Merlinus Anglicus junior, or, The starry messenger, for the year of our redemption, 1757
Subtitle: being the first after bissextile, or leap year : wherein is contained, I. Astronomical, astrological, and meteorological observations. II. The state of the year deduced according to art, from solar ingresses, eclipses, various configurations, aspects and conjunctions of the seven planets. III. The rising , southing, and setting of the moon, and high-water at London-Bridge. IV. Tables of the rising, southing, and setting of the seven stars, and other fixed stars of note ...
By: by Henry Coley ...
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed by R. Reily, for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1757
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Starry messenger, for the year of our redemption, 1757
Notes: Henry Coley's name continued to be used on the t.p. for this series of almanacs long after his death.

Signatures: A-C⁸.

Title-page printed in red and black, within a double rule; most tables printed in red and black.

"Books lately published for John Ward, in Cornhill ...," p. [48]

ESTC T16991

A few contemporary ms. notes and fists; contemporary inscription on front fly-leaf: Olive [J?] King August 8. 1757 on board the Royal Ann at Spithead; additional inscription, in the same hand: Monday 18 August 1747; ms. table of contents for the volume on back fly-leaf, in the same hand; red "two pence" tax stamp on t.p.

No. 2 in a volume containing 14 English almanacs for 1757.

Bound in contemporary dark brown calf, with spine and covers gilt; "1757" in gilt on spine.