The coelestial diary: or, an ephemeris for the year of our blessed Saviour's incarnation, 1761. Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap-Year, and from the Creation of the World, according to the best of History, 5708 Years. Wherein is contained the Motions, Aspects, and Operations of the Planets; with Observations on the Eclipses and Solar Ingresses; with other remarkable Passages, as the Moon's Southing, Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, and Monthly Observations, in a Poetical Manner, the like not extant, &c. Calculated according to Art, and referred to the Meridian of the Middle of Great Britain, fitting the whole Monarchy without sensible Error. The forty-third impression. By Salem Pearse, Student in Physick and the Coelestial Sciences.

People / Organizations

• Salem Pearse (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by J. Bettenham, for the Company of Stationers, [1761]

Publication year

1761-1761

ESTC No.

T55857

Grub Street ID

282428

Description

[48]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Titlepage and main text in red and black.

With a separate titlepage, bearing the imprint of Robert Brown, to the second part.

With a slip pasted to the titlepage beginning: 'The almanacks for 1761. being all printed before the demise of his late majesty ..'.

Price from imprint: Price Nine-Pence stitched.