Meteorological observations and records of weights and heights of members of the Barker, Whiston and Dawes families found in four almanacs
almanacs comprise: Parker’s Ephemeris... 1736; The British Telescope... 1736; Ladies Diary or, the Woman’s Almanack... Adapted for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex..., 1736; Richard Saunders. Apollo Anglicanus... 1736, Samuel Barker’s copy, manuscript notes on meteorological observations, astronomical observations and notes on heights and weights of members of the Barker, Whiston and Dawes families and other various notes, 42pp., including 17pp. autograph manuscript meteorological notes mostly in the hand of Samuel Barker and signed four times: “S. Barker” on titles of each almanac, and 25pp. in another hand (mostly heights and weights), by ?another member of the Barker family, some pp. excised, slightly browned, twentieth century ink signature of “Lucie Walter 1930” on front pastedown, original panelled calf, inscribed on upper cover: “1736 E”, corners bumped, joints splitting, housed in a modern box, 8vo
Meteorological observations and records of weights and heights of members of the Barker, Whiston and Dawes families found in four almanacs
almanacs comprise: Parker’s Ephemeris... 1736; The British Telescope... 1736; Ladies Diary or, the Woman’s Almanack... Adapted for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex..., 1736; Richard Saunders. Apollo Anglicanus... 1736, Samuel Barker’s copy, manuscript notes on meteorological observations, astronomical observations and notes on heights and weights of members of the Barker, Whiston and Dawes families and other various notes, 42pp., including 17pp. autograph manuscript meteorological notes mostly in the hand of Samuel Barker and signed four times: “S. Barker” on titles of each almanac, and 25pp. in another hand (mostly heights and weights), by ?another member of the Barker family, some pp. excised, slightly browned, twentieth century ink signature of “Lucie Walter 1930” on front pastedown, original panelled calf, inscribed on upper cover: “1736 E”, corners bumped, joints splitting, housed in a modern box, 8vo
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