‎Almanach‎

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5922

‎ALMANAC]. Quebec‎

‎The Quebec Almanack and British American Royal Kalendar for the year 1833 Being the first year after leap year‎

‎QUEBEC: The Quebec Almanac 1832. very good to fine. Printed and sold by Neilson & Cowan. 14.5cm 248p. 2 folding tables in the original printed wraps upper cover tattered at the front edge slight loss of text T.P.L. 707. Gagnon I-96. All volumes have sections in English and in French. Most of the volumes contain information on astronomy calendars remarkable events courts in Quebec duties and customs members of the executive and legislative councils of the Assembly and government departments lists of notaries surgeons pilots constables military organizations and religious and educational institutions. William Brown began printing this valuable compendium in 1780 and after his death in 1789 it was continued by the Neilson family until 1841. It did not appear however in 1781 1783 1790 1793 or 1795. The only collection known to contain all the volumes issued was burned in the Library of Parliament in Montreal April 25 1849. Contents generally include: Common notes and calendar - Diameter of the planets - Tide table - Chronological table - Remarkable events of our own times - governor Legislature Executive Council public officers and commissioners - Courts of justice - Justices of the Peace - Advocates - Notaries - Surveyors - Physicians and Surgeons - Trinity House pilots and rates - Officers of the customs - General post office - Militia staff and officers - Clergy of the established church - Church of Rome and convents - Church of Scotland - School masters - Public and charitable institutions - Free-mason - Governor and principal officers of Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Cape Breton and Newfound-land - Court terms - List of bailiffs - Duties on importations - Roads and stopping Houses etc. etc. The Quebec Almanac unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30177

‎Almanach‎

‎1844 bis 1969. 125 Jahre Rütten & Loening Berlin Verlagsverzeichnis Herbst 1969.‎

‎Rütten & Loening Berlin 1969 1969. Obr.142s. in gutem Zustand HSA52a SC Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1969, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2754

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach 1992. Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag.‎

‎Frankfurt 1992 1992. Obr. 80s. in gutem Zustand SAP470 SC Frankfurt 1992, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2762

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das siebzigste Jahr 1886 – 1956.‎

‎S. Fischer. Frankfurt 1956. 1929. Obr Ou. 211s. in gutem Zustand LSB226a. SC S. Fischer., Frankfurt 1956., unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2764

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 1978.‎

‎Frankfurt, 1977. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7588

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 1980.‎

‎Frankfurt, 1979. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7590

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 1983.‎

‎Frankfurt, 1982. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7593

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 1988.‎

‎Frankfurt, 1987. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

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‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 2005.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig, 2004. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 11120

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach auf das Jahr 2007.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig, 2006. Insel, 1. Auflage.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13900

‎ALMANACH‎

‎ALMANACH CHANTANT ILLUSTRE.‎

‎Paris Delarue 1852, In-12 broché de 64 pages. Une tache sur le 2° plat. Choix de chansons comiques et populaires illustrées par H. EMY, gravures par LAVIELLE.Bon exemplaire toutefois. Rare.‎

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach der deutschen Eisenbahnen 1964‎

‎Almanach Darmstadt 98 S. mit zahlr. teilw. ganzseitigen Abb. Ln. Kleber auf Einband. unknown‎

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‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach Du Combattant 1972‎

‎G Durassié Cie 1971. 1971. 1972. Etat passable / convenable livre usé / défraichi vendu en l'état pour exemplaire de lecture bien complet de ses pages. Livre broché couverture souple. En stock. Vendeur PRO Français. Expédition rapide et soignée sous enveloppe cartonnée ou à bulles G Durassié Cie unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 200009302

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach des gourmands 1930‎

‎Arthème Fayard et Cie Paris 1930. Grand In/8 reliure demi-toile granitée rouge illustrations 374 p. Papier jauni pages 271 à 292 avec un manque dans la marge coins cornés. Articles des meilleurs gastronomes caricatures reportages curiosités gastronomiques conseils recettes. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5179

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach des E. Reiß Verlages Das Jahrzehnt 1908 - 1918.‎

‎Erich Reiß Berlin 1919 1919. Obr. 211s. Fraktur in gutem Zustand FLAP11 SC Erich Reiß, Berlin 1919 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2799

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach der Bundesregierung 1995/96.‎

‎Bonn 1995. 1995. Obr 508s. in gutem Zustand MSA132a. SC Bonn 1995., unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2765

‎ALMANACH‎

‎Almanach d'illustrations modernes 1863‎

‎Paris Pagnerre 1863, In-8 broché de 47 pages. Nombreuses illustrations in et hors texte. Croquis par CHAM. Trés bon état.‎

‎ALMANACH‎

‎Almanach du voleur. 1863‎

‎Au dépot central des almanachs, 1863. In-8 broché de 44 pages. Illustrations in et hor- texte.‎

‎ALMANACH‎

‎ALMANACH LYONNAIS 1935‎

‎Editions du Pigeonnier Lyon 1934. In/8 reliure demi-basane rouge dos à nerfs à fleuron et titres dorés couverture conservée & illustrée par J. Drevet illustrations : frontispice Marcel Gimond bandeaux Illustrations par Chieze Gimond Schulz Seignobos Combet-Descombes. 156 p. Exemplaire numéroté sur vélin montgolfier. Rousseurs éparse petit manque à la couverture. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21510

‎Almanach‎

‎Almanach – Das vierundsechzigste Jahr 1886 – 1950.‎

‎S. Fischer. Frankfurt 1950. 1937. Opb Ou. 207s. in gutem Zustand LSB226a. HC S. Fischer., Frankfurt 1950., unknown‎

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‎Almanach‎

‎Almathea Almanach auf das jahr 1919‎

‎Leipzig: Almathea 1919. kart. Almathea unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 55913

‎Almanach‎

‎Bonna Misa Almanach zum Presseball 1960‎

‎Bonn: Bundespressekonferenz. kart. Bundespressekonferenz unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 52952

‎Almanach‎

‎Bonnerbrueter‎

‎Bonn: Bundespressekonferenz 1979. kart. Bundespressekonferenz unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30526