signed
by EGELMANN, CARL FRIEDRICH.
[Reading, Pennsylvania], 1833.. 21 copperplate engravings, verso blank. Oblong 8vo. Orig. blue wraps, stitched (front neatly detached and with a small loss; loss to corner of rear). Orange reinforcement. Spine perished. Carl Friedrich Egelmann was an astronomer, newspaperman, and poet, who provided most of the astronomical calculations for the principal American almanacs published in the first third of the 19th century. He was also an engraver, with this being his only book, containing engraved examples of handwriting in German (Fraktur) and English. The engraving on the title-page is a fine example of Federalist art, though influenced by Pennsylvania (truncated)