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Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![24 210 Z11 212 213 214 215 216 217 219 MARKS & CO., United States—continued. ALMANAC,.—Tay.Lor (Jacos) A COMPLEAT EPHEMERIS for the year of Christ 1726. Exhibiting the Datty Motions of the SUN and Moon, and other Planets, the Daily Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon, the Course of the Tydes, Lunations, Length of the Days, and Eclipses, &c. . . . To which is added, by another Hand, Calculations and Infallible Predictions on the Eclipse of the Sun, &c., with a brief introduction towards learning the Hebrew and other Tongues, with several other useful informing and diverting Subjects, not to be found in any other Almanack in AMERICA, 48 pages, sin. 8vo., un- bound, Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel Keimer, and sold by Mary Rose... Safad £5/5/- A very defective copy, having the larger portion of the title-page and the first 20 pages torn or eaten away. ‘These being supplied by photographic facsimile in loose sheets. This copy has been interleaved, and, is defective in common with the printed portion, but many interesting contemporary diary entries remain. From the entries it appears that the notes are made by a Farmer, as they include costs of seeds, planting of wheat, Barley, and vegetables, purchase of farming gear, harness for horses, etc. Evans’ American Bibliography cites the Almanac as No. 2708, but gives no location of a copy. The records of copies sold by auction relate to those published in 1741 or 1744, and show only three in all being disposed of, during 1920-23. “* All but the Calculations were compiled and written by Samuel Keimer. Taylor dis- owned the work, and denounced the author of the ‘lying pamphlet’ in a published advertisement.” AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, from January, 1869, to April, 1883 (Vols. XI. to XX., parts, 8vo., wrappers, 1869-83 £3/3/- Contributions on Philology, Natural and Physical Sciences, &c. ANNUAL REPORT (SEVENTEENTH) of the COMPTROLLER of the CURRENCY to the SECOND SESSION of the FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, December 1, 1879, with tables, &c., 8vo., cloth, Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 1879 6/- ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK (JournaL), Vol. 1, No. 1 (? all published), containing Contributions by Dr. PAUL BRocA ; PROF. CHARLES Rau; E. G. SQUIER ; J. W. Warp ; D. C. JONES, Junr. ; and PROF. MENGARINI, 2/lustrated, 8vo., wrap- pers, New York, 1871-72 10/- We are unable to trace any further parts as being published. ART.—SHELDON (GEORGE WILLIAM) RECENT IDEALS of AMERICAN ART, with 175 repro- ductions of oil paintings and water-colours in the galleries of private collectors, reproduced in photogravure and typogravure, roy. folio, half morocco, g.e., New York [1890] 15/- ART.—STEINWAY COLLECTION (THE) of PAINTINGS by AMERICAN ARTISTS [N. C. WYETH, JOHN C. JOHANSEN, ERNEST BLUMENSCHEIN, HARVEY DUNN, CHARLES E. CHAMBERS, HENRY McCCARTER, CARL ANDERSON, HARRY ‘TOWNSEND, F. Louis Mora and A. I. KELLER]; together with Prose Portraits of the Great Composers [CHOPIN, WAGNER, Liszt, BEETHOVEN, &c.], by JAMES HUNEKER, 12 reproductions in colour, beautifully printed on French handmade paper, with ornamental woodcut borders, head-pieces, &c., 4to., orig. boards [New York], 1919 18/- This is the last published work of James Huneker. AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES, American Naturalist) LIFE and ADVENTURES, edited, from Materials supplied by his Widow, by ROBERT BUCHANAN, portrait, 8vo., cloth, 1868 8/- Birps of AMERICA ; Plate No. CCCLVII. of the ORIGINAL IssuE, showing 2 figures of the American Magpie, 1. Male, 2. Female ; mounted on stout cardboard, and measuring 2 ft. 9.6 in. by 2 ft. 2 in. ; engraved, printed, and coloured, by R. Havell, 1837 £8/-/- AUTOGRAPHS.—MapiGan (THomMasS F.) Worpd SHADOWS of the GREAT: the Lure of Autograph Collecting [containing Chapters on the Hobby, Notable Collectors and Collec- tions, American Literary Autographs ; Two great American Manuscripts : Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, ‘‘ The Raven,” and Abraham Lincoln’s “‘ Gettysburg Address ” ; Auto- graphs of the Presidents of the United States ; etc.], with 41 reproductions in half-tone and 12 in line, roy. 8vo., orig. cloth, New York, 1930 12/-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859335_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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