[1815.]. 16mo, pp. [48]; with 12 fine copper engraved plates tipped in (each retaining original tissue guard); one plate with faint crease; some light foxing and browning, but otherwise clean and bright; with small authorisation stamp of the Royal Swedish Academy on title-page; in contemporary light blue silk binding, with attractive tooled floral border, though gilt/silver tooling a little faded, all edges gilt, head and tail of spine lightly worn, with two small abrasions to rear cover with loss of silk, spine lightly sunned, covers a little foxed; with ex-libris book-plate of Erik Wirén on front paste-down; an appealing copy. An attractive silk bound Almanach for the year 1816, adorned with twelve fine classically inspired copper engravings, depicting Iphigenia, Flora, Amphitrite, Juno, Silenus and ‘Ariane’, with four emblematic plates representing the seasons, and two untitled engravings depicting putti. The title-page includes three small woodcuts of the lunar eclipse on June 10 and December 4th and the solar eclipse on November 19th. Following the calendar, and as was usual for those issued by Lindh, a short informative essay is included, attributed to Olof Swartz, and here advising on ‘Safe Means to prevent and inhibit the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics’ (Säkert medel att förekomma och hämma smittosamma sjukdomar och farsoters utbredande’), and discussing in particular the work of Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau in France, Michel Cabanellas in Carthagena in Spain, and M. Paroletti in Turin and their use of muriatic gas fumigation as a disinfectant and curb contagion.