Rare edition of the famous "Enkhuizer Almanak", for the year 1819. It starts with the calendar, the dates of holidays and markets held all over Holland, astronomical data (times of the sun and moon rises and tides; by the Leiden professor and Dutch mathematician Jacob de Gelder (1765-1848)), and a medical article on cow-pox, vaccination, and resuscitating drowned people. This is followed by prognostications for each month by Don Antonio Magino, a print series on various professions within the field of agriculture (milking cows, churning butter, and making cheese), anecdotes, funny stories, and riddles, a natural history in yearly instalments, household medicines, advices, and a short chronicle of the most important events since 1810. The present volume also has two extra leaves inserted with a statement by the Dutch Educational Society "Tot Nut van 't Algemeen", listing the quires they contributed to the almanac, and signed by the secretary, Hendrik Ravekes. We have not been able to find any other copies of the 1819 edition.
The wrappers are frayed around the edges and torn on the spine. The upper sewing support has broken, so a few quires are partly detached, mild foxing and thumbing on some of the leaves. Otherwise in good condition. Saalmink p. 415; not in Vandenhole; WorldCat.