Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.

1 volume<br/>6 leaves first & last blank. tall 12mo. 121/2 x ; 5 cm Original boards.

Buchin, Matthias.

1 volume<br/>28 leaves 4to. 21 x ; 14 cm 18th century quarter calf binding. A leaf or leaves are probably wanting between folios 4/5 and 26/27. Paper. Some leaves slightly defective and margins frayed: the figures on folios 6r, 10r, 18r, 21r, 24v, 26r are rubbed and defaced.

Heymandus de Veteri Busco, Ars computistica, with astrological and divinatory material.

1 volume<br/>7 vellum leaves, in a green and pink embroidered textile binding lined with purple velvet. Paper label tipped in after foleave 7. Binding measures 38 x 160 mm; leaves when folded measure 38 x 119 mm; leaves when unfolded measure 106 x 236 mm. Lacks the calendar leaf that would have covered July-September. Each leaf is folded three times and when opened out contains six rectangular compartments. Headings on verso, and text occasionally runs over onto verso. Written in brown, red, dark red, blue and purple ink with gold leaf. Each calendar month opens with a gilt 'KL' with purple penwork. Foleave 1: Calendar to the table of movable feasts, with large gilt initial 'A'. Foleave 2: Calendar for January-March. Foleave 3: Calendar for April-June. Foleave 4: Calendar for October-December. Foleave 5: Table of the planetary hours and degrees of the moon, with large miniature of the Zodiac Man in blue, red, dark red and brown ink with gilt border. Foleave 6: Lunar eclipses (second, third and fourth cycles) with diagrams in red and brown ink and gilt. Foleave 7: Solar eclipses with diagrams in blue, red and brown ink with gilt; first cycle of lunar eclipses with diagrams in red and brown ink with gilt.

English folding almanac in Latin.

1 volume<br/>7 leaves folio. 27.5 x ; 17 cm [folded to 14 x 5 cm] On vellum, sewn in original limp vellum cover. The original folio-size sheets have been folded double, and then in three, and the vellum cover added to fit the smaller format. At the top of the cover is a vellum tag so that the MS. could be suspended by a cord from a girdle.

Folding Almanac, late 15th century, including calendar information and medical summaries.

cx, 846 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Les almanachs français : bibliographie-iconographie des almanachs, années, annuaires, calendriers, chansonniers, étrennes, états, heures, listes, livres d'adresses, tableaux, tablettes et autres publications annuelles éditées à Paris (1600-1895) / John Grand-Carteret.

Pierce's memorandum and account book : designed for farmers, mechanics and all people who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference / a present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association.

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Pierce's memorandum and account book : designed for farmers, mechanics and all people who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference / a present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Buchin, Matthias.

Heymandus de Veteri Busco, Ars computistica, with astrological and divinatory material.

English folding almanac in Latin.

Folding Almanac, late 15th century, including calendar information and medical summaries.

Les almanachs français : bibliographie-iconographie des almanachs, années, annuaires, calendriers, chansonniers, étrennes, états, heures, listes, livres d'adresses, tableaux, tablettes et autres publications annuelles éditées à Paris (1600-1895) / John Grand-Carteret.

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Pierce's memorandum and account book : designed for farmers, mechanics and all people who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference / a present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Buchin, Matthias.

Heymandus de Veteri Busco, Ars computistica, with astrological and divinatory material.

English folding almanac in Latin.

Folding Almanac, late 15th century, including calendar information and medical summaries.

Les almanachs français : bibliographie-iconographie des almanachs, années, annuaires, calendriers, chansonniers, étrennes, états, heures, listes, livres d'adresses, tableaux, tablettes et autres publications annuelles éditées à Paris (1600-1895) / John Grand-Carteret.

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