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Dutch (Amsterdam) Almanac for 1771 in interesting vellum binding tooled in silver and signed by 'Duisburg'

DAM, Dirk Jansz. van.
Almanach, d'Erven Stichters Comptoir --, op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, alsmede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang, door Dirk Jansz. van Dam.

With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black.

With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black.

With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black.

With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black.

With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black.



Amsterdam, Heirs of the widow Cornelis Stichter, (1770). 4to. Contemporary vellum, elaborately tooled in silver: a wide border with baroque ornaments (or frame block) with the coat-of arms of the Seven United Provinces of the Dutch Republic at the top with that of Holland in a courtyard in the middle, 20 coat-of-arms of the Dutch cities at either side (left: Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem; Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda; Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen; right: Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort; Arnhem, Nijmegen; Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer), and at the bottom an image that seems to depict the transfer of goods near a city on the see with at the right several music instruments. In the centre of the front cover there is the crowned coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in a baroque design, supported by two lions, and in the centre of the back cover is an impression of three drummers in a baroque frame. The frame block is signed  "Duisburg F(ecit)" by the cutter. With woodcut printer's device with motto 'Indefessus agendo' on the title and 12 half-page woodcuts for the 12 months; printed in red and black. (16) lvs

With:
(2) SCHUTTERS wagt-almanach, Anno 1771, Aanwijsende wat Compagnien, en op wat nagt zy te zamen waken moeten, om de vijftiende nagt. Nevens een ordre wat posten yder heeft te besetten.. Onder de E.E. Heeren Colonellen Jacob Elias. Arent Hartjens. Theodorus Wynants. Hendr. Balth. van Aalst. en S.J.B. Barchm. Wuytiers. Amsterdam, Heirs of the widow od Cornelis Stichter, (1770). 4to. With a large coat-of-arms of Amsterdam on the title. (4) lvs.

The very popular almanac for the year 1771 published by the House of (the heirs of) Cornelis Stichter at Amsterdam. The 'Comptoir' or 'Office' almanac, intended for merchants, business men and office personnel, belonged to the oldest Dutch almanacs. Originally yearly published in various sizes, the present almanac is printed in the large 4to-variant. The almanac was composed by Dirk Jansz. van Dam, and consists of an extensive interleaved calendar divided over 12 leaves - the calendar of each month facing a page with the half-page woodcut for that month - containing the days of the month indicating the phases of the moon and the days on which, and where in the Netherlands, there will be held cattle-, horse- and leather markets. Each month starts with a poem of four lines and contains also a Prognostication and some historical facts which have taken place in that month in the previous decades. After the calendar follow the privilege and annual information, like the dates of the official holidays, time-tables for the closing of the city-gates, the departure of postal services and passenger coaches and barges, tariff-lists of seals, etc.
Ad 2: After the calendar follows under a separate title (Anno 1771. Schutters wacht Almanack ...). This rare extra added quire of four leaves gives the full time-tables and posts for the year 1771 for the sixty companies of the Amsterdam night watchmen, more than a century after Rembrandt completed his 'Nightwatch': "Provisioneele ordre en aanwysinge van de hooftwagten en andere posten voor de zestig compagnien burgers der stad Amsterdam".
Storm van Leeuwen mentions one Almanacs, also a 'd'Erven Stichters comptoir almanac', for the year 1782, which is bound in the same whitish vellum with exactly the same silver tooling as is our copy. Perhaps the binding served as New Year's gift from the Amsterdam civic guard. Another copy of this type of binding - but without its content - is preserved in the British Library, London.

Very good interleaved copy.
Ad 1: Waller 67; ad binding: Storm van Leeuwen, DDB I, p. 753 and fig. 261 on p. 751.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Almanacs & Calendars  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Dutch 

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