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1815 Almanac With A Print of George Washington & More
1815, "The United States Almanac; Being the Third After Leap Year... Calculated by William Collom," Philadelphia: Thomas M. Longstreth, Choice Very Fine.
This is a truly great early Almanac that is 48 pages, measures 7.5" x 4.5" and is illustrated with a large 3.5" x 2.75" oval portrait of George Washington on its title page. In addition, there are some useful tables on the Value and Weight of Coins, other Foreign Coins and Federal Money, Rates of Exchange for Pennsylvania Currency, the American Standard of Money Approved by Act of Congress, April 10, 1806 including Gold Eagles and other Silver coins and an outstanding woodblock engraved figural print titled: "The Anatomy of the Man's Body as Governed by the Twelve Constellations." Almanac features original wrappers, nicely rebound inside hard pictorial boards, with a paper spine label and new endpapers. The head of the spine is slightly chipped, foot and corners bumped, and overall very clean and nice. Throughout the contents are a bit darkened with faint foxing, and there is light dampstaining to the title page. One series of original ink notations by an original owner along the bottom selvage of several internal pages reads: "I put my Cow to pasture to Arthur St. Clairs the 22nd of May 1815 - The Cow took the Bull the 1st of July 1815 - Left pasture with A St Clair 19th and put to Peter Dager the 20th of Sept. 1815 - Quit pasture with Peter Dager the 26th of November 1815."
Arthur St. Clair was a President of the Continental Congress, Major General in the Continental Army, first Governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair commanded large force of Americans that was badly defeated by the Miami Indians in crucial battle near Ft. Wayne on Nov. 4, 1791. He died in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1818.
1815 Almanac With A Print of George Washington & More
1815, "The United States Almanac; Being the Third After Leap Year... Calculated by William Collom," Philadelphia: Thomas M. Longstreth, Choice Very Fine.
This is a truly great early Almanac that is 48 pages, measures 7.5" x 4.5" and is illustrated with a large 3.5" x 2.75" oval portrait of George Washington on its title page. In addition, there are some useful tables on the Value and Weight of Coins, other Foreign Coins and Federal Money, Rates of Exchange for Pennsylvania Currency, the American Standard of Money Approved by Act of Congress, April 10, 1806 including Gold Eagles and other Silver coins and an outstanding woodblock engraved figural print titled: "The Anatomy of the Man's Body as Governed by the Twelve Constellations." Almanac features original wrappers, nicely rebound inside hard pictorial boards, with a paper spine label and new endpapers. The head of the spine is slightly chipped, foot and corners bumped, and overall very clean and nice. Throughout the contents are a bit darkened with faint foxing, and there is light dampstaining to the title page. One series of original ink notations by an original owner along the bottom selvage of several internal pages reads: "I put my Cow to pasture to Arthur St. Clairs the 22nd of May 1815 - The Cow took the Bull the 1st of July 1815 - Left pasture with A St Clair 19th and put to Peter Dager the 20th of Sept. 1815 - Quit pasture with Peter Dager the 26th of November 1815."
Arthur St. Clair was a President of the Continental Congress, Major General in the Continental Army, first Governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair commanded large force of Americans that was badly defeated by the Miami Indians in crucial battle near Ft. Wayne on Nov. 4, 1791. He died in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1818.
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Autographs-Coins-Currency-Americana
9:00 AM PT - Feb 17th, 2008
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Early American
P.O. Box 3507
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
