Apollo Anglicanus, English Apollo, and Saunder. 1687. The second part
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 8 of 12 titles bound together., "Saunder. 1687. The second part" (caption title) has separate register., Signatures: A-B⁸ ²A⁸., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Contains advertisements.
46 plates (some tab mounted and folded) : incl. tables, maps, diagrams., Autograph of Samuel Plowman[?], Blank pages counted but not scanned., Bound as a commonplace book with blank pages interspersed. Numerous notes in pencil and ink ., and Imperfect?: all editions listed in pre-1956 NUC and the BM cat. include text as well as plates.
Publisher:
And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 5 of 12 titles bound together., The portion of the title "the creation of the world, 5636 ... the death of K. Charles II, 2" is enclosed within brackets., Signatures: A-C⁸., and Annual almanac which ran 1657-1715; 6 lines of verse precede most of the monthly tables; advertisements: C6 and C8 versos.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Horton for the Company of Stationers
Calendarium astrologicum and Almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 10 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Griffin for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Markets, Astrology, Ephemerides, and Almanacs, English
Andrew Ross (1773-1812), Army officer who suppressed the 1802 mutiny of several regiments at Gibraltar; probably appointed Governor of Essequibo and Demerara in 1807 or 1808. He retired to Madeira for his health in 1809, but returned to service in the Peninsular War and died at the siege of Carthagena on September 26, 1812.
Subject (Geographic):
Demerara--History, Essequibo--History, Great Britain--Colonies--Administration, and Guyana--History
Autograph diary containing brief entries for most days of the year 1790. Subjects include Ford's daily activities; the weather; travel to and from Bridgetown; church services; social events with other planters; the arrival and departure of the packet boats from England; and purchases and other financial transactions.
Description:
Annotations on blank leaves in the printed almanac section of the volume concern weather; social appointments; and ship arrivals and departures., Bound with and inscribed in Perch's pocket almanac, calculated by Mr. Thomas Donohue....Barbados: Printed by Tho. Wtt. Perch, MDCCXC [1790]., Entries made from both front and back of volume., Purchased from Ken Spelman, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., and Sir Francis Ford (1758-1801) was the only son of the Barbados planter Francis Ford of Lears (1717-1772). He was educated at Lincoln's Inn and St. John's College, Cambridge, and married Mary Anson, daughter of George Anson (1731-1789) in 1785.. Created baronet in 1793, Ford was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1793-1796. He died in Barbados in 1801 and left his estate to his son, Francis Ford (1787-1839).
