Description

12°. [2] engraved frontisoiece and title page, IV, [24] calendar with interleaved 2 stipple enengraved portraits and 8 originally coloured copper engravings bound in pairs and separated by paperguards, 198 pp, (167 pp.), [1], original illustrated card binding, gilt edges (Very Good, binding slightly dusty and battered on the corners).

A decorative pocket almanach for year 1826 by the Perthes Institute in Gotha includes stipple engraved portraits of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1763  –  1834) and Bernhard II Erich Freund, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800 – 1882), as well as 8 originally coloured engravings of 32 flags of German and European states.