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Lot 854
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$500 -
700
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$1,125
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[ALMANACS]. A sammelband of 18th century American almanacs, including The Pennsylvania Alamanack, Poor Will's Almanack, Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, and Poor Richard Improved. 1789-1800.
TIME, Mark, pseudo. The Pennsylvania Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1789. Philadelphia: Eleazer Oswald, [1789]. -- [WARING, William]. Poor Will's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1796. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, [1795]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, For the Year of Our Lord, 1796. Philadelphia; Zachariah Poulson, Junior, [1795]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, For the Year of Our Lord, 1797. Philadelphia; Zachariah Poulson, [1796]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and country Almanac, For the Year of Our Lord, 1798. Philadelphia; Zachariah Poulson, [1797]. -- SAUNDERS, Richard. Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack...For the Year of our Lord 1798. Philadelphia: Hall & Sellers, [1797]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, for the Year of our Lord, 1799. Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, [1798]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, for the Year of our Lord, 1800. Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, [1799]. -- SHOEMAKER, Abraham. Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, for the Year of our Lord, 1801. Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, [1800].
8vo (100 x 169 mm). Wood engravings, including to Poulson's title pages. (Toning, occasional brown spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf, spine rebacked in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands. Provenance: John Blakely (manuscript contents page and ownership inscriptions throughout).
Aa sammelband of scarce almanacs with a manuscript contents page and extensive notes throughout by its compiler, John Blakely. He has also bound in manuscript poems including "The Almanc's Vindication" and "The Judgment Hymn."


