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[ABERDEEN ALMANAC]. The Aberdeen Almanack, for the year 1804...

Aberdeen. Printed and sold by J. Chalmers & Co., [1804].
12mo. 252pp. With a folding table. Contemporary limp sheep. Remnants of flap to upper board. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked. Hinges exposed, loss to front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript price list to recto, occasional spotting, single short tear to table at gutter, fore-edge shaved.
An apparently unrecorded early nineteenth-century edition of a vade mecum for the use of Aberdeen residents, the earliest recorded copy of which is dated 1772. In addition to the usual almanac fare, the text includes figures for those treated at the 'lunatic hospital', and a folding table recording the vessels registered at the port of Aberdeen as of November 1803.
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 24509