R. Bowker, NY 1949. Hard Cover. xxiv, 665 p., index; 24 cm. Includes data on 1712 items, beginning with an Almanac of James Franklin in Newport and ending with 63 books of 1800. With full bibliographical descriptions and a number of annotations. Appendix B is a chronological table of Rhode Island printers. Owner signature of C.B.… Ler mais sobre este item

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 45 issue 2, Worcester, Mass., 1936. The sixty items in the bibliography are primarily almanacs with Stearns's (1741-1809) astronomical calculations. Softcover. 110 pages, plates; paper; Very Good. Stock#27688/h.

London, The Company of Stationers, 1836. Hard Cover. 72 pages; 17.5 cm. This is a collection of seven almanacs for the year 1837, all printed for the Company of Stationers. Included are The Ladies' Diary; Vox Stellarum; Merlinus Liberatus; White's Celestial Atlas; The Englishman's Almanack; The Mechanic's Almanack. Bound in gilded red leather; VG. Stock#OB395.