Tables of Time; Whereby The Day of the Month, either New or Old Stile; Day of the Week; Rising of the Sun; Time of the SUN'S Entrance into the Equinoxes and Solstices; Moveable Feasts, particularly true Time of EASTER; Fix'd FEASTS; Remarkable Times; MOON'S Age; ECLIPSES,, &c. may be found for any Time past, or to come, without the Help of Astronomical Tables. N. B. There are 500 Years, viz. 250 past, and 250 to come, ready calculated.
by SMETHURST, Gamaliel
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Printed for R. Whitworth, Bookseller; and sold by R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, in Pall Mall, London. Manchester. [1749]. 12mo. . pp. viii, 132, 48 pages engraved tables. Late nineteenth century morocco, flat-backed, the spine wearing along the edges, joints intact, the title laid down with name cut from the upper margin not affecting text, else in very good condition. *The last gasp of the Julian Calendar before the adoption of the Gregorian in 1752. An early ms. marginal note refers to this change.
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- Tables of Time; Whereby The Day of the Month, either New or Old Stile; Day of the Week; Rising of the Sun; Time of the SUN'S Entrance into the Equinoxes and Solstices; Moveable Feasts, particularly true Time of EASTER; Fix'd FEASTS; Remarkable Times; MOON'S Age; ECLIPSES,, &c. may be found for any Time past, or to come, without the Help of Astronomical Tables. N. B. There are 500 Years, viz. 250 past, and 250 to come, ready calculated.
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- SMETHURST, Gamaliel
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- Printed for R. Whitworth, Bookseller; and sold by R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, in Pall Mall, London. Manchester. [1749]. 12mo.
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