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1764319586Boston: R. and S. Draper et. al. 1764. 24pp. 8vo. Stitched. 24pp. 8vo. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames 1708-1764 and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record v. 16 1862 p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames whose "Elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames" is also included in the almanac p. 21-22. The Massachusetts gazette advertisement states "The late Dr. Nathaniel Ames had finished his calculations for this almanac and prepared a copy thereof before his death excepting the eclipses which together with the additional part has since been completed by his son." Evans 9570; Drake Almanacs of the United States 3142; ESTC W22470 R. and S. Draper [et. al.] unknown books
2313Boston in New-England: Printed by J. Draper for the Booksellers 1749. . 8vo self wrappers soiled edges of leaves frayed and lacking small portions closed tear in final leaf text not affected modern stitching Evans 6276. Four holdings in OCLC AAS Harvard Yale and Huntington. Boston, in New-England: Printed by J. Draper, for the Booksellers, [1749]. unknown books
17896474Paris: Chez líAuteur 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 137 x78mm. xiii 16pp. Calendar 288pp. original final blank. Engraved frontispiece by ìC. S. Gaucher 1788.î Near contemporary full mottled calf marbled endpapers edges gilt; margins shaved close affecting some pagination p.24 with light impression of p. 1 p.27 with deckled edge; spine headcap chipped joints tender extremities lightly rubbed. An ephemeris plural: ephemerides; from the Greek word ἐφήμερος ephemeros ìdailyî is a table of values that gives the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times. Different kinds of ephemerides are used for astronomy and astrology. Even though this was also one of the first applications of mechanical computers an ephemeris will still often be a simple printed table. Contents in this copy include a Calendar with gold numbers a Sun cycle and Age of the Moon and dates for important liturgical holidays among them Ash Wednesday Easter and Pentecost. The majority of text is romance lyrics with 27 pages of music dedicated to particular men at the end. <br/><br/> Paris: Chez líAuteur hardcover books
653448vo. 5 total pages approximately 175 words. Newcomb born in Nova Scotia studied at Harvard and began work at the Naval Observatory in 1861 publishing studies of planetary orbits the motions of the moon and other subjects during his service there see a long entry in DAB. Abbot 1831-1927 graduated second in the West Point class of 1854 commanded artillery at a high level during the Civil War and spent most of his later service directing the army's advance school of engineering at Willet's Point ending his career on the Panama Canal project 1897-1915. Folded for mailing. Very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
32751NY: Keynote Recordings. Sound recording 78 rpm. Three records. Records seem in very good condition album cover worn. Songs are: All I want The union train Get thee behind me Talking union The union man Which side are you on Dedicated to the memory of Joe Hill. Keynote Recordings unknown books
1759WRCLIT82090Paris: Le Veuve Bordelet . et al 1759. 24mo. Dark reddish brown morocco a.e.g. spine gilt extra side panels with double rule borders topped with dot-filled looped ornate crescents with small birds alternating with poppy pods pale red endsheets with gilt floral decorations. Lower fore-tips heavily worn internal joints cracked occasional cracking at gutters between signatures some foxing front blank trimmed at top edge 1803 ownership signature still a near good copy. First edition of this compilation of all sorts of military information published for the use of the gentleman soldier. OCLC locates only two copies: the Abbey copy at the BN and a copy in the library of the Society of the Cincinnati. However that implies a degree of scarcity that experience does not support. OCLC: 39277312 & 1034788984. Le Veuve Bordelet ... [et al] unknown books
1817LLV2648Paris & Lyon:: Chez L. Saint Michel & Chez Ayne Freres 1817. 1817. 9.7 cm 32mo. 112 pp. 2 folding engraved plates. Original decorative pink paper wrappers with an elaborate gilt-stamped pattern; rubbed darkened. Very good. With 2 engraved folding plates showing France and Europe: 1 "Planetaire" "Mappe-Monde" "Europe" "La France" 2 "Listes de MM. les Membres de la Chambre des Deputes session de 1816" "Division de la France." Contents: Eopques pour 1817; Fetes Mobiles; Hotels des Monnaies; Calendrier; Tableau des plus grandes Marees de 1817; Heures de la Mer dans quelques Ports; Table de l’intervalle de temps dont la haute Mer; Valeur des Piastres en Francs et Centimes etc. Chez L. Saint Michel, & Chez Ayne, Freres, 1817. unknown books
1864203665Philadelphia: George W. Childs 1864. First. hardcover. very good-. 641pp. 12mo original black cloth ex libris spine ends worn and repaired. Philadelphia: George W. Childs 1864. First Edition.<br/><br/> Contains many political and economic statistics on the United States and each free state and territory. None of the Confederate states are included. At the end are several pages of publisher's ads and ads from Philadelphia merchants.<br/><br/> George W. Childs unknown books
182344609Cincinnati OH: Oliver Farnsworth & Co 1823. 12mo.; 24 leaves. Illustrated. Disbound pamphlet; some foxing. First edition. Drake 9078. <br/><br/> Oliver Farnsworth & Co unknown books
185927877Boston: Shepard Clark & Brown; New York: Rudd and Carleton; Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson etc. 1859 1859. First edition. OCLC records six copies. Edges slightly rubbed; very good copy. 12mo original gilt-decorated blue cloth gilt lettering a.e.g. Pictorial title-page and eight full-page illustrations; numerous advertisements for the publishers and others on the endpapers. The sixth in the series of The Lady's Almanac. This one contains a poem "A Household Baby" by Sara Jane Lippincott under the pseudonym Grace Greenwood." <br/><br/> Boston: Shepard, Clark, & Brown; New York: Rudd and Carleton; Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, etc., [1859] unknown books
185727876Boston: Damrell & Moore & G. Coolidge. Published by Crosby Nichols & Co. 1857 1857. First edition. OCLC records six copies. Cloth a little rubbed; very good copy. 12mo original gilt-decorated blue cloth gilt lettering a.e.g. Pictorial title-page and six full-page illustrations; numerous advertisements for local Boston businesses. Damrell & Moore sometimes in collaboration with John P. Jewett and Crosby Nichols and others began its attractive series of small almanacs in 1854. Though unsigned except for initials many of the contributions are presumed to be by women and almost all are about them. <br/><br/> Boston: Damrell & Moore & G. Coolidge. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., [1857] hardcover books
183426879New York: Sold by D. Felt & Co. Boston: Published by Charles Ellms Agent 1834. 47 1 pp profusely illustrated. Illustrated title page captioned 'Dangerous Attempt to Destroy a Hawk's Nest.' Last page a full-page woodcut captioned 'The Dead Elephant--- A Scene in India.' Disbound glue remnant along inside margin of title page. Light scattered foxing lightly worn. Good to Good. <br/><br/> An attractive almanac with many full-page and in-text woodcuts and accompanying explanatory text. It includes 'An Account of Nahant' with an illustration of the Indian 'Black William Selling Nahant to Mr. Thomas Dexter for a suit of clothes in 1630.' A double-page woodcut is printed of a 'Disastrous Attempt to Ascend Mount Blanc.' Other illustrations with text are offered from all over the world: a 'View of a Chinese Floating Town' a 'Newfoundland Dog' a 'Cashmere Goat' and much else. <br/>Drake 4088 1- MWA. AI 26202 4. Sold by D. Felt & Co. Boston: Published by Charles Ellms, Agent unknown books
18836734New York: Published by the Centaur Co. 182 Fulton Street opposite St. Pauls Church-yard 1883. Stapled in wrappers 20.5 x 15 cm. 31 1 pages. Illustrated maps. Title and publication information from wrapper. A "great combination" almanac with ephemerides maps and culinary recipes all for the New York patent medicine firm Centaur makers of Castoria and Centaur Linament. Includes both culinary and medicinal recipes and short stories and vignettes. In publisher's red black and yellow decorated wrappers illustrated with an image of "The Diver" which adorns many of the Centaur publications. OCLC records ten copies; not in O'Neal. Published by the Centaur Co., 182 Fulton Street, opposite St. Pauls Church-yard unknown books
178327240A Paris: Chez Delalain 1783. First edition. Full calf gilt rules all edges gilt. Spine chipped including part of label boards worn and chipped front board nearly detached but still holding scattered foxing; overall about good. 8 332 pp. 12mo. Almanach de Muses ran from 1765 to 1833. This issue is one of three that contains poems on Ballooning all the rage in Europe at the time especially with the Montgolfier brothers' 1783 demonstrations of hot-air-balloon flying in Annonay France. This isssue includes a satiric poem advising Blanchard not to fly p. 43-48. Blanchard being Jean Pierre Blanchard who on January 7 1785 with Dr. John Jeffries an American physician made the first flight over the English Channel traveling from Dover England to Calais France. Chez Delalain hardcover books
180826821Boston: Published by John West & Co. and Manning & Loring 1808. 1st thus American Imprints 15557; Drake 3707. Original grey paper wrappers. Overall Abt VG - VG some wear to extremities/rear wrapper beginning to detach/period pos. 215 pp including Index. 12mo signed in 6s. 5-5/8" x 3-3/8" <br/><br/> Published by John West & Co. and Manning & Loring unknown books
184819017Reading PA: Von Carl Friederich Egelmann 1848. 32pp. Stitched. Original printed wrappers margin-chipped dustsoiled. Front wrapper with black and white illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Light uniform tanning scattered foxing. Some chipping and wear to edges. Pencil and ink markings in margins throughout text. Good. Printed in German Fraktur the Almanac contains one of the earliest articles printed in America with illustration of a bull fight. Drake 12681. Von Carl Friederich Egelmann unknown books
183215878Boston: Published by Gray & Bowen 1832. 1st edition American Imprints 10888. Contemporary red half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. VG joints starting/extremity wear/bookseller label for Issac N. Whiting Columbus Ohio. xii 312 12 pp. Adverts comprise the last 12 pp. 12mo in 6s. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by Gray & Bowen hardcover books
18986798Posner: Kiadasn 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. miniature. Notations throughout front joint split else bright and tight. Full red leather boards gilt lettering photographic frontispiece aeg. 49x36mm. 58pp. Illus. b/w plate. <br/><br/>Printed in red and black ink. Notations throughout. Scarce generally photographic frontis seldome found. Kiadasn hardcover books
1827102065Pamphlet 12mo 4" x 6 /14" original printed wrappers stitched. Very browned and partially disbound a little insect damage mostly to margins of a few pages some staining and soiling usual chips and folds at extremities faint signature on title; still a respectable copy. While this almanac contains the usual horoscope material this one has a full page for each sign including a small wood engraved illustration of the symbol. Also includes a couple of pages of ads and a list of county officers for the state of New York. William Williams, books
1907301196Pittsburgh PA the Hostetter Company 1907. 1907. 8vo 5 1/8" x 7 7/8". 8 b/w illustrations from drawings 12 headpiece drawing for each month of the year. Original stiff gray covers stamped in black. Very good some soiling to front cover. 36 pages covers. No signatures or bookplates. Hostetter's Business Calendar for 1907 on the back cover. Advertising for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters on page 1 with reference to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters on each of the 12 months. Also listing the phases of the moon and historical references to the zodiac. The back cover with an advertisement for Kirk Geary & Co. Sacraments California. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Pittsburgh, PA, the Hostetter Company, 1907. paperback books
1814JC17705London: The Company of Stationers 1814. Paperback. Good. In modern brown wraps. 48 pp. <br/><br/> The Company of Stationers paperback books
18875922Buffalo N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association 1887. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo N.Y. 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880 by the World's Dispensary Medical Association in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet 15 x 9 cm. 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. Later issue with the first published in 1880 and carrying a calendar for 1881. A promotional almanac calendar and recipe book for the World Dispensary Medical Association manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines. This issue includes calendar pages for 1887 and lined pages for memoranda and these have been used with typical household notes. The calendar pages are interleaved with recipes testimonials text and advertisements for various of Dr. Pierce's medicines and supplies and other advertisements. The series appears to have continued at least through 1914. Some light soiling and edge tears some pages and to illustrated wrappers otherwise near very good. OCLC locates two copies of this 1887 issue. World's Dispensary Medical Association unknown books
189819013Lancaster PA: John Baer's Sons 1898. 36pp unpaginated. Stitched. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper decorated with black and white illustration. Illustrations throughout text. Light uniform tanning minor wear. Good or so. With two pages on the Klondike gold rush. John Baer's Sons unknown books
186929633Philadelphia: Miller & Elder 1869. 33 1 pp numerous woodcut illustrations. Title page illustrations stitched spine reinforced with paper and archival tapes. Title page has tear to top outer corner loss of a few letters of title and of several lines of text on verso. Light wear Good.<br/><br/> Includes astronomical data humorous stories and anecdotes poetry and a schedule of sittings of the Pennsylvania courts. A few examples of the humor include: Negro Testimony The Darkies and the Goose The Frontier Wedding and The Family That Couldn't Spell Turnip. Miller & Elder unknown books
1910297397Vienna: Judischer 1910. hardcover. very good. Herausgegeben aus Anlass des 25-Semestrigen Jubilaums von der Vereinigung Judischer Hochschuller aus Galizien Bar-Kochba in Wein. 215 pages with text in German. Small 4to pictorial cloth spine ends neatly repaired. Wein: Judischer Verlag 1910. Very good.<br/><br/> Judischer unknown books
