Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NEW YORK--BUFFALO.) Group of early Buffalo almanacs. 11 volumes. 12mo, stitched, sewn, or disbound; various conditions, with some missing pages. Buffalo, NY, [1820-47]

Additional Details

Printing did not begin in Buffalo until 1812, and only a handful of ephemeral imprints are known before the first almanac appeared, the Western Almanack for 1820. This lot includes: Beers. The Western Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1821 [and 1822] Loud & Wilmarth. Astronomical Calendar, or Western Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1824 Buffalo Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1833 [and 1834] Steele's Buffalo Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1835 Steele's Western Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1838 [and 1839] Steele's Almanack for the Year 1844 Bristol's Free Almanac for 1845 Family Almanac and Franklin Calendar, 1848. Drake 6599, 6640, 6682, 7268, 7385, 7592, 7675, 8104, 8145, 8556. The 1833 Buffalo Almanac is not listed in Drake.