Skip to content

No image available

The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack For the Year of our Lord 1806: Being The Second after Bissextile or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Sixty-sixth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Fifty-fourth of the New Style in England.

No image available

The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack For the Year of our Lord 1806: Being The Second after Bissextile or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Sixty-sixth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Fifty-fourth of the New Style in England.

by SEVEN ALMANACS. 1806

  • Used
Condition
See description
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
LONDON, United Kingdom
Item Price
£825.00
Or just £805.00 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
£5.95 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 21 to 42 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By Nichols and Son...And Sold by George Greenhill..., 1806. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1806. Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and Many Entertaining Particulars designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair Sex. The Hundred-&-third Almanack published of this Kind. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by J. Adlard...And sold by G. Greenhill..., [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48, with woodcut image of a lady on the title-page. BOUND WITH: Vox Stellarum: Or a Loyal Almanack For the Year of Human Redemption 1806. Being the Second after Leap Year. And the 46th of the Reign of his present Majesty. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Return..... A remrkable Chronology; the Eclipses, And other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on the Weather and Weather Glasses, Rain. And an Hieroglyphic adapted to the Time. By Francis Moore... London. Printed for Company of Stationers, And sold by George Greenhill. [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: Merlinus Liberatus. An Almanack For the Year of our Redemption, 1806, Being the Bissextile, or Leap-Year; And from the Creation of the World, according to the best History, 5753, And the 117th of our Deliverance by K. William From Popery and Arbitrary Govenment; But the 111th from the Horrid, Popish, Jacobite Plots.... By John Partridge. London. Printed for the Company of Stationers By William Thorne...And Sold by George Greenfield...[1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: Old Poor Robin, An Almanack, Composed of A Variety of Subjects, both Ancient and Modern; And, for the Reader's farther Entertainment, Part in Prose, Part in Verse; Part Narrative, Part Contemplative; Part Serious, Part Comick; for the Entertinment and Improved Mind, and adapted to the meanest Capacity. Being A new improved Edition of a very old Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1806.... Written by Poor Robin, Knight of the Burnt-Island, and Well-wisher to the Mathematics. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By G. Woodfall... And sold by George Greenhill... [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: Speculum Anni: Or, Season on the Seasons. For the Year of our Lord 1806.... Wherein you will find all Things necessary for such a Work; Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting...and other Novelties. By Henry Season.... The Author's Seventy-third Impression. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By G. Woodfall... And sold by George Greenhill... [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: Atlas ouranios, The Coelestial Atlas; Or, A New Ephemeris For the Year of our Lord 1806.... Wherein are contained The Heliocentrick and Geocentrick Places of the Planets, The Eclipses of the Luminaries. And some other remarkable Phenomena that will happen this Year... To which are added several useful Tables.... By Robert White. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By G. Woodfall... And sold by George Greenhill... [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. 7 almanacs in one volume, all printed in 1806 and all printed in red and black, and with tabs or finding-strips at the fore-margin for each almanac, attractively bound in full straight-grain red morocco, gilt border on covers, all edges gilt, gilt spine (faded); a very good copy with the autograph "E. Bourne" on the recto of the second free end-paper and the autograph of "Mr. Davies" scored through.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
John Price Antiquarian Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
8781
Title
The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack For the Year of our Lord 1806: Being The Second after Bissextile or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Sixty-sixth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Fifty-fourth of the New Style in England.
Author
SEVEN ALMANACS. 1806
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By Nichols and Son...And Sold by George Greenhill..., 1806
Keywords
almanac chronology prose

Terms of Sale

John Price Antiquarian Books

Payment by cheque, credit card, cash. New customers will be invoiced pro forma. Books may be returned within two weeks for any reason; refund within 1 month for any reason; negotiable after that, but no returns after one year.

About the Seller

John Price Antiquarian Books

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2006
LONDON

About John Price Antiquarian Books

I work from home, but I am happy to see customers at almost any time by appointment.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

New
A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
G
Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Poor
A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Fair
is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Recto
The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
tracking-