Dove. Speculum anni à partu Virginis MDCXLVI, or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1666 : being the second after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, according to the best account, 5670 : calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge, where the pole is elevated 52 degr. and 17 min., but may indifferently serve for any other place within this nation.
1666
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Title
Dove. Speculum anni à partu Virginis MDCXLVI, or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1666 : being the second after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, according to the best account, 5670 : calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge, where the pole is elevated 52 degr. and 17 min., but may indifferently serve for any other place within this nation.
Running title
Dove 1666
Created/published
[Cambridge, England] : Printed by John Field, printer to the University, 1666 [i.e. 1665]
Description
[48] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Dove, Jonathan, author.
Field, John, -1668, printer.
Galer, Allan Maxcey, 1868-1938, former owner.
Cambridge University Press, bookseller, publisher.
Field, John, -1668, printer.
Galer, Allan Maxcey, 1868-1938, former owner.
Cambridge University Press, bookseller, publisher.
Note
Almanacs were published the year preceding date of calculation.
Signatures: A-C⁸.
Gatherings A-B printed in red and black.
Signatures: A-C⁸.
Gatherings A-B printed in red and black.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, R22920
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), A1612
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), A1612
Genre/form
Almanacs.
Ephemerides.
Sammelbands.
Ephemerides.
Sammelbands.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
Item Details
Call number
269- 460q item 10
Folger-specific note
Bookplate: Allan Maxcey Galer, Dulwich, Inner Temple. Bound tenth in a sammelband of 11 almanacs for 1666. Pencilled number '10' by Folger staff. In early leather (calf) inboard binding with gold stamps and red leather spine label "Cambridge almanack, 1666"; rebacked with remnants of earlier spine; red-speckled edges. Acquired from W.S. Cotter Rare Books, 2015-12-22. Purchase made possible by The Charles W. Engelhard Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
269460.10