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1841rif. 37610Boston: 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. 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. "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." Dumond 83 this imprint. Drake 4222. J.A. Collins unknown books
1840rif. 37606Boston: 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. 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." Not located on OCLC or the AAS web site as of May 2021. S.N. Dickinson unknown books
1823rif. 2966Argau Switzerland: Jakob Diebold 1823. Very Good. 4to. 48 pp. Pictorial wrappers stitched as issued. Tables printed in black & red lower page corners folded some moderate edge wear a bit of foxing or staining. Well worn but generally very good with a few small tears along edges. An extremely scarce 1824 provincial Swiss Almanac well illustrated with curious woodcuts including an elaborate title-page border in the neo-classical style back cover depiction of the slaughter of the Greek patriarch a double-page fold-out plate of a castle in Baden small dirt stain at top and twelve emblematic woodcuts depicting astrological attributes of each month. Owing to the fact that only one other copy seems to have survived it is not surprising that we have been unable to locate reproductions of any of these woodcuts published elsewhere. The title-page woodcut appears to have been signed in the border the artist / engraved "Z. Morman." Several of the woodcut zodiac symbols are signed "Z." Jakob Diebold a bookbinder took over the publication of this Haus-Kalender a.k.a. the Swiss "Baden Kalendar" from Heinrich Joseph Keiser sometime after 1808 during which time he ran both the bindery and the Baldinger printing press. Sales of the almanac under Diebold greatly improved largely due to the improving economic and intellectual conditions of Baden. This calendar contains a "Directory of school books children's writings and writing materials which are available from B.J. Diebold book printers and bookbinders in Baden." The almanac includes a report on the New Year i.e. 1824 a directory and covers a range of topics including chronology astronomy astrology and herbal medicine. The ZB Zurich has scattered holdings of Diebold's publication namely: 1811-1812; 1819-1821; 1824 the present year 1825-1826; 1831; 1837; 1846. The Landesmuseum has three unrelated issues 1817-1819. Jakob Diebold unknown books
1817rif. LLV2648Paris & 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
1869rif. 29633Philadelphia: 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. 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
1834rif. 26879New York: Sold by D. Felt & Co. Boston: Published by Charles Ellms Agent 1834. 47 1 pp profusely illustrated. Illustrated title page captioned 'Dangerous Attempt to Destroy a Hawk's Nest.' Last page a full-page woodcut captioned 'The Dead Elephant--- A Scene in India.' Disbound glue remnant along inside margin of title page. Light scattered foxing lightly worn. Good to Good. An attractive almanac with many full-page and in-text woodcuts and accompanying explanatory text. It includes 'An Account of Nahant' with an illustration of the Indian 'Black William Selling Nahant to Mr. Thomas Dexter for a suit of clothes in 1630.' A double-page woodcut is printed of a 'Disastrous Attempt to Ascend Mount Blanc.' Other illustrations with text are offered from all over the world: a 'View of a Chinese Floating Town' a 'Newfoundland Dog' a 'Cashmere Goat' and much else. Drake 4088 1- MWA. AI 26202 4. Sold by D. Felt & Co. Boston: Published by Charles Ellms, Agent unknown books
1848rif. 19017Reading 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
1898rif. 19013Lancaster 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
1887rif. 19015Lancaster 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
1894rif. 19014Lancaster 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
1899rif. 19016Lancaster 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
1872rif. 12243New 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
1865rif. 6226Paris: 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
1883rif. 6734New York: Published by the Centaur Co. 182 Fulton Street opposite St. Pauls Church-yard 1883. Stapled in wrappers 20.5 x 15 cm. 31 1 pages. Illustrated maps. Title and publication information from wrapper. A "great combination" almanac with ephemerides maps and culinary recipes all for the New York patent medicine firm Centaur makers of Castoria and Centaur Linament. Includes both culinary and medicinal recipes and short stories and vignettes. In publisher's red black and yellow decorated wrappers illustrated with an image of "The Diver" which adorns many of the Centaur publications. OCLC records ten copies; not in O'Neal. Published by the Centaur Co., 182 Fulton Street, opposite St. Pauls Church-yard unknown books
1887rif. 5922Buffalo 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
1845rif. 21391New York: American Tract Society 1845. 12mo. 35 1 p. In buff printed wrapper with engraved title including four vignettes signed: W. Howland. Printer from front wrapper. Drake 8293. Lacking rear wrapper; front wrapper detached water stianed and chipped. American Tract Society unknown books
1889rif. 14257Akron: 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
1835rif. WRCAM41291Boston: 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
1856rif. WRCAM37622Boston & Cleveland: Damrell Moore G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett 1856. 128pp. including four full-page wood-engraved illustrations with green-tinted backgrounds plus twenty pages of advertisements primarily illustrated before and after the text. 16mo. Original red publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt a.e.g. Spine worn at top and bottom. Front and rear pastedowns are both advertisements with gold printing on red paper. Modern booksellers tickets pasted on front and rear pastedown. Four additional pages of advertisements printed in gold on red paper. Wood engraved illustrated titlepage with background tinted green. Six additional wood engraved illustrations in text with green-tinted backgrounds. Textblock moderately sprung. A very good copy. A rare edition of this handsomely produced mid-19th-century almanac published for women. The first fifty-two pages of the volume are devoted to the year 1857. Each month includes a calendar with solar and lunar information for northern middle and southern states; a page for daily memoranda; and text including anniversaries events and maxims specific for each month. Four months January April July and October also include full-page wood engraved illustrations with the background tinted light green. The remainder of the volume has a variety of brief reading selections with topics including household economy woman's sphere in modern life marriage gardening the aesthetics of dress and literary questions. The illustrated advertisements found before and after the text promote a wide range of Boston commercial establishments. These include a bookstore a wood engraver and stores for French and American paper-hangings furniture and sewing machines. Four of these advertisements are strikingly printed in gold on red paper as are the advertisements on the front and rear pastedowns. A rare lady's almanac from the mid-1800s; OCLC records a single copy. OCLC 46680535. Damrell, Moore, G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett hardcover books
1860rif. WRCAM41779New York: B.L. Judson & Co. 1860. 24pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Some chipping and tears to wrappers. Very minor soiling. Good. A rare patent-medicine almanac reprinting the story of an herbalist's rescue of Tula the Aztec princess likely fabricated to promote the sale of Judson's various medicaments. Originally printed in 1859 by the same publisher the almanac recounts the story of the "wealthy herbalist Dr. Cunard who with a trapper named Du Bois or Hawk Eye spent seven years trapping and travelling throughout the Far West. The doctor had a number of unusual experiences not the least of which was his single-handed defiance of the Navajo Tribe as they were about to burn Tula the Aztec princess at the stake. This was accomplished by capitalizing on the fortuitous imminence of a total eclipse of which the good doctor knew after consulting his handy little almanac. The Navajo chief was as confounded as Merlin in an earlier day and promptly gave up not only Tula but also his secret mountain-herb recipe. A trapper's testimonial direct from St. Louis concludes this 'True Account'" - Eberstadt. The almanac seems to have been published for only about four years 1860- 63 although the advertisement/story does appear in a few other almanacs as well. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1861 almanac and only one of most of the others as well at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Rare and interesting. EBERSTADT 127:215 ref. B.L. Judson & Co. unknown books
1782rif. WRCAM28213Providence: 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
1764rif. 319586Boston: 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
1763rif. 319585Boston: 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." 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