Description

4º. Wood-cut title page printed in red and black. 28 ff., 32pp., 14 ff. Comtemporary blind stamped full calf binding with contemporary green linen ties. (Binding slighty rubbed, with some tiny worm holes in the back. Some leaves slighty-age-toned and/or with light foxing, low edges trimmed in the middle part oft he book otherwise in a good condition. Year on the front page corrected from MDCCVI to MDCCXVI).

Beautiful rare calander for the year 1716, printed in Prague, with the title page and the calander leaves printed in red and black, was bound together with blank pages as a note-book and was dedicated (as indicated in the hand-written note) to a lawyer Johannes Adrianus von Plencken (Joannes Adrianus Pleinc, 1635 in Warburg – 1719 Wroclaw) in Wroclaw, today’s Poland.The title page shows a small view of Prague and nine saints, including Saint Wenceslaus. Inserted blank leaves bear notes of expenses and donaitions.