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1774WRCLIT71107Paris: Chez Claude-Jacques-Charles & Pierre-Francois Durand 1774. 108pp. plus two folding maps. 32mo. Contemporary red French morocco heavily decorated in gilt a.e.g. Trivial foxing to endleaves light tanning and minimal fraying to extended edges of folding maps otherwise a fine copy. First edition of this almanac beautifully bound from the Weston Library of the Earls of Bradford with the bookplate. Many of the text leaves are interleaved with elegantly engraved tables with decorative margins for recording profits and losses. Chez Claude-Jacques-Charles & Pierre-Francois Durand unknown books
18116592Gottingen: chez Henri Dieterich 1811. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 134 x 84mm. 172pp. 38pp. Supplement ii Table and advertisement leaf. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece of Antinous and 7 full-page engraved vignettes of seasons; figures in costume and views of countryside four are signed by Hogarth. Later marbled paper covered boards; margins trimmed lightly browned; corners worn. Rare French Edition of the pocket Almanac of Gottingen also known as the Gottingen Taschenkalendar. Well preserved with several fine illustrations depicting fashionable figures many designed after Hogarth. Divided into two parts the first part contains the calendar genealogy of the Royal Houses of Europe and the second part has instructive and entertaining stories with the usual almanac information added at the end including a report of new inventions tables of weights and measures money rates statistics or the population of almost 350 cities. The almanac de Goettingue was one of the best illustrated almanacs of its time it was published in 37 volumes from 1776 until 1813 most of these volumes were printed in German and French editions. Gottingen is an old German city which has medieval roots dating from 1150 and 1200. It has a famous university Georg-August-Universitat which was founded in 1737. The 1811 edition is important for its plates from Stedman's Narrative. The almanacs are collected for their Hogarthian engravings. <br/><br/> chez Henri Dieterich hardcover 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
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
187212243New York 1872. 1 48pp stitched into original printed and decorated title wrappers with several illustrations/ illustrated advertisements. Light tan to wraps light persistent stain else clean and Very Good. A temperance almanac plus an advertisement for the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway. unknown books
188847893Hagerstown: Union Almanac Company 1888. Paperback. Good. 28pp. Publisher's wraps rubbed and edgeworn foxed overall small edge chips to the spine small tears to the first several pages else good. <br/><br/> Union Almanac Company paperback books
188847870Baltimore: The Union Almanac Company 1888. Paperback. Good. 28pp. Publisher's wraps rubbed and edgeworn foxed overall loss at the extremeties tears and edge chips to the spine small pen marking on the front else good. <br/><br/> The Union Almanac Company paperback books
WELLER9781571988522New. New book. unknown books
1782WRCAM28213Providence: Bennett Wheeler 1782. 40pp. 16mo. Self-wrappers stab-stitched. Slight browning. Overall very good. The present edition of the NORTH-AMERICAN CALENDAR. is most notable for its inclusion of the complete Articles of Confederation which had passed into law upon Maryland's agreement to ratify on March 1 1781. Published by Benjamin West noted astronomer and founder of what was to become the NEW ENGLAND ALMANAC produced on Providence's first printing press in 1762. Although most remembered for his astronomical skills and numerous almanacs West also worked fervently to supply the Continental army with clothes and later served on the faculty of Rhode Island College later Brown University. EVANS 17432. DAB XX pp.5-6. Bennett Wheeler hardcover books
184137610Boston: J.A. Collins 1841. Original printed and illustrated green wrappers ink stain along half the front wrapper's blank inner margin with engraving of Lady Liberty surrounded by slaves and freedom-loving white people. Stitched. 36pp. Title page and text illustrations. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> A scarce Almanac also appearing with a publication date of 1840. The Almanac is noteworthy for its excellent content on the Amistad incident including portraits of Cinque and others. <br/> "Things for Abolitionists to Do" recommends working to establish schools for free children of color. Also included are "Hints to Anti-Slavery Debaters;" an "Ecclesiastical Roll of Infamy" listing northern clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church who voted for a resolution prohibiting "colored persons to give testimony against white persons;" and a "Congressional Roll of Infamy" of Northern congressmen who voted for the Gag Rule prohibiting Congress from entertaining petitions to abolish slavery in Washington D.C. As to the presidential campaign the authors say "President Van Buren and General Harrison have both publicly taken the side of the oppressor against the oppressed and the God of the oppressed. Both of them glory in it." <br/>Dumond 83 this imprint. Drake 4222. J.A. Collins unknown books
189314422New London Conn.: Carl Jay Viets. Very Good. 1893. Softcover. Worn Chipped soiled wraps edges rough of text pages 80 else G . Carl Jay Viets paperback 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
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
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
1814JC17705London: The Company of Stationers 1814. Paperback. Good. In modern brown wraps. 48 pp. <br/><br/> The Company of Stationers paperback books
184057249New York: J.P. Giffing 1840. Improved edition. 8vo. 36 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings front and rear wrappers illustrated with a wood engraving. Almanac information for each month with a 22-page biography of William Henry Harrison. Sabin 30579. American Imprints 41-2404. Drake 7809. Foxed else very good. Original illustrated self-wrappers stitched. #4401. <br/><br/> J.P. Giffing unknown books
184450187Wheeling VA: Published by John J. Haswell bookseller and stationer; printed and sold by Johnston & Stockton Pittsburg 1844. 12mo. 24 leaves. Includes a biographical sketch of Benjamin Rush and a long article on "will making." Not in Drake Almanacs of the United States. Original printed wrappers somewhat soiled stitched; erosion in bottom margin not affecting text. Solid copy. One listing on OCLC AAS. <br/><br/> Published by John J. Haswell, bookseller and stationer; printed and sold by Johnston & Stockton, Pittsburg unknown books
154540844to. 20.5 x 15.4 cm 12 ff. With two title woodcuts of Mars and Luna. Patterned paper over boards with vellum spine; title-plaque on front cover; some expert reinforcement and minor repairs at gutter. Paper has even browning some faint waterstaining with marginal notations on one leaf.<br /><br /><p>The <b>s</b><b>ole known copy</b> of a prediction pamphlet <i>mein Almanac</i> Gasser calls it f12 recto for the year 1546 with <b>the first extended reference to Copernicus printed in a vernacular language German -- </b>an "enthusiastic hymn of praise" for the great astronomer Burmeister addressed not specifically to an international community of scholars but to lay readers of a humble German language almanac whose daily activities "revolve" around the sun. Gasser further acknowledges here heliocentrism as a "hypothesis… demonstratively proven among mathematicians" i.e. a physical fact – a stance virtually unique among astronomers who were generally cautious with their approbations of Copernicus' calculations and methodology in the early years on the road towards its gradual positive reception.</p><p>Achilles Gasser was intimately connected with the dissemination of heliocentrism through his patronage of Georg Rheticus Copernicus' student who initiated and oversaw the 1543 publication of <i>De Revolutionibus</i>. Gasser was one of very few recipients of the <i>Narratio Prima</i> intended to drum up support for Copernicus' work and wrote the preface to the 1541 edition of it. Gasser also owned a copy of <i>De Revolutionibus</i>Gingerich I.99 printed by Johann Petreiuswho not coincidentally also published the present pamphlet. Alongside Rheticus' <i>Narratio Prima</i> of 1540 and Gasser's preface to the second edition of that work in 1541 the <i>Practica</i> offered here represents one of the very earliest published expressions of support for Copernican heliocentrism in any language.</p><p>The extended reference to Copernicus appears in Gasser's dedicatory letter to Caspar Joachim Täntzl a Tyrolean nobleman and mine owner. Gasser takes pains to heap praise upon <i>the most learned and wonderful man Dr. Nicolaus Copernicus</i> who <i>away off in Prussia has taken up the task with such seriousness diligence and steadfastness that for the establishment and restoration of astronomy he has had to lay an utterly and completely new foundation unheard of before or rather has been compelled to posit hypotheses not employed by other scholars…namely that the Sun is a light for all creation and stands unmoved in the midst of the whole universe; that this earthly realm… variously courses round between the planets Venus and Mars. and thus has not only<b> demonstratively proven his theory among the mathematicians</b> and with great pains restored the portrait of Astronomy but has also immediately been regarded as having perpetrated a heresy and indeed—by many others incapable of understanding this matter—is already being condemned</i> see the complete Danielson translation of the epistle below.</p><p>Numerous scholars penned prediction tracts or almanacs in this era including another Petreius author Johannes Schöner; Gasser wrote one for each year from 1544 and 1547. He makes general predictions for the luckiest days of 1546 B4v—as well as specifics relevant for mine owners like Täntzl— for example the relative value of precious metals B3. Part farmer's almanac and part horoscope Gasser's predictions depend on the movement of celestial bodies. His investment in propagating the importance of heliocentrism in this seemingly modest tract should therefore come as no surprise.</p><p>According to Dennis Danielson in the article cited below Gasser also penned on the same day and year a Latin version of the present almanac with a different dedicatory epistle addressed in this case to Rheticus in which he urges the acolyte of the great astronomer to continue his efforts to prove the truth of the Copernican hypothesis. He tells the younger scholar in a manner of speaking that his job isn't finished yet and to get on with it. Several printed copies of this Latin version exist in German institutions but none in America.</p><p>Offered here a well-preserved <b>unique copy</b> of the earliest example of vernacular Copernican ephemera. This present sole known copy now recorded in VD16 as ZV 28055 with 'Martayan Lan New York' as the source was only 'discovered' in the late 1990s by the respected historian of science Karl Heinrich Burmeister through the late Zurich bookdealer Jörg Schäfer.</p><p><b>TEXT OF EPISTLE </b>folios 1v-2r</p><p>To the noble and worthy Caspar Joachim Tantzl of Tratzberg etc. his most gracious and beloved master Achilles Pirmin Gasser of Lindau doctor of natural and medicinal arts extends his willing service and best regards.</p><p>Noble worthy and gracious master Your Worthiness doubtless still remembers the disputation that you often engaged in with me not without exceeding amazement concerning astronomy while I was in your service in Schwatz last year and above all the conversation in which – with the help of a small book I had with me eventually to be printed – I expressed my desire for a large lodestone whereby the course of the Sun and also the disposition of the firmament which in the schools we call the Primum Mobile though we know not where of what it is would here on Earth be rendered calculable and thoroughly perceptible in such a way that no more defects so frequent until now should appear.</p><p>Moreover as I then indicated to Your Worthiness the greatest masters of this art have continuously for seventeen hundred years found the movement of the stars and planets rather incongruous and imperfect according to their instruments and calculations indeed even according to their daily experience. For this reason one after the other they always kept on hoping to adjust improve and remedy this situation by means of clever contrivances and ingenious speculations as is evident in Hipparchus Ptolemy Al-Zarqali Al-Bitrui Cusanus Regiomantanus and finally Werner with each on correcting the other now inventing new spheres then discarding the old ones and thinking up something else and on and on with no end of cycles epicycles and theoricae – until now so recently in our own day also the most learned and wonderful man Dr. Nicolaus Copernicus away off in Prussia has taken up the task with such seriousness diligence and steadfastness that for the establishment and restoration of astronomy he has had to lay an utter and completely new foundation unheard of before or rather has been compelled to posit hypotheses not employed by other scholars namely that the Sun is a light for all creation and stands unmoved in the midst of the whole universe; that his earthly realm together with the other three elements and the circuit of the Moon variously courses round between the planets Venus and Mars; and also that the heavens beyond Saturn in which are seen the fixed stars all together stand fast and unmoved with no other spheres encompassing them etc. and thus has not only demonstratively proven his theory among the mathematicians and with great pains restored the portrait of Astronomy but has also immediately been regarded as having perpetrated a heresy and indeed – by many others incapable of understanding his matter – is already being condemned.</p><p>Since now Your Worthiness has for the benefit of this art and sundry other things promised to extract and provide me with a large lodestone from your mine I have a good will to see progress in this matter and am moved to put these my <i>Practica </i>for the coming year 1546 into writing for as Your Worthiness has no meagre capacity in astrological predictions to make discriminations and record nature's signs – which however must be derived solely from the courses of the planets and their position or placement relative to the other stars – You may easily weigh how very necessary it is that he who can help advise and give impetus to such an undertaking should do so in order that it can actually be brought to fruition.</p><p>So I hoped to in particular that I might in part accomplish this by means of a large lodestone. I would like therefore to ask Your Worthiness to execute the specificied transaction and to be gracious to accept this my published dedication in your honour for I remain ever willing whenever I may to demonstrate to Your Worthiness my love and service. </p><p>May God in heaven be with us and likewise ever protect your noble and virtuous wife and dear children.</p><p>Feldkirch Monday 27 July 1545.</p><p>Burmeister "'Mit subtilen fündlein und sinnreichen speculierungen.'". Die 'Practica auff das M.D.XLvj. jar' des Achilles Pirmin Gasser im Umfeld zeitgenössischer Astrolgen" <i>Montfort</i> 55 2003; Danielson "Achilles Gasser and the Birth of Copernicanism<i>" Journal for the History of Astronomy</i> 35/2004 457-74.</p> J. Petreius hardcover books
184521391New York: American Tract Society 1845. 12mo. 35 1 p. <br><br>In buff printed wrapper with engraved title including four vignettes signed: W. Howland. Printer from front wrapper. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Drake 8293. Lacking rear wrapper; front wrapper detached water stianed and chipped. American Tract Society unknown books
1835WRCAM41291Boston: Published by Charles Ellms 1835. 48pp. including numerous illustrations. Stitched as issued. Tanning light foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. A collection of numerous witticisms anecdotes and a comical tale taking place in London. Very heavily illustrated with woodcuts of a humorous nature. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 31085. DRAKE 4102. Published by Charles Ellms 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
1826620812mo. Boston: Christian Register Office 1826. 12mo 48pp. lacking covers. Chipping to front free endpaper with folds at top right corner. Tear along front hinge about 1-inch from bottom. Inscription to front free endpaper and notes throughout. In a new cloth folding box. § Inscribed by Percy Loring to the Rev. Mr. Brooks probably in or near to 1824. The Lorings of the Boston area were a very prominent family in the 18th-century though no mention was found of a Percy in the family records. With a later inscription to Francis Thompson and nephews and Cropper Benson. Christian Register Office hardcover books
11069pamphlet. 34 pages. 12mo original pictorial wrappers. N.p. 1880-1881.<br/><br/> unknown books
190814426Elgin Illinois: Brethren Publishing. Very Good. 1908. Softcover. Melon colored wraps few chips to wraps pages 62 else G . Brethren Publishing paperback books
188914257Akron: Beacon Publishing Company. Very Good. 1889. Softcover. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 wrappers some soil and few chips . Beacon Publishing Company paperback books
