Guide to English Almanacs
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Guide to English Almanacs, 1772
Collection number: Mss 261
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Mar. 2, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: English Almanacs
Dates: 1772
Collection number: Mss 261
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains twelve printed English almanacs, all dated 1772, bound together in one volume.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
English Almanacs. Mss 261. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains twelve printed English almanacs, all dated 1772, bound together in one volume. Included are
Remarkable News from the Stars: Or, an Ephemeris for 1772 (by William Andrews);
The Gentleman's Diary;
The Ladies Diary: Or Woman's Almanack;
Vox Stellarum: Or A Loyal Almanack;
Merlinus Liberatus (by John Partridge);
Parker's Ephemeris;
The Celestial Diary (by Salem Pearse);
Poor Robin;
The English Apollo (by Richard Saunders);
Speculum Anni (by Henry Season);
... an Almanack ... (by Tycho Wing); and
The Celestial Atlas (by Robert White).
There is no container list for this collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Almanacs, English.