Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 466

Price Realized: $ 115
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
Elliot's Washington Pocket Almanac . . . 1826. 64 pages. 12mo, publisher's boards with a paper label, minor loss to bottom right corner of front cover; minor split along joint; tape reinforcement on rear hinge; signed on the cover and on an interior leaf by L. Woodbury (presumably New Hampshire Senator Levi Woodbury.) Washington, [1825]

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Washington, D.C. almanacs are uncommon, with not a single 19th century one in the famed Phelps collection. The first almanac printed in D.C. was published in 1806 (with a few published earlier in Georgetown); Elliot's almanacs began with the 1824 edition. The almanac includes descriptions of all the Federal offices and listings of the boarding houses where each member of Congress, including Levi Woodbury, lived.