London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1800. [London:] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1799]. 58 x 34mm. Folding engraved plate of the New Front of the East India House. Contemporary morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, the covers with oval pictorial labels printed in blue (part of spine lacking); with 4 other almanacks for 1778, 1812 (2) and 1843. (5)

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