A Concordancy of Yeares. Containing a New Easie, and Most Exact Computation of Time, According to the English Account. Also the Use of the English and Roman Kalendar, with Briefe Notes, Rules, and Tables, as Well Mathematicall and Legal, as Vulgar, For Each Private Mans Occasion. Newly Composed, Digested and Orgmented by Arthur Hopton. Nicholas Okes for Thomas Adams, 1615.
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The second edition, enlarged following the 1612 first, of this popular work on astronomy and astrology as well as other utilitarian topics, including distances and routes between locations, lists of living nobility as of the year 1611, agricultural advice, among many other topics. However, its principal content is astrological and astronomical, with large sections devoted to the Zodiac, Star Signs, etc, and other interesting sections discussing Tycho Brahe's calculations on the solar system, calculations for the sizes and distances of planets, etc. The very attractive woodcuts are of particular note which are very rarely encountered in English books of this genre, this early.
"It contains instructions and tables for astrological calculations, finding the time by either the position of the sun or the moon, determining dates of movable Christian feasts, etc. The calendar section is followed by shorter sections on financial advice, tables of historical information and legal matters." (Tomash & Williams, H163)
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Size: 107 x 161 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), A2-A8, B-Q8, R7, (1)].
Lacks the initial and final blanks (as often), else collates as complete. Contemporary full limp vellum, title written in a contemporary hand to the spine, also with a later tooled label affixed to the top with loss. Binding a little rubbed with some discolouration. Both boards securely attached. Later pastedowns and endpapers. No ownership inscriptions, bookplates, or marginalia. Many leaves throughout with paper repairs to edges, generally without text loss. Mildly toned throughout the text block. Some minor stains in places, but generally reasonably clean throughout.
[STC 13779].
