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Speculum perspicuum Uranicum: or, An almanack for the year of our redemption, 1687 : Being the 3d. after the bissextile or leap-year. And from the creation of the world 5654 years Since the death of our Saviour, 1654 years. The conquest of William D. of Normandy, 621 years. The M. of K. Charles the First, 30 years. The restau. of K. Charles II. and K. James II. 27yars [sic] London was burned, 21 years. Wherein is contained a true description of the year, and of the several parts thereof, with a true account of such eclipses as will happen this year. ... Calculated, for the meridian of the ancient and famous city of London, whose latitude is 51 degrees and 32 minutes, and will serve without sensible error for any part of England throughout. The seventeenth impression
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Speculum perspicuum Uranicum: or, An almanack for the year of our redemption, 1687 : Being the 3d. after the bissextile or leap-year. And from the creation of the world 5654 years Since the death of our Saviour, 1654 years. The conquest of William D. of Normandy, 621 years. The M. of K. Charles the First, 30 years. The restau. of K. Charles II. and K. James II. 27yars [sic] London was burned, 21 years. Wherein is contained a true description of the year, and of the several parts thereof, with a true account of such eclipses as will happen this year. ... Calculated, for the meridian of the ancient and famous city of London, whose latitude is 51 degrees and 32 minutes, and will serve without sensible error for any part of England throughout. The seventeenth impression / collected and published by Lancelot Coelson ...
Published
London : Printed by A. Grover [and Ralph Holt] for the Company of Stationers, [1687]
Physical Description
[48] p. : ill. (woodcut), tables ; 16 cm (8vo)
Local Notes
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 4 of 12 titles bound together.
Notes
Title page and calendar in red and black.
The words "the death of our Saviour, ... was burned, 21 years." are bracketed together on title page.
Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.
"Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack" has separate dated title page with "printed by Ralph Holt" in imprint; register is continuous.
Variant and related titles
Speculum perspicuum uranicum
Almanack for the year of our redemption, 1687
Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack
Second part of this almanack
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 23, 2013
References
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), A1434
English short title catalogue, R36747
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Genre/Form
Almanacs.
Annotations (Provenance) - 17th century.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
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