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1.
Lunarium : ab anno 1491 ad annum 1550

Creator:
Granollachs, Bernat de, 1421-ca. 1487
Published / Created:
1491.
Image Count:
80
Description:
Signatures: a6, b-c8, d6, e4., Klebs number assigned from manuscript note in his personal copy of Incunabula Scientifica, 1938, at Yale Med., and Med: Modern French binding by Lortic. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Publisher:
s. n.
Subject (Geographic):
Moon.
Subject (Topic):
Calendars and Almanacs
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Lunarium : ab anno 1491 ad annum 1550

2.
The perpetual almanack, or, Gentleman soldier's prayer book : shewing how one Richard Middleton was

Published / Created:
[1837 or 1838]
Call Number:
File 68 837 P453+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Gentleman soldier's prayer book
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The perpetual almanack, or, Gentleman soldier's prayer book : shewing how one Richard Middleton was taken before the Mayor of the City he was in, for using cards in church during Divine Service : being a droll, merry, and humurous account of an odd affair that happened to a private soldier, in the 60th Regiment of Foot

3.
Useful knowledge for the million : a miscellany of valuable information

Published / Created:
August 27th, 1884.
Call Number:
1978 +S3 1
Image Count:
16
Alternative Title:
Miscellany of valuable information
Description:
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 22 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., and Text in three columns.
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton, publisher, 3 Park Place, New York
Subject (Topic):
Curiosities and wonders and Almanacs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Useful knowledge for the million : a miscellany of valuable information