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17882688vFrance 1788. 24mo binding size 97 x 65 mm. 64 pp. Apparently lacking title replaced by the engraved title of a different almanac 2 foldout engraved mapsheets at front and back containing 7 different maps. Corner of fol. B1 torn away. Contemporary ivory silk over pasteboards covers embroidered alike with a frame of couched green thread enclosing repeated small purl bows or leaf motifs at center an oval cartouche composed of a band of silver metallic thread edged in green silk thread enclosing two birds nuzzling on a green branch the birds composed entirely of purl the cartouches "tied" at the top with a triple bow each loop composed of bronze-colored purl filled with silver metallic purl tied with a ribbon of pink silk embroidered thread and small sequins the covers edged with needle-looped metallic lace backstrip with zig-zag pattern of purl lacking a few pieces yellow silk liners free endpapers of copper-glazed paper. Provenance: Carlo de Poortere bookplate. An odd little almanac binding probably the work of an amateur on an unidentified almanac with geographic content whose missing title was replaced by the engraved title of an unrelated almanach galant Le Trottoir du Permesse ou le Rimeur fantastique Paris: Jubert 1788. The maps show the world in two hemispheres France and the continents Europe Asia Africa and North and South America. hardcover 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
1880102067Square 8vo 6 3/4" x 8 1/2" original printed wrappers covers illustrated some other illustrations also included. Some fading and to front cover a little soiling here and there a couple of minor chips tears and folds at extremities or margins browning and aging; otherwise very good. The front wrapper indicates this is the 56th volume of this almanac which include more astrological material than your average almanac. This edition includes a short story about hostilities between two tribes of Indians. A calendar for 1881 is on the back cover. John Baer's Sons, books
1881102068Square 8vo 6 3/4" x 8 1/2" original printed wrappers covers illustrated some other illustrations also included. Some fading and to front cover a little soiling here and there a couple of minor chips at extremities or margins browning and aging; otherwise very good. The front wrapper indicates this is the 57th volume of this almanac which include more astrological material than your average almanac. This edition includes a short story about the American Revolution. A calendar for 1882 is on the back cover. John Baer's Sons, books
1887102069Square 8vo 6 3/4" x 8 1/2" original printed wrappers covers illustrated some other illustrations also included. A little soiling here and there a couple of minor chips at extremities or margins browning and aging; otherwise very good. The front wrapper indicates this is the 63rd volume of this almanac which include more astrological material than your average almanac. This edition includes a short story about the dogs of the St. Bernard's Hospice. John Baer's Sons, books
1890102070Square 8vo 6 3/4" x 8 1/2" original printed wrappers covers illustrated some other illustrations also included. Slight fading a little soiling here and there some minor chips at extremities corners or margins browning and aging; otherwise very good. The front wrapper indicates this is the 66th volume of this almanac which include more astrological material than your average almanac. This edition includes a short story on the American Revolution. John Baer's Sons, books
1827102071Square 8vo 6 3/4" x 8 1/2" original printed wrappers covers illustrated some other illustrations also included. Slight fading a little soiling here and there some minor chips and folds at extremities corners or margins browning and aging; otherwise very good. The front wrapper indicates this is the 103rd volume of this almanac which include more astrological material than your average almanac. This edition includes the tradition short story that is characteristic of these almanacs. Lancaster, PA.: books
188719015Lancaster PA: John Baer's Sons 1887. 36pp unpaginated. Stitched. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper decorated with black and white illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Scattered foxing and margin wear. Good. With a story on 'The Dogs of St. Bernard's Hospice.'. John Baer's Sons unknown books
189919016Lancaster PA: John Baer's Sons 1899. 36pp unpaginated. Stitched. Original printed pictorial wrappers detached margin-chipped. Light uniform tanning scattered foxing. Blank corners of two leaves chipped. Good. With an article on the "New Battleship Maine As She Will Appear When Completed" with illustration. John Baer's Sons unknown books
189419014Lancaster PA: John Baer's Sons 1894. 36pp unpaginated. Stitched. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper decorated with black and white illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Light uniform tanning minor foxing. Minor chipping of some corners. Good. With a Remington illustration in black & white 'Old Smoke' accompanying an excerpt from Parkman's Oregon Trail. John Baer's Sons 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
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
18656226Paris: Pagnerre Libraire-Editeur rue de Seine 18; Typographie de Henri Plon 1865. Duodecimo 14.5 x 10.5 cm. 200 pages. Engraved illustrations in the text. Table des Matieres. The eighth year of this popular French almanac with calendar and ephemeris but unlike most American "culinary almanacs" the bulk of this work is indeed related to food with sections on various foodstuffs vegetables birds fish sauces etc. and many recipes. The attractive wrapper illustration by "F. Grenan" depicts two women working in the kitchen one cooking at the stove the other writing while handling some vegetables and birds. Is she recording a recipe or perhaps just back from market and keeping up accounts Like other copies of this almanac we've seen the illustration is hand-colored. Dog ears to some pages; otherwise internally sound and clean. Wrapper corners chipped and light soiling. Near very good in a handsome custom-made clamshell box. OCLC locates five institutions with single issues of runs of this periodical. Pagnerre, Libraire-Editeur, rue de Seine, 18; Typographie de Henri Plon 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
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
1763319585Boston: Printed and Sold by R. and S.Draper ; Edes & Gill and Green & Russell in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. i.e. Printed by Timothy Green Sold also by the booksellers 1763. 24pp. Stitched. 24pp. The preface by Ames includes a notice lauding the discoveries in electricity by Benjamin Franklin: "But since such surprizing sic discoveries have been made in Electricity by our COuntryman yea by our Bostonian the Honourable Benjamin Franklin Esq.; 'tis allowed that certain Bodies are able to defend against the Effects of Thunder and Lightning; and that very Doctrine so lately despised is now admired and the worthy Author of those New Discoveries justly had in the greatest Honor by all the polite & enlightened Nations of Europe . may the American Bards upon the Glassicord chant forth hi Honor for Generations to come."<br/><br/>The final leaf includes an advertisement for paper rags for a new papermill in Milton MA. Evans 9321; ESTC W22465 ; Drake M. Almanacs 3139 Printed and Sold by R. and S.Draper ; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Cro unknown books
184037606Boston: S.N. Dickinson 1840. Folio printed broadside 11-1/4" x 18-1/4." Printed in two columns: the left column prints the communication from S.N. Dickinson publisher of the Boston Almanac; the right column prints information about town officers post offices travel banks lawyers public houses physicians churches and other data; seeks confirmation of its accuracy and any additions. Old folds and light foxing Very Good.<br/><br/> Samuel Nelson Dickinson the Almanac's publisher writes "The object of this communication is the future improvement of the BOSTON ALMANAC." The Almanac though deserving "the highest praise" seeks to do even better. Hence to assure accuracy of information he has sent this rare broadside inquiry to representatives of the Massachusetts towns. He asks them to "fill up all the blanks and return the document to the subscriber." <br/>Not located on OCLC or the AAS web site as of May 2021. S.N. Dickinson unknown books
187514447Philadelphia: Lutheran Bookstore. Very Good. 1875. Softcover. Some soil and fading pages 44 else G . Lutheran Bookstore paperback books
1772260710London: Various 1772. First. hardcover. very good. Rubricated text throughout. Illustrated with many charts and some woodcut diagrams. Thick 12mo contemporary red calf gilt leather label a.e.g. London: various publishers for The Company of Stationers 1772. First editions. An interesting collection in a very good attractive period binding<br/><br/> Titles include: Remarkable News from the Stars; The Gentleman's Diary & Mathematical Repository; The Ladies' Diary; Vox Stellarum; Merlinus Liberatus; Parker's Ephemeris; The Coelestial Diary; Poor Robin; The English Apollo; Speculum Anni; Olympia Domata; The Coelestial Atlas. Various printers.<br/><br/> Various 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
17954083Amsterdam: M. Schalekamp 1795. 36mo binding size 97 x 62 mm. 71 1 pp. Title and text within type-ornament borders. Four double-page engraved plates two signed by W. J. Strunck. Contemporary embroidered binding of beige silk over binder's board both covers with an outer wavy border of gold satin stitch enclosing a gouache and watercolor medallion under glass each cover with a different scene within an oval relief frame of goldwork red thread and satin stitch the medallion suspended from a ring hanging from a ribbon and flanked with sprigs the design composed of couched and separate colored and gold pailletes silver-gilt thread purl and goldwork spine plain with two silver-gilt rectangles pale orange silk liners preserving original wrappers of orange block-printed patterned paper with sprigs and dots gilt edges. Loss of 5 sequins on upper cover and 3 on lower cover. Provenance: Robert de Beauvillain bookplate.A literary almanac in a possibly Netherlandish embroidered binding with watercolor miniatures. The painting on the front cover shows a young man wearing a tricorne standing jauntily in a mountainous landscape and that on the rear cover two shepherds at dusk. This "Poetic Almanac or choice of Heroic epistles Tales Theatrical and other Poetic Pieces" was published in Amsterdam and sometimes also sold in Utrecht from 1771 to the late 1790s. The almanac includes a 12-page tabular calendar with Saints'days moon phases and eclipses a schedule of the ringing of the Amsterdam city bells and tales and poems some adapted from classical mythology. The romantic double-page engravings by Strunck show Mirtil and Chloe Daphne's children Hero and Leander in a dramatic scene of roiling seas and lightning a pastoral love scene and a woman in a dungeon with snakes illustrating the final poem "Elane Romance." OCLC locates a single copy of a different year in the US at the Grolier Club; that copy of the 1781 issue is also in an embroidered binding with a floral design and no miniatures. On Strunck cf. Thieme-Becker 32:217. M. Schalekamp unknown books
17852689vParis: N. Crapart & C.J.C. Durand 1785. 32mo 92 x 58 mm. Collation: 1-68 nested quires. 48 leaves. Folding woodcut maps of France écclesiastique at front and Environs de Paris at back printed on one sheet enclosing text. Contemporary gold-blocked green morocco reddish-gold Brokatpapier pastedown endpapers gilt edges very minor wear to corners. Provenance: Carlos de Poortere bookplate. A very good copy of a classic Paris almanac. The Etrennes mignonnes may have been the most long-running of all Parisian almanacs and one of the most stable in format and contents. With occasional variations in the title this almanac appeared yearly from 1724 to 1848 spanning five generations and weathering several very different governments and social regimes. After 1750 the engraved title was dispensed with and the quality of printing may have declined somewhat but the contents remained consistently serious containing historical geopolitical and political information about various French regions and other countries charts of royalty and nobility densely printed summaries of news from the previous year descriptions of recent scientific inventions guides to measurements tariffs lists of trade fairs and so on. Grand-Carteret 107. On the contents and economics of the Etrennes mignonnes and their imitators see V. Sarrazin "L'exemple des Etrennes parisiennes: succès évolution et mutation d'un genre d'almanachs du XVIIIe au XIXe siècle" in Lüsebrink ed. Les lectures du peuple en Europe et dans les Amériques du XVIIe au XXe siècle 2003: 39-48. N. Crapart & C.J.C. Durand unknown books
17472689lParis: Durand 1747. 24mo binding size 96 x 66 mm.Collation: A-D8 E6 nested quires. 76 pp. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title. Publisher's woodcut gryphon device on letterpress title engraved two-page map of France at end. Publisher's gold-blocked olive morocco abstract design Dutch-gilt endpapers gilt edges. A fresh copy of the long-running Paris almanac known as the Etrennes Mignonnes published with changing subtitles from 1716 to ca. 1845. The engraved title and frontispiece varied from year to year up to 1750 after which none were used and the map alternated between an ecclesiastical civil or military map of France or a map of the Paris region. In this edition the frontispiece and title are loosely based on those used in the 1741 edition by Cochin II. Cf. Grand-Carteret 107. Durand unknown books
17422866Paris: de la boutique de M. Jouenne chez Durand rue S. Jacques à S. Landry et au Grison 1742. 32mo binding size 99 x 57 mm. 64 pp. Engraved frontispiece additional engraved title double-page engraved map of France at end. Contemporary emblematic binding of gold-blocked brown goatskin both covers with a panel stamp incorporating at center a scythe and hourglass framed in curving lines drawer-handle ornaments leaf plants monkeys flitting birds garlands and sprigs; pink satin liners gilt edges small chip to head of spine corners scuffed. Provenance: later 18th-century marginal note "Ma naissance" next to the date 12 August on calendar page for August; late 18th-century inscription at front identifying the note as that of the writer's mother born 12 August 1743 and stating that she kept this little book her entire life. A long-running Paris almanac in a contemporary binding with a pleasingly asymmetrical rococo decor mixing chinoiserie elements monkeys and Western memento mori motifs.The Etrennes mignonnes were published with changing subtitles from 1716 to ca. 1845. The engraved title and frontispiece varied from year to year up to 1750 after which none were used and the map alternated between an ecclesiastical civil or military map of France or a map of the Paris region. This issue has a special frontispiece showing the audience given by the King to the Ottoman Emperor in January 1742. Grand-Carteret 107; cf. Cohen-de Ricci 51. de la boutique de M. Jouenne chez Durand rue S. Jacques à S. Landry et au Grison 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
