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A rare and most interesting almanac from the French and Indian War era. “More’s” almanac includes several items relevant to the War. The “Historical Account of the War in North-America continued from our last” is a triumphant summary of military events between the capture of Quebec in September 1759 and that of Montreal almost exactly a […]
The fatal riot of March 5, 1770, rebranded by Patriots as the Boston Massacre, was immediately seized on as a worthy subject for depiction in print. Paul Revere’s “Bloody Massacre” engraving, pirated from a drawing by artist Henry Pelham, was advertised the Boston press as early as March 26, while Pelham’s own version appeared a […]
A scarce Revolutionary-era patriotic almanac issued in Boston in the Fall of 1776, with a map of New York City. The patriotic content begins with the subtitle: “Being… the first Year of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, which began July fourth, 1776”… that is, less than four months before the almanac’s publication was announced on October 31. This […]
A rare Boston almanac from the pre-Revolutionary period, with a terrific Revere cartoon lampooning Governor Hutchinson. Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) was an eminent merchant, politican and historian in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, and served continuously as Lieutenant Governor and then Governor from 1758-1774. Though intelligent, competent, and rather fair minded, his conservative and Loyalist policies brought him into conflict […]
![A. B. de Périgord [i.e., Horace-Napoléon Raisson and Léon Thiessé], NOUVEL ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS, SERVANT DE GUIDE DANS LES MOYENS DE FAIRE EXCELLENTE CHÈRE. Deuxiéme Année. Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1826.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BRM3743-Almanach-des-gourmands-1836_map_lowres-scaled-e1620655321852-150x150.jpg)
A small volume of essays on food, food culture and related topics, illustrated by a charming gastronomic map of France. The Nouval almanach des gourmands provides a great deal of practical information on food and the acquisition thereof, ranging from advice on the proper sequence of courses to be served at table to curated lists […]
A scarce almanac featuring an allegorical woodcut celebrating the Federal Constitution. Note the trumpeting angel bearing a liberty cap in her left hand, the 13 columns in the portico, and the 13 stars in the arched ceiling. The Almanack would have been published in the Fall of 1791, just a few months after Rhode Island […]
An American almanac with an early and very rare plan of the siege of Yorktown. The small woodcut map is of considerable interest in the early mapping of the American Revolutionary War. It is the second plan of the battle printed in America, following that by Sebastian Bauman, and the only contemporary one to be directed […]