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
Lancaster, 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. 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 and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1768]. 12mo. 12 leaves (complete), stitched, untrimmed. Uniform tanning, some light spotting. Good+. This Almanac discourses on the manufacture of silk and the five eclipses that will occur during the year; lists roads and distances to and from various New England..... More
New London: Printed and Sold by T. Green, [1768]. 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Tanning, light to moderate wear, one leaf trimmed closely [touching but not costing text]. Good+. With a paper-maker's advertisement at page [20], and an advertisement for a ferry and tavern at page [24]. An article is included..... More
Boston; New-England: J. Draper, for the Booksellers, 1752. 16pp, stitched. Uniformly browned. Very Good. With an essay on the calendar. Evans 6807. Drake 3092. ESTC W29767. More
Boston, New-England: J. Draper, for the Booksellers, [1754]. 8 leaves (complete). Stitched. Upper right quadrant spotted, small hole in last leaf affects a couple of letters. Else Good+. On page14, above the details for December, the Almanac reads: "WHO 'ere presum'd, till FRANKLIN led the Way, / to climb the..... More
Boston, New-England: J. Draper, for the Booksellers, [1753]. 8 leaves (complete). Stitched, dusted, text lightened on last page. Good+. "I have fill'd the two last Pages with an Essay upon Regimen." "The writer refers to the great number of deaths caused by the 'throat distemper or Pestilence Ulcusculosa'." [Guerra.] This..... 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. Tanned with some toning and fading, 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..... 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
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
Philadelphia: Bennett & Walton, [1818]. [36] pp, engraved title page. Original plain wrappers [some wear, two short tape repairs], stitched. Tanned and foxed. Short closed tear to fore-edge of title page repaired with archival tape, one leaf of text trimmed closely at foredge [no text loss]. Early ink notation in..... 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
Boston: Printed and Sold by Samuel Hall, [1793]. [36] pp, as issued. Stitched. Lightly foxed, else Very Good, with an elaborate cut at page [3] of The Twelve Constellations, with the Anatomy of the Human Body. Carleton explains some of his calculations and data, "hearing that some disapprove of the..... More
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Cleveland: A. Bailey, Publisher, [1870]. 144pp, plus a purple unpaginated advertisement leaf. Light scattered foxing. Bound in original boards, the covers with advertisements from local merchants. Illustrated with many advertisements. Spine rubbed, front board detaching. Else Very Good. This is the Bailey firm's "New Business Directory of Cleveland ... supplying..... 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