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Two almanacs, one for business people and one for night watchmen,
in a striking contemporary silver-tooled baroque binding

DAM, Dirk Jansz. van. Almanach, d'erven stichters comptoir op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, als mede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1770].
With: [ALMANAC]. Schutters wagt-almanach, anno 1771, aanwijsende wat compagnien, en op wat nagt zy te zamen waken moeten, om de vijftiende nagt. Nevens een ordre wat posten yder heeft te besetten. Onder de E. E. Heeren Colonellen Jacob Elias. Arent Hartjes. Theodorus Wynants. Hendr. Balth. van Aalst. en S. J. B. Barchm. Wuytiers.Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichters, [1770]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, a large coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title-page of ad 2, and 12 half-page woodcuts, one for each month, printed in red and black in ad 1. Contemporary elaborately silver-tooled vellum, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam in the centre of the front board, and an impression of three drummers on the back, both signed "Duisburg F[ecit]", both boards with a baroque ornamental border, with the coats of arms of each of the seven Dutch provinces at the top (with that of Holland prominently in the middle), the coats of arms of the 20 largest Dutch cities on the sides (Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen on the left side; Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer on the right side), and at the bottom an image that probably shows the transfer of goods near a city. [32]; [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Unrecorded 1712 almanac in an elaborately gold-tooled binding with a silver pin fastening, by the Amsterdam Art Book Bindery

DAM, Jan Albertsz. van. Nieuw geinventeerde koopmans comptoir- en schrijf-almanach, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren J. Christi M DCC XII. Na de nieuwe styl. Versien met de jaarmarkten, paarde- beeste- en leer-markte, en de dageliksche uure van de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of Albert Magnus, [1711 (for the year 1712)]. 12mo. Printed in red and black throught, the title page with Magnus' woodcut device (Atlas with an armillary sphere on his shoulders), numerous typographical symbols in the text: for example a horse and a goat representing horse and other animal market days, moons in different phases, planetary signs and manicules (pointing hands). With a small etching of an angel (39 mm tall) holding a wreath, cut out of an unidentified source and loosely inserted between 2 blank pages at the end of the book. Contemporary, elaborately gold-tooled mottled calf over thin wooden boards by the so-called Art Book Bindery (1705-1741) in the style made famous by Albert Magnus himself, with more than 100 impressions of about a dozen stamps and one roll, gold-tooled board edges. Further with 4 silver anchor plates (2 on each board), each with the coat of arms of the States of Holland in a decorative cartouche, and each with a silver eye extending over the fore edge, with a silver combination stylus/lead pencil used to fasten the book through the eyes, gilt edges. [120] pp. bound with 46 blank free endleaves: [12] pp. at the front and [22 (coated paper)], [12] pp. at the back. Full description
€ 7,500
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Stichter’s comptoir almanac for 1788 in an Amsterdam VOC binding

DAM, Meyndert Dirksz. van. D'erven Stichters comptoir almanach, op t schrikkel-jaar onses heeren Jesu Christi, 1788 ...
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1788]. 4to. With the title page and 23 calendar pages printed in red and black, a half-page woodcut vignette (depicting Father Time pointing at an armillary sphere) by Hendrik Numan on the title page and 12 half-page woodcut illustrations for the 12 months (each ca. 7 x 11 cm) by Hendrik Numan, nearly all signed in the block (including two dated "1779"). Contemporary gold-tooled brown mottled calf, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date "Anno 1788", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners. [16] ll. interleaved with 24 blank (except for manuscript annotations) ll. Full description
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The well-known "Enkhuizer Almanac" for the year 1819, with an article on vaccination

GELDER, Jacob van. De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.
Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back. [252] pp. Full description
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One of the earliest recorded copies of the Deventer almanac

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.
(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back. [32] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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Unrecorded issue

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.
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(2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.
(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.
(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.
[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges. [80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leaves Full description
€ 3,250
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Extremely rare and early almanac in a remarkable binding

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't Jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi M.DC.LXXXI. na de Nieuwe en Oude-stijl. Versien met de jaer-marckten, paerde, beeste- en leer-marckten: daer neven een prognosticatie, op alle nieuwe, volle en quartier-maenden. De dagelijkse uuren van des maens op en onder-gangh door Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, mathematicus. Mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Hollant in 's Graven-Hage, Utrecht, Vrieslandt, Groeningen, en de Stadt Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Zaagman, [1680]. 4to. With the title and calendar printed in red and black, a large woodcut view of the Amsterdam stock-exchange on the title page, 12 large woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each month, depicting the main activities practised during this month), a small woodcut of an eclipse and a larger woodcut of a Zodiac man. Contemporary silver-tooled vellum, with on the front a central panel with a maid carrying a lance next to a book (the Bible?) on a column, and on the back a central panel with three drummers, both surrounded by an elaborate large frame block with the coat-of-arms of Holland in the "garden" of the Dutch Republic flanked by the other provincial arms at the top (the arms of the major Dutch cities at the left and right and a view of Amsterdam from the IJ at the bottom). [16] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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How to calculate longitude at sea

SWINDEN, Jan Hendrik van, Pieter NIEUWLAND and Gerard HULST VAN KEULEN. Almanach ten dienste der zeelieden voor het jaar 1788.
Including:
(2) Over het bepalen der lengte op zee door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of vaste sterren, ...(3) Van tafelen, ten dienste der zeelieden, en voor al ter bevordering van het bepaalen der lengte op zee, door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of de vaste sterren; ...
Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1787-1788. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With three title pages with woodcut printer's device, mathematical figures in the text, letterpress tables, and 4 large printed folding tables. Contemporary half vellum. XXX, 108, 87, [1]; XXIII, 136; [4], 30, [2], 60 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Extremely rare satirical print series lampooning Louis XIV with the total eclipse of the Sun King,
showing 1 major and at least 3 minor variants not recorded in the literature

[ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke almanach: beginnende met den aanvang der oorlog, van anno 1701 .... Waer in duydelijk de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid, met zyn eclipsen, of de regtvaardige straf des heemels, door XVIII zinnbeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word; ... | Almanach royal. Commencant[!] avec la guere de l'an 1701 jusques .... ou est exactement observé le cours du soleil d'injustice; avec ses eclips; ou la juste punition du ciel. Demonstré dans XVIII emblemes. ...
"Paris" [= Amsterdam], "imprimé â limprimerie royale du Petit Louis" [= Carel Allard, 1706?]. Small folio (32 x 21 cm). Engraved print series with an engraved title page and 24 engraved prints (9 single-page and 15 double-page; 18 bound in and 6 loosely inserted), the double-page prints with extensive letterpress text flanking and/or below the engraving. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Engraved title plus [25] engraved plates., some with letterpress text. Full description
€ 8,750
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