‎Almanac‎

‎Almanac.‎

‎Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1881.‎

‎Square 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,‎

Bookseller reference : 102067

‎Almanac.‎

‎Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1881.‎

‎Square 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

Bookseller reference : 102067

‎Almanac.‎

‎Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1888.‎

‎Square 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

Bookseller reference : 102069

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Amsterdamsche almanak voor koophandel en zeevaart. 1919. Uitgegeven door het bestuur van het college Zeemanshoop.‎

‎Amsterdam Erven H. van Munster & Zoon 1919. Sm.8vo. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. With 6 coloured plates with flags. 26812 pp. With library stamp of Collegie Zeemanshoop. - This almanac was issued between 1828 and 1943. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[35505]

‎Almanac.‎

‎Hostetter's Illustrated United Sates Almanac 1882.‎

‎Pamphlet 8vo blue -green wrappers illustrated. Wrappers slightly faded and soiled blue paper dot label on rear cover in the bottom margin usual corner folds slight soiling and staining; otherwise very good. Attractive almanac with the usual material but this one includes considerable medical advice. Also includes several sizeable wood engraved illustrations. Hostetter & Smith, books‎

Bookseller reference : 102073

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1797.‎

‎London: printed for the Company of Stationers 1796. A charming miniature almanac for 1797 well-preserved in the publisher's morocco wallet-style binding. Continuously published for over 200 years the famous London Almanack "established a record of longevity in the miniature book world" Bondy p. 39. The contents give a calendar for the upcoming year alongside lists of reigns London mayors and sheriffs holidays and current coins. Miniature almanac 31 x 29 mm. Engraved throughout on both sides of 21 leaves. Duty stamp on title page as issued. Original wallet-style red morocco case ruled in blind marbled endpapers edges gilt. Book block split in one section remaining sound in the fresh binding. A very good example. ESTC T127705 in a variant format; Welsh 4592. Louis W. Bondy Miniature Books: Their History from the Beginnings to the Present Day 1981. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 143566

‎Almanac.‎

‎Phinney's Calendar or Western Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1882…‎

‎Pamphlet 24mo 3 1/4" x 5 1/2" original printed wrappers stitched some ad pages. Front cover almost detached some soiling staining and browning last leaf with some tears and chips and with some text lost usual corner folds and minor chips; a decent copy. According to the title page this is the 85th edition of this almanac which is packed with considerable information. Contains the usual weather charts and astrological material but this one also includes a few ad pages. The notes and comments included cover everything from Christmas trees to the value of books. Willard A. Crockett, books‎

Bookseller reference : 102064

‎Almanac.‎

‎Public Ledger Almanac 1883.‎

‎Pamphlet 8vo original illustrated wrappers 57 pp. Some wear and chipping to spine covers very slightly faded a little soiled occasional limited staining or soiling normal aging; about very good. The publisher informs the reader this is fourteenth installment of this almanac and it is distributed without cost. This almanac is a good reference for all the churches and services no matter what the denomination in Philadelphia. The rear cover has an illustration of the Public Ledger Building. Geo. W. Childs, books‎

Bookseller reference : 102075

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎REGERINGS-ALMANAK VOOR NEDERLANDSCH-INDIË 1942. Eerste gedeelte: grondgebied en bevolking inrichting van het bestuur van Nederlandsch-Indië.‎

‎Batavia Landsdrukkerij 1941. Original printed boards sl. damaged. LVI510 pp. Government yearbook for the Dutch East Indies for the year 1942. Important source giving much information on the departements in the Dutch East Indies. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[35253]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎The Methodist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1852: Being Bissextile or Leap Year and the Seventy-Sixth of American Independence.‎

‎New York:: Lane & Scott 1852. First edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Marginal damage to a couple of leaves; wrappers tanned with light use. 12mo. A few engraved illustrations. Lane & Scott, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 66754

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Utrechtsche volks-almanak voor het jaar 1853.‎

‎Utrecht L.E. Bosch en Zoon 1852. Sm.8vo. Original printed boards. a.e.g. With lithographed frontispiece portrait and 3 tinted lithographed views. 172IV pp. Popular Utrecht almanac devoted to Utrecht regional histoty and culture. With fine views of De monnikenboom and 2 double-page views of t' Klooster der Carthuysers and Gouvernement te Utrecht. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[37279]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Utrechtsche-schrijf-almanak voor het jaar . 1834 voorzien met de jaar- paarden- koeijen- schapen- varken- kaasmarkten enz. het vertekken en aankomen der posten en boden; het afvaren der veerschepen trekschuiten en stoomboten; en het afrijden en aankomen der diligence en postwagens in de provinciën Utrecht Holland Gelderland enz. Het haventij voor onderscheidene plaatsen in Nederland enz. Het op- en ondergaan der maan.‎

‎Utrecht Kemink en Zoon 1833. Sm.8vo. Contemporary green overlapping vellum. With woodcut profile of Utrecht on titlepage and folding table Nieuwe steede-wyzer. 25 lvs. Interleaved copy. With handwritten family information about Johannes Frederik Rijkhoff 1811 Jannetje Voorhorst 1807 and their children Christina Dorothea 1837 Albert 1839 and Jannette 1842 on last leaf. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[35988]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Vergeet mij niet. Muzen-almanak voor 1861. Jaargang 43.‎

‎Amsterdam P.H. Laaman 1860. Sm.8vo. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt. a.e.g. sl. soiled. With steelengraved title-page frontispiece portrait and 3 of 4 engraved plates. VIII248 pp. A popular literary almanac. - Stained. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[37276]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Vergeet mij niet. Muzen-almanak voor 1859. Jaargang 41.‎

‎Amsterdam P.H. Laaman 1858. Sm.8vo. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt. a.e.g. sl. soiled. With steelengraved title-page frontispiece portrait and 5 engraved plates. VIII264 pp. A popular literary almanac. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[37275]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Vergeet mij niet. Muzen-almanak voor 1855. Jaargang 37.‎

‎Amsterdam P.H. Laaman 1854. Sm.8vo. Original embossed red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt. a.e.g. With steelengraved title-page frontispiece portrait and 5 engraved plates. VIII280 pp. A popular literary almanac. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[37272]

‎ALMANAC.‎

‎Zeeuwsche volks-almanak voor het jaar 1842.‎

‎Zierikzee J. van de Velde 1841. Sm.8vo. Original printed boards. With coat of arms on title-page. With folding plate of the sun an moon eclips and 2 folding lithographed views of Sluis. C156 pp. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : #[37465]

‎ALMANAC. BULLFIGHT‎

‎Messager Boiteux Almanach historique  Contenant des Observations astronomiques sur chaque mois. Le cours du Soleil et de la Lune. Pour l'An de Grace 1845. Par Antoine Souci‎

‎A Vevey Chez L'OErtscher et Fils. 1845. 4to 208 x 168 pp. 64 title-page with woodcut red and black on fifth leaf Le Veritable Messager Boiteux de Berne et Vevey on woodcut front cover soiled woodcut illustrations in text 2 full-page woodcuts in text folding engraved woodcut of "Combat de taureaux a Quito en Amerique" plate area measuring 280 x 160 mms. with French - Swiss exchange rates for five francs on verso stitched as issued; lacks rear cover edges worn and creased but text clear and clean. This almanac is notable for being an exceedingly rare publication from the tiny township of Vevy in eastern France and for including a very early depiction of bullfighting. The commune of Vevey had a population of only 398 residents in 1841 and a more recent census conducted in 2013 recorded a population of merely 251 residents. The engraved title-page gives a variant title Le Véritable Messager Boiteux de Berne et Vevey which indicates that the coverage of the content includes Berne the "de facto capital of Switzerland" Wikipedia. Why a French-Swiss almanac would include an image of a bullfight in Quito the capital city of Ecuador in the first half of the nineteenth century is not a question that I can answer. According to the title-page the almanac includes astronomical observations keyed to each month the cycles of both sun and moon the principal fairs scheduled for Switzerland Germany and France plus a series of narratives and anecdotes accompanied by illustrations. The title-page also assures the reader that he or she is in good hands as the author of the almanac Antoine Souci is both astronomer and historiographer. "Cette publication à fort caractère régional contient les calendriers protestants et catholiques des observations astronomiques sur chaque mois le cours du soleil et de la lune les principales foires de Suisse des départements limitrophes de la France et de la vallée d'Aoste un recueil de récits et d'anecdotes accompagné de gravures une revue des principaux événements survenus dans le monde en Suisse et dans chacun des cantons romands l'année précédente. Le messager boiteux contient également des prévisions statistiques climatiques pour l'année à venir. Il est souvent mentionné en référence aussi bien dans les conversations de tous les jours que dans les articles de presse lorsque des périodes climatiques particulières surviennent canicules longues périodes humides grands froids etc." Wikepedia. Why a Swiss almanac would include an image of a bullfight in Ecquador is not a question I can answer. No copy of this 1845 edition in COPAC. The only copy I have located of this almanac in a library is the one at Harvard catalogued under the engraved title Le Véritable Messager Boiteux de Berne et Vevey at Houghton shelfmark FC8.A100.845m. A Vevey, Chez L'OErtscher et Fils..., 1845 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 8538

‎ALMANAC. ABERDEEN‎

‎The New Aberdeen Almanac and Northern Supplement to Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac for 1838: Comprising Lists connected with the City of Aberdeen and the Counties of Aberdeen Banff and Kincardine‎

‎Aberdeen: Prepared and Published by Lewis Smith & Peter Gray. 1836. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo in 6s 146 x 88 mms. pp. ii 144 24 original printed green boards rubbed and slightly soiled red roan rubbed and a little worn but a good copy with the contemporary autograph "Wm Burnet Craigie/ Linton/ 1838" on the recto of the front free end-paper. The twenty-four pages at the end contain the publishers' announcement and adverts. This would appear to be their first venture at an Aberdeen almanac; "The Publishers of the New Aberdeen Almanac are not unaware of the fact that there is yet ample room in it for still farther improvement. But they beg their fellow-citizens to receive with indulgence this the first attempt at improvement where they conceived improvement was loudly called for." Uncommon: OCLC locates a copy in Aberdeen University Library. Aberdeen: Prepared and Published by Lewis Smith & Peter Gray..., [1836] hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 8630

‎ALMANAC. THE J. R. WATKINS MEDICAL COMPANY.‎

‎Watkins Almanac Home Doctor and Cook Book 1916.‎

‎Winona Minnesota:: The J. R. Watkins Medical Company 1916. First edition. publisher's wrappers illustrated in color. Some minor use to the wrappers; attractive. 8vo. Illustrated throughout from engravings; some color. The J. R. Watkins Medical Company, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78285

‎ALMANAC. THE J. R. WATKINS MEDICAL COMPANY.‎

‎Watkins Almanac Home Doctor and Cook Book 1918.‎

‎Winona Minnesota:: The J. R. Watkins Medical Company 1918. First edition. publisher's wrappers illustrated in color. A very attractive copy. 8vo. Illustrated throughout from engravings. The J. R. Watkins Medical Company, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78288

‎ALMANAC. 1865]‎

‎The Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1863 being the Third after Leap Year containing Full and Authentic Commercial Statistical Astronomical Departmental Ecclesiastical Financial and General Information. Header. Eighteenth Year of Publication‎

‎Toronto. W.C. Chewett & Co. 1864. 8vo. 23cm 991p. folding frontis map in the original blind decorated cloth gilt cover title near fine. N12. A detailed overview of the Province of Canada Canada West and Canada East shortly before Confederation. Interestingly the terms Upper Canada and Lower Canada were occasionally still used. The detailed map is of the lower part of Canada West southwestern Ontario in 1865 engraved by W.C. Chewett & Co. Toronto. The map contains a list of Railway Stations. and distances. Toronto. W.C. Chewett & Co. 1864 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 40702

‎Almanac. G. G. Green.‎

‎Green's Census And Diary Almanac 1881 & 1882‎

‎Woodbury NJ: G. G. Green 1881. First edition. Wrappers. Good. 8vo 32 pages green of course wrappers worn <br/><br/>Illustrated with woodcuts. With a fold-out Industrial Map of the United States based on the census of 1880. G. G. Green unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4421

‎Almanac. Russia]‎

‎St. Petersburger Calender auf das Jahr nach Christi Geburt 1814 melches ein gemeines Jahr ift von 365 Jagen gerichtet auf die bornehmiten Derter des Ruffifcher Reichs‎

‎St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften. 1813 1813. Soft cover. 8vo 19.8cm 1131p. including title with blank interleaves original plain pattern wrappers a fine copy tds. - A fine clean copy of this Russian almanac for 1814 containing much information on the climate demography leaders an events etc. St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften. [1813] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28745

‎ALMANAC/EPHEMERA GASSER Achilles Pirmin.‎

‎THE FIRST COPERNICAN ALMANAC<br> THE EARLIEST VERNACULAR ANNOUNCEMENT OF COPERNICAN HELIOCENTRISM<br> SOLE KNOWN COPY <br> Practica auff das M.D.XLvj. jar/ durch Doctorem Achillem P. Gasser L. zu Feldkirch gemacht‎

‎4to. 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

Bookseller reference : 4084

‎Almanac; World's Dispensary Medical Association‎

‎The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar: with select receipts and household information‎

‎Buffalo 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

Bookseller reference : 5922