Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BROADSIDE.) Goold, Gardner. A Perpetual Almanack, by which may be found in a few seconds of time the Day of the Week or Month in any Year to come. Broadside, engraved by J. Akin and printed in blue ink with decorative penmanship flourishes by Goold. 133/4x181/2 inches, trimmed close; chips at corners with loss, edge tears with minor loss. Portland, ME: G. Goold, 1805

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Just the second broadside perpetual calendar produced in America, preceded only by the unobtainable broadside published by James Franklin in 1730 (Bristol B835). This calendar quite rare, with only a handful of institutional holdings. Drake 1968; Shaw & Shoemaker 8545.