12mo. (13 x 9 cm.) 238 pp. Six engraved plates. Scarce, with only two copies located on OCLC. Soiling on the binding and more on the slipcase. Otherwise, quite clean and tight. View More...
Scarce, with only copy found on OCLC at the National Library of Sweden. 16mo. 107 by 88 mm. Unpaginated, 48 pp. Four hand-colored plates depicting a young couple. The plates capture the Biedermeier, high Romantic, sensibility perfectly. Lovely paper pastedown binding, with intricate combining of decorative motives we associate with the period. Moderate wear to the cover, with a distinct diagonal crease line in the upper corner. Still a handsome binding. View More...
Oblong, 65 by 87 mm. 8 pages, including wrap covers. Chromolithographic illustration on each page, after the title page, each depicting one of the seven ages. Two months covered each page, the months being shown as a column flanking the illustration. Scarce, with only two copies recorded on OCLC First Search -- Rochester Museum and Philadelphia Athenaeum. Not in Folger catalogue. View More...
Oblong, 8.5 by 15 cm. Eight stiff pages, with the day of the week stamp printed on top of seven of these pages, and one without such a stamp. The book was intended for erasable notes, and thus constant re-use, as a daily planner or the like. There are penciled notes within dated 1796, and thus our dating. The staples used to bind have a twist in the center -- we have never seen such staples before. With gilt turn-in decoration around the edge, and also a slipcase with gilt decoration more or less the same. The booklet itself has moderate wear, rubbing and staining on its red morocco. The... View More...
32mo. 10 by 6 cm. 100 pp. With 29 illustrated plates, 17 of which are grouped preliminarily and cover the extravagant ladies' hair styles of the day, the remainder spaced in the first half the text and generally carrying two oval vignette portraits on each one. Preserved, besides the original stiff card boards and probably the original endpapers is the decorative slipcase with its wallpaper pattern-like design. Light to moderate edgewear on the slipcase. View More...
28 by 18 mm. 64 pp. With eight copper engraved plates. Welsh 221. Scarce (OCLC First Search shows copies only at Morgan, Arkansas, Virginia, Yale, Grolier). Publisher not given, but Marcilly. Gilt figurative decoration on front and rear board, and gilt ornamentation on spine. Light wear. View More...
Near miniature, 93 by 60 mm. Title, [6], 3-62, [4] pp. 13 copper engraved plates, including title page, of Romantic Age or classical scenes. Each of the plates is connected with the text which contains short dialogues and/or scenes, which we believe are all excerpted from operas, the principal one being the baroque "Les Amours de Diane et d'Endymion", a 17th century bucolic work composed by Jean de Granouilhet. First six pages and final four with tables typical of almanacs. Light wear to the leather. Scattered light soiling and/or foxing to the leaves. View More...
Scarce, with only known copy in BNF -- no other copies found on OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1816. Near miniature, 112 by 62 mm. 80 pp. Seven copper engraved portrait plates of the Bourbons restored to power following the Congress of Vienna. This quintessential lady's pocket book -- it resembles with its slipcase and other aspects the pretty almanacs produced by Janet, the publisher here, and Le Fuel during the Restoration period. This was seems to be a souvenir and celebration of the Restoration, and we have to think it was issued early during the period when hopes ran high and disill... View More...
Scarce, with a single copy found on OCLC at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. (We believe the BNF has a copy as well.) Anomalous is that this copy is shown as issued in 1819 yet our copy has the calendar for 1821, which suggests strongly an issuance in 1820. Either the OCLC listing is in error, or the same book was issued with eight new pages in its back. 18mo. 11.5 by 7.5 cm. 180, [8] pp. Hand-colored frontis, title page vignette, and ten other hand-colored plates of birds and mammals, all done exquisitely, and in this copy, with exceptional brightness. Indeed, the sharpness of the pla... View More...
Delightful Biedermeier era hand-colored plates depicting such things as blindman's bluff, pillow making, a shipwreck, each accompanying a verse text. 24mo. 10 by 8 cm. [xvi] 47 pp. With 15 hand-colored plates. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC outside of the Netherlands, and Harvard and the Morgan Library each have a single copy of another year from the series according to this database. Original printed boards are scuffed. Chipping to joints. Cracking of spine. Nice modern custom cloth clamshell box. View More...
A beautiful, highly decorative, diminutive early nineteenth century day planner notebook. 84 by 52 mm. 12 leaves, four of which are stiff card, pages of which, following the title, are devoted to a day of the week. Appended in the back is a fold-out calendar, with saints days, four small copper engraved images lining the top showing gentile men and women promenading, and copper engraved border decoration. This calendar is dated 1836, and thus our dating of 1835. It is possible, albeit unlikely, that this calendar was a later addition. The ambiguity derives from a penciled note giving a ... View More...
Miniature finger almanac measuring 690 by 280 mm. Unpaginated, with 27 leaves, twelve of which contain fine stippled copper engraved costume plates of Arab, Abyssinian or Indian dress. Also vignette on title page. Otherwise, following a short two page exegesis on the upcoming eclipses for 1817, a fairly typical table of days for the year furnishing the saint names associated with each day. Welsh 6591. Scarce, with no copies for this year found anywhere, and a single copy found for any year (1814) at the University of Michigan. With slipcase, which is sheathed in the same marbled paper as ... View More...
Miniature finger almanac measuring 690 by 280 mm. Unpaginated, with 27 leaves, twelve of which contain fine copper engraved costume plates of Turkish, Afgani, Uzbeki -- Central Asian -- dress. Also vignette on title page. Otherwise, following a short two page exegesis on the upcoming eclipses for 1819, a fairly typical table of days for the year furnishing the saint names associated with each day. Scarce, with no copies for this year found anywhere, and a single copy found for any year (1814) at the University of Michigan. Not listed on Welsh. With slipcase. Near Fine. View More...
Highly unusual paper fold almanac, shaped when open like a snowflake -- and meant to suggest a rose, obviously. Closing to two shaped panels, loosely approximating triangles, with chromolithograph images of roses. Scarce -- we were unable to locate any other copies of this one, and also more broadly, we are unaware of other such origami-like almanacs. We often enough see such paper as souvenirs for cities, bearing titles such as "The Washington Rose", with views of the city's landmarks on the petals, but not this variant with petals representing the months of the year. Open, 24 c... View More...
8vo. 21 by 16.5 cm. 32 pp., including cover wraps. Woodcut of American eagle emblem and farmers sowing field before buildings that look more German than American. Opens with an adventure of Russian sailors who landed on a desert island in 1743. Other stories follow, interspersed between the usual almanac astronomical, horoscope and calendar info. Travel and exploration seems to have been a running theme in this particular almanac, with a story about a New Englander going to Guinea in Africa, etc. Also a few witticisms and health tips. Two strips of scotch tape appended to binding. Roug... View More...
12 by 8 cm. 253, [14] pp. A number of brown and white plates of eighteenth century scenes. Condition: light soiling on paper pastedown of cover. View More...
Highly decorative full calf binding, with similarly decorative full calf slipcase as well. 32mo. 103 by 52 mm. 48 pp. Both the binding and the slipcase have elaborate gilt decoration -- floral motives, border swirls or rinceaus, a red oval centerpiece, etc. Some blotched stains on one side of the slipcase, and a few small stains elsewhere on the slipcase and the cover proper, with slight darkening overall on both. Still, both are highly ornamental and attractive. Clean and tight within. View More...
12mo. 10 by 7.5 cm. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. A Greenaway figure for each month, as well as color illustrations in the frontis, the title, verso of title, and seven color plates at end (including for seasons). LIght soiling and wear of the cover. View More...
12mo. (13 x 8 cm.) 240 pp., plus 12 hand-colored plates of roses and a calendar (1819) fold-out. The plates are rendered with minute detail. Neo-classical border and spine gilt decoration on binding as well as clipcase. Light soiling to the former, a bit heavier, on the slipcase. Toning around page edges; otherwise, generally clean and bright. View More...
Near Miniature, 80 by 53 mm. Unpaginated, 48 leaves. These include seven copper engravings, one being double paged. There are copies, not many, of this annual to be found on OCLC, but none for this year. The textual content is not quite the standard almanac fare. In this almanac weather predictions are furnished for days far in the future to when it was written. As these predictions were for whole weeks, though, they had to have been discounted as somewhat meaningless at the time. An expository piece concerns the postal service of Hamburg, which was then, as now, the largest city of the... View More...
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