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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
185032474Philadelphia: Published and Sold by Jos. McDowell 1850. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 36 pages. Illustrated. Brown paper wraps with title and ship illustration on the front cover. Illustrations inside. Stitched wraps has an old tape repair on the spine. Toning to the contents. Scarce. Published and Sold by Jos. McDowell unknown
32 pages. Features: Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece - the world's first novel; The Tale of Genji - Fine Bone China Shell Collection; The Art of the Cachet - philatelic collectors are finding a divident in their hobby - the outstanding artwork of the cachet; Helen Reddy - her needlework is as important as her music; Decorating with your Collections; Ronald Van Ruyckevelt - the reigning genius of porcelain design; The Cowboy - eternal masterpiece Number 39; Dallas / Forth Worth has become home to many first-rate collections. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Josef Puehringer creates art in crystal; The Flight of the Crystal Swallows; After the Hung - Eternal Masterpieces Number 38; David Kennerly - leading photojournalist focuses on collecting the pioneers of his profession; On to Alaska - member Alaska cruise; Decorating with your Collections; Boxes - great illustrated article; San Francisco abounds with fine collections; Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Magazine
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
1968471934Kendal: World Ship Society Ltd. 1968. 63 S. 21,5 cm. Zustand: Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Minischildchen (2x1cm) auf dem Vorsatzblatt, läßt sich wohl entfernen, mir gelang das einmal; Einband (Außen) hat leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Buchrücken ist an zwei Stelle leicht aufgeplatzt;Innenbandbereiche und Vorsatzblätter, gering braunfleckig; Helft mit Klammern
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
0267257279.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1332853056.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
17666208Edinburgh: Printed for and sold by R. Fleming 1766. 12mo ff. 24 pp. 25-120. First three gatherings printed on alternate openings only. Contemporary vellum boards bordered with double blind rules. A touch toned. Binding a little soiled small patch of wear to front board. Clipping of signature of J. Millar pasted to pastedown contemporary ink notes to flyleaves red duty stamp to first page. An attractive pocket almanac in which a previous owner has made some notes to the flyleaves mostly relating to money debited and credited and lent to a woman named Tiby Brown to buy shoes. Scarce with Library Hub recording 3 copies all in Scotland: NLS NMS and St Andrews. Printed for and sold by R. Fleming hardcover
17857674Edinburgh: Printed for R. & G. Flemings 1785. 12mo pp. 92 i.e. 192. Contemporary sheep boards bordered with a blind roll. Paper toned one or two edge tears some light soiling. Binding a bit rubbed and marked extremities worn. Ownership inscription of J. Fullarton to flyleaf red tax stamp to title-page. A scarce Edinburgh almanac ESTC locating copies in the NLS Paxton House St Andrews and Yale only. ESTC N472080. Printed for R. & G. Flemings hardcover
193372997[Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University, 1933]. 383 S. Mit teils mehr-, teils einfarb. Art Déco-Buchschmuck u. zahlr. s/w fotograf. Abb. 4to (31 cm). OLn. m. Blind- u. Goldprägung u. illustr. Vorsätzen.
pp. iv, 60, 360. 12mo. Disbound. Old ownerships. A great record of the individuals involved in the official life of England and its Colonies during this momentous period. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 8
1853048326London: Wm. S. Orr and Co. 1853. Green marbled boards quarter leather. Cover: some heavy rubbing and scuffing. Spine: gilt title and gilt bands. Wear to boards extremeties. Edges: once red speckled edges now quite faded light browning and foxings. Eps: fep with owners name /address in old English roundhand April 1891; moderate foxings. Faint foxing to many pages pages albeit mostly to the margins. Illustrated drawings. Binding is As New. 512p plus 68p of The Cottage Gardener's Weekly Calendar plus Index. Heavy book: nearly 2 kgs. First Edition. Hb. VG/None. Wm. S. Orr and Co. Hardcover
18316413London: Charles Knight 1831. 3 vols. bound as 1 8vo pp. 240 240 256. Contemporary calf boards bordered with triple blind rules spine divided by raised bands red morocco label other compartments tooled in gilt edges sprinkled red. Binding a touch scratched spine lightly sunned. A nicely bound group of early issues of the information-packed miscellanies produced under the auspices of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to accompany their own series of almanacs which had begun in 1828. Charles Knight hardcover
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
7110London, A. H. Baily and Co, 1838. In-12 relié demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, XVI-177 p. Plates. Frontispiece : "A Cheerful Glass". Head and tail pieces. Tête dorée. Très bon état. The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1838.
659Londres, David Bogue, 1852., Couverture souple In-12, reliure entoilée ornée sur le plat supérieur d'une figure grotesque. Reliure frottée et légèrement déboîtée. Intérieur frais.
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
1809345475Wilmington: Printed & Sold by Peter Brynberg 1809. Woodcut seal of the United States on the title. 48pp. Uncut. 12mo. Stitched. Woodcut seal of the United States on the title. 48pp. Uncut. 12mo. Drake 1430; Shaw 17258; Sabin 14857 Printed & Sold by Peter Brynberg unknown
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
18808067New York: The Centaur Co 1880. Stapled booklet 16 x 10 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A small promotional cookbook in the form of an almanac from the makers of Centaur Liniments with recipes testimonials and descriptions of the applications of this miraculous cure from lands far and wide. As is typical of these books the recipes are very brief and uncredited. Short closed tear to fold of wrappers decorated in black red and yellow depicting a Near Eastern landscape with buildings and camel. Tiny pink cord to hang the booklet in the kitchen. Near fine. The Centaur Co unknown
4276Montréal, Robt. Miller, Son & Co. Stationers, Etc., (1893). In-32 (10 x 6,5 cm) non paginé (176) pages. Reliure de toile brune d’éditeur ornée à froid au plat supérieur. Exemplaire frotté en partie dérelié. Nom d’un ex-proprio, R. F. Lockwood Xmas 1893, sur la garde.
