Original and complete series of 12 volumes of an important literary almanac. The work contains a calendar, eclipses, phases of the moon and sun, the tides, market days and fairs, and postal and transportation facilities in the Province of Zealand, as well as historical accounts, reports, and stories and poems. The folding plates include a city view Zierikzee, castle Moermond near Renesse, the ruins of the monastery Bethlehem near Elkerzee, Castle Baarland (1840), Phases of the moon and eclipses, the monastery Sion near Noordgouwe, the bathhouse at Domburg, and the town-hall at Hulst in the 16th century and in 1845.
Many of the short stories and poems were written by well-known 18th and 19th-century Dutch authors, such as Petronella Moens (1762-1843), Jacobus Bellami (1757-1786), and Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1815-1897). Another regular contributor was the minister Hendrik Marinus Christiaan van Oosterzee (1806-1877), who was the main editor, together with J. Berman. Van Oosterzee lived at Elkerzee on the island Schouwen from 1830-1844 and later at Oirschot. In 1840 he became member of the Zeeuws Genootschap. In later years he edited the well-known yearbook Nehallennia (1849-1850 and the Jaarboek Zeeland (1852-1856).
With a shelf mark label on the spine of each volume, and a deaccession stamp from the Openbare bibliotheek Arnhem on the title page. The wrappers are frayed and creased, with some losses, the spines have been rubbed, with some loss of material, the 1838, 1839, and 1841 issues have been rebound, with the original wrappers mounted on the front board. The leaves are somewhat browned and foxed, 2 of the plates are torn, the spine of the 1841 issue has broken, but the work is still complete, the final volume is printed by a different publisher and therefore of a slightly larger size, the 1837 issue still with the original prospectus leaf included. Otherwise in good condition. Jaarb. Maatsch. Nederl. Letterk. 1878, pp. 69-1877 (biography and list of his works); NNBW, III, col. 936; Vandenhole p. 165 (only the 1845 and 1846 issues).