Lot 62
Bellerson, Philip
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
An Almanacke for the yeere of our Lord God, 1624. [with] Johnson, John. A New almanacke, and prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, 1624. [with] Hawkins, George. An Almanacke, and prognostication, for the yeare of our Lord God, 1624. [with] Vaux, John. A New almanacke and prognostication, for the yeare of our Lord God, 1624. London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1624. 8vo. 4 works (2 in 2 parts) in one volume, mainly Black letter, some Roman, Almanacks printed in red and black, title of Bellerson within unusual ornamental woodcut border with seasons at corners overprinted in red [McKerrow and Ferguson 206b], other almanacks and prognostications within typographical borders (2 overprinted in red), 3 Anatomical Man woodcuts (1 overprinted in red), 1 diagram, typographical and woodcut ornaments throughout, modern half calf with gilt lettering, plain boards, Bellerson lacks second part, Johnson and Hawkins final leaf, and Vaux the Prognostication, large faint water stain throughout Vaux and Johnson's Prognostication, Hawkins' title very dusty, some margins cropped, last leaf with short worm trail and restored at margins
Footnote
Note: STC 414, 465.12, 456, and 522.4 all record 2 copies only of each (British Library and Lambeth Palace), and none in USA. For Bellerson see: Mackerrow & Ferguson 206b. Not in NUC; for Hawkins NUC Newberry copy only; for Vaux, not in NUC. None in Grolier or Pforzheimer.
A collection of extremely rare almanacks. The first, Bellerson's lacks 'A short discourse of the yeere'. The second, 'Compiled and written according to the true rules of lawfull Art, by John Johnson Teacher of Arithmetick and Geometry in the City of London', was also composed according to the latitude and meridian of London (but valid for the whole of Great Britain), with the same contents - apart from the Anatomical Man - and similar health notes at the top of each month. The third almanack, by George Hawkins, is 'Calculated for the Meridian and Latitude of Cirencester in Gloucestrer-shire' (but intended 'for all the South and West parts of England, & without sencible error for all England'). The fourth, by John Vaux, Curate of St. Hellen, Aukland, unlike the previous almanacks, conatins a one page chronology of importany hoistorical events from the Creation to "ill Lady day in Lent."
Provenance: Bookplate of E. F. Bosanquet on pastedown.