Beers, Andrew:

$375 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE FARMERS ALMANAC, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1800. An early Connecticut almanac with many anecdotes and jokes. Notable is an anecdote about Voltaire's punishment for writing an epigram about the King of Prussia: "King, author, philosopher, poet, musician, / Free mason, oeconomist, bard, politician; / How had Europe rejoic'd, if a christian he'd been! / If a man, how he would have enraptur'd his Queen!" A rare Connecticut almanac, NAIP locating only four copies.

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