Vollstandige Erklarung des Calenders, mit einem fasslichen Unterricht uber die Himmelskorper, insbesondere uber die Sonne und der sich um sie bewegenden Planeten. In drey Abtheilungen mit versinnlichenden Abbildungen
Reading (Pennsylvania): Johann Ritter & Comp. 1830. Hardcover. 1/2 leather with original worn boards, applied red leather spine label with title. viii, 315, [1] pp. with 8 engraved plates, two of which are folding. Page 293 mis-numbered 276. Good, unifrom foxing to pages, slight rounding to cover corners. Binding is tight. Item #155070
A Calendar of Astronomy written and typeset in the Old German used in the Pennsylvania German style. Plates collate as follows: Frontis (P. I), Folding plate facing p. 78 (Fig. 1, P. VII), plate facing p. 131 (Figs. 5+6, P. IV), Folding plate facing p. 144 (Fig. 2, P. II), plate facing p. 175 (Fig. 3+4, P. III), plate facing p. 181 (Fig. 10, P. VIII), plate facing p. 225 (Fig. 7, P. VI), plate facing p. 280 (Fig. 8+9, P. V).
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