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Calendrier perpétuel rendu sensible, et mis à la portée de tout le monde, ou, Nouveau et vrai calendrier perpétuel : dont chacun peut se servir comme d'un almanach ordinaire, & sans aucun calcul, précédé d'un traité succint de tout ce qui a rapport au calendrier / par M.G.S.H.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AY831 .Z7 1774
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs--Early works to 1800.
- Almanacs.
- Ephemerides--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Ephemerides.
- Perpetual calendars--Early works to 1800.
- Perpetual calendars.
- Genre:
- Early works
- Handbooks and manuals
- Volvelles.
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages, leaves 97-107 [that is, 108], pages 108-110, [3] pages, [5] folded leaves of plates, [4] pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations, tables ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Calendrier perpétuel rendu sensible, et mis à la portée de tout le monde
- Nouveau et vrai calendrier perpétuel
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P. Fr. Gueffier, libraire-imprimeur, rue de la Harpe, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
- Notes:
- Author (M.G.S.H.) unknown.
- Signatures: A-D¹² [E]¹² [F]² [G]1 (gathering [E] signed D throughout).
- Leaves of text numbered as follows: 97, 98, 100, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 105, 107, 107.
- Woodcut tail-pieces.
- Type ornament head-pieces.
- Title and text within ruled borders.
- Errata on leaf [F]1r.
- Includes three volvelles with titles: "Concordance perpétuelle du cycle solaire avec les lettres dominicales", "Concordance perpétuelle des nombres d'or avec les nombres d'épacte", & "Tableau de concordance perpétuelle des dénominations des jours avec les lettres dominicales".
- The final calendar section, headed "Table des fêtes mobiles", is printed on leaves pasted together in pairs, each with a cut-out for a moveable paper slip printed with the days of the week.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: paper slips for page 96 (table for Lent and Easter) and leaf 102 (table for month of June) wanting.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.
- Kislak Center copy has illegible early manuscript inscription on title leaf.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Deborah Coltham Rare Books.
- Kislak Center copy: binding: "contemporary mottled calf, spine attractively tooled in gilt with red morocco label, with triple ruled border, all edges gilt, appealing decorative endpapers, head and tail of spine chipped with loss, lower joint split at tail but holding firm, corners somewhat worn"--Bookseller's description.
- Kislak Center copy: "Lightly browned throughout with some occasional faint dampstaining visible in places, some of the plates a little creased, with small burn mark to plate 3, and with some of the pairs no longer fully pasted together, with small tear with lost of five saints' names on April table"--Bookseller's description.
- OCLC:
- 1190945791
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