1755 1st Edtn/1st Prnt 1751-55 MATHEMATICAL & WOMEN’S ALMANACS By Various Good History

1755 1st Edition 1st Printing, 
1751-55 MATHEMATICAL & WOMEN’S ALMANACS
Ladies’ Diary (1751-55) • Gentleman’s Diary (1753-54) • The Gentleman & Lady’s Palladium (1754) • Gentleman’s Diary (1755, pp.17-48 only)
By Various

Format: Hardcover, duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7+3⁄8 127 × 187),Pages 424
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Company of Stationers; J. Fuller, 1751-55., London

Synopsis: A rich and representative mid–Georgian mathematical commonplace book, unusually including the transitional Simpson–Heath moment and an early Palladium. A compelling primary source for the history of women in STEM, popular science, and the culture of problem-solving before the rise of formal mathematical journals.
A virtually continuous run of popular mid-Georgian mathematical & astronomical almanacs, bound together: five consecutive Ladies’ Diary issues (1751-55), two Gentleman’s Diary issues (1753-54), Heath’s rival Palladium (1754), and a fragment of the Gentleman’s Diary for 1755 (pp.17-48, including final Contributors list; lacking pp.1-16). With named scientific correspondents (Ralph Hulse, Alexander Mann, John Child of Barnet) recording eclipse observations and mathematical solutions. The 1753 Gentleman’s edition marks the “First of the New Style in England”.
Astronomy / eclipse observations (Ladies’ Diary, 1751) – pages headed ECLIPSES record contemporary observers by name, incl.:
• Mr. Ralph Hulse (predicts two eclipses of the Sun in 1751, with times and digits eclipsed).
• Mr. Alexander Mann — observations noted at London (May 20) and Jamaica (Nov. 17).
• Mr. John Child of Barnet, Hertfordshire — reports the Moon’s eclipse observed 28 Dec. 1750, “by a clock exactly set,” with beginning, total darkness, end, and apparent time entered.
Mathematical problems & solutions (all issues). Each annual includes the reader-submitted problems (algebra, geometry, combinatorics), the answers to the foregoing year, and the customary enigmas & rebuses— of interest to historians of popular mathematics and for puzzle collectors.
Calendar reform notice (Gentleman’s Diary, 1753). The title expressly states “The First of the New Style in England,” a desirable talking point linking the volume to the 1752 Gregorian reform.
Editorial handover & rivalry. Your run captures Robert Heath’s final year with the Ladies’ Diary (1753), the takeover by Thomas Simpson (1754–55), and Heath’s rival annual, the Gentleman & Lady’s Palladium (1754). Having both strands in one binding is unusual and of interest for collectors of 18th-century mathematics.
Contributors’ lists (terminal p.48 leaves). The Ladies’ Diary and Gentleman’s Diary 1755 fragment (pp.17–48) include printed lists of contributors.
Early pencil bibliographic notes to front pastedown (“1751–55; 8 Almanacks in 1 vol.”), likely a 19th-/early-20th-century collector or dealer’s hand.
SKU: BTETM0002674
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg