Antiquariatsmesse Stuttgart 2021 - Katalog

Trusler combines a wealth of social and political information
with very practical advice to newcomers, such
as warnings against the dangers of pickpockets, pawnbrokers,
and strangers in general. Among the useful
information he includes lists of lawyers, courts, newspapers
published in London (daily, morning, evening
and weekly) but also carriages and their rates, postal
services, and services such as surgeons & physicians
(including men-midwives). A veritable treasure-trove
of information on eighteenth-century life in London.
– ESTC t93466; Goldsmiths’-Kress 13149.
Miniature Almanac
[Almanac London] – London Almanack for the
Year of Christ, 1787. The almanack explained. London,
Stationer’s Company, [1786]. 64mo, miniature
almanac (55 × 35 mm), ll. 26, engraved throughout,
printed on one side only and pasted back-to-back;
publisher’s red morocco, decoratively gilt, a. e. g.,
preserved in the original red morocco slip case with
design repeated; some light thumb marks at head
of binding; a charming survival, with tax stamp to
title. € 900,–
Miniature almanac for the year of 1787, published by
the Stationer’s Company with a charming double-page
illustration of the Apothecaries’ Hall at Black Friars
Lane, London, and information on the kings and
queens of England, the lord mayors and sheriffs from
1766 to 1787, holidays, coins, and an illustrated „Common
Notes“ page listing dates of movable feasts, etc.
The title is enclosed in a circle surrounding the arms
of the City of London. – ESTC t127696; Welsh, 4578;
Spielmann 314.
Life in London – a Guide
Trusler, John. The London Adviser and Guide:
containing every instruction and information useful
and necessary to persons living in London, and
coming to reside there. London, the author, 1786.
12mo, pp. xx, 191, [1]; with a map of the Royal
Exchange and numerous tables in the text, contemporary
full calf, rebacked with gilt-lettered spine
label. € 2000,–
First edition of this charming guide to life in London for
newcomers, foreigners and locals alike. Trusler gives extensive
information on the housing market, commerce,
trading – including a schematic map of the lay-out of
the Royal Exchange, so that newcomers may know
where to find relevant traders – as well as hotels and
restaurants, diversions and services. He explains in great
detail how to rent or buy accommodation, the merits of
fire insurance, the levels of house tax and the means to
secure water supplies. A long chapter is devoted to the
question of domestic servants, how and where to hire
them, with a warning against untrustworthy agencies
(register-offices or employment exchanges).
Bound in Red Velvet – Extra Illustrated
Wahn, Hermann. Hamburgisch-verbesserter
Schreib-Calender aufs 1747. Jahr: darin hiesige Gerichts-Tage,
Verlassungen, Predigten, Music und
Passion in allen 5 Haupt- und Neben-Kirchen, wie
auch Zucht- und Spinn-Hause, St. Georg, und St.
Pauli aufn Hamb. Berg; nebst Bericht der Fluth
und Ebbe des Elbestrohms, der Jahr-Märckte, und
des Post-Wesens. Hamburg, Conrad König, 1746.
32mo, (80 × 50 mm), interleaved copy, pp. [64],
printed in red and black, with one additional doublepage
and six single-page hand-coloured engravings
by Joh. Georg Schmidt, Braunschweig auf der Höhe,
1747, heightened with albumen; fine red velvet binding,
with elaborate silver thread stitching, crowned
initials AE C H to upper board, lower board with
crowned 1747 in silver stitching; a very fine example
of a „presentation binding“. € 1200,–
A finely-bound miniature Hamburg Calendar for 1747,
extra-illustrated with hand-coloured engravings by
Joh. Georg Schmidt from Braunschweig. Particularly
charming is the elaborate presentation binding in red
velvet with the crowned initials of the recipient AE C
H stitched onto the upper board within a decorative
silver stitched frame.
The Hamburgisch-verbesserter Schreib-Calender was
published from the late 17th century. It contains the
usual information on sun and moon phases, church
events, court session dates, post and market dates, but
also, rather appropriately for Hamburg, tide tables.
Music clearly played an important role in Hamburg
life with church concerts listed. This was the final year
under the editorship of Hermann Wahn (1678–1747),
a theologian, mathematician and astronomer. – Not in
Köhring, for the engraver: Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon,
p. 1516.
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