Lancaster, 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..... More
Reading, 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..... More
New 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..... More
Boston: Printed & Sold by J. Draper, in Cornhil... [1762]. 12 leaves, stitched, beginning to loosen. Light wear and soil, toned. Good+. Ames reminds his readers that "in general we know nothing of the Connection of Things, we cannot see the Links of that great Chain which binds with certainty..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1769]. 12mo. 12 leaves (complete), tanned, untrimmed, stitched. Some dusting and darkening, Good+. "This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1769..." NAIP. New London, Hartford..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by William M'Alpine, [1766]. 16mo. 12 leaves (complete). Loose, light edge wear, toned, Good+. This Almanac celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface by Ames, lauding Americans' "exertion of that noble spirit of Freedom, which every thinking honest Man that has ever been galled..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1766]. 12 leaves (complete), stitched and untrimmed. Light wear, Very Good. NAIP says "this is undoubtedly the pirated edition," despite the advertisement on the last page warning of "spurious editions." The Almanac celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1767]. 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Light dustsoiling, blank corner wear. Good+. The almanac prints the important pre-Revolutionary Resolutions of the Town of Boston, urging development of domestic industries and discouraging European importations, in view of the "heavy Debt, incurred in the..... More
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Newport, Rhode-Island: Printed by Solomon Southwick... [1773]. 12mo. (32) pp. Illustrated with woodcut of an astronomer with telescope, on front wrapper, and woodcut of the anatomy of the human body, p. (8). Some extremity wear, without loss. Very Good. With "A Table to bring Old Tenor into Lawful Money"; information..... More
Hudson: Printed and Sold by Ashbel Stoddard, [1796]. 36pp, stitched, lightly worn and spotted. Some pages printed on blue stock. Good+. A rare almanac, NAIP locating only four copies. Information on courts, roads, post-roads, "A singular mode of distilling BRANDY in Sweden," and a variety of anecdotes. Evans 30048. NAIP..... More
New York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, [1799]. [36] pp, as issued. Stitched, scattered light to moderate foxing, untrimmed. Good+. With contemporary ownership signature, and notes, of John Hetherington. Beers was the author, Hutchins having died in 1782 [ESTC]. This issue prints an advertisement for 'Moore's Gentleman and Lady's..... More
New York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, [1797]. 36pp [as issued]. Stitched. Scattered foxing, light wear, Good+. "Hutchins died in 1782, and the calculator of the present almanac is Andrew Beers" [ESTC]. With illustrated anatomy; an Essay on the necessity to restore republican simplicity in order to recover from..... More
Hudson: Printed and Sold by Ashbel Stoddard, [1795]. 48pp, plus interleaves, which have some contemporary notes. Stitched, lightly worn and spotted. Some leaves trimmed closely at the top, shaving some lettering on top line. Good+. Advertisement for Andrew Beers's Land Office in Ulster County on the last page. One of..... More
Providence: Printed and Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by John Carter, near the State-House, [1792]. 12mo. [24] pp. Stitched in contemporary plain paper wrappers. Minor occasional spotting. Very Good. "'Isaac Bickerstaff' is a common pseudonym in almanacs. Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan..... More
Providence: John Carter, [1799]. 12 leaves [as issued], sewn, untrimmed, first leaf's blank lower margin cut shorter than others. Very Good. Shipton & Mooney 43606. Drake 12963. Bristol 4929. More
Salem, N.C. [1865]. Original printed, illustrated, and decorated wrappers with wrapper title [as issued]. 36pp, minor edge chipping, scattered staining. Good+. Not a Confederate imprint, the text referring to Andrew Johnson as President. Blum, according to the advertisement on the rear wrap, owned the Salem Printing Office and published the..... More
New-London: Printed and Sold by T. Green, [1788]. [22] pp [of 24, lacking the last leaf]. Stitched, light wear. Except as noted, Good+. Evans 21039. Drake 439. More
Providence: Printed and Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by John Carter, [1790]. 12mo. [24] pp, as issued. Stitched. Tanned and loosened, 1935 ownership signature. Else Very Good. "'Isaac Bickerstaff' is a common pseudonym in almanacs. Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll" [NAIP]..... More
Providence: Printed and Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by John Carter, [1789]. 12mo. [24] pp, as issued. Stitched. Light wear, owner's signature from 1935. Very Good. "'Isaac Bickerstaff' is a common pseudonym in almanacs. Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll" [NAIP]. This..... More
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, [1797]. 12mo. 12 leaves, as issued, on thick paper. Stitched, some spotting, Good+. With contemporary notations in ink, recording the birth of Benjamin Robinson Greene; the death of Christopher Greene; notes by Isaac Hall; and other information. "'Isaac Bickerstaff' is a common pseudonym in almanacs. Erroneously..... More
New York: Published at the Office of the Evening Post, 1841 [i.e., 1840]. 36pp, stitched [loosening], lightly foxed. Very Good. The Almanac "contains full and correct returns of all the elections in 1839, and also those which have taken place in 1840, up to the time of putting it to..... More
Boston: T. &. J. Fleet, [1794]. 12mo. (20), 148pp. Stitched in contemporary pale green plain wraps, some corners turned, several blank edges a bit worn. Very Good. NAIP says the Pocket almanack was "presumably calculated by Nathaniel Low." It provides a comprehensive view of cultural, political, and social life in..... More
Newbury-Port: Printed and Sold by John Mycall. . . 1781. 12 leaves [complete]. Stitched, 12 leaves [complete]. Light to moderate foxing. Lower corner of last leaf with a partially repaired tear and affecting two or three letters. Good+. With information on "How to cure the Itch," "To cure the Rheumatism,"..... More
Newbury-Port: Printed and Sold by John Mycall, and Draper & Folsom of Boston, [1778]. Stitched, 12 leaves as issued. Light wear, Very Good. This scarce Revolutionary-era almanac issued from Boston as well as Newburyport. Ours is "identical in content with the Draper & Folsom (Boston, 1778) edition, except that the..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, Sold by him in Worcester...and at the Boston Bookstore; and by other Booksellers in Boston, [1794]. [48] pp. Stitched and untrimmed, as issued, with some loosening. Generously margined, with some chipping at blank extremities. Woodcuts. Very Good. This is the first of two editions printed in..... More