Almanach Chacornac / Almanach Astrologique

Almanach Chacornac / Almanach Astrologique

Full title:

• Almanach Astrologique 19XX (1931 to 1932 issues)
• Almanach Astrologique 19XX + [variable subtitles to front covers and / or inner title pages] (1933-1938 issues)
• Almanach Chacornac 19XX: Éphémérides Astrologiques et Astronomiques (1939-1941 issues)
• Almanach Chacornac 19XX: Éphémérides Astrologiques et Astronomiques (1942-3 issues)
• Ephémérides Astronomiques^[1] Chacornac 19XX: Édition Complète^[2] (1944 issue)
• Ephémérides Astronomiques Chacornac 19XX (1946-1954 issues)^[3]
• Almanach “Chacornac”: Éphémerides Astronomiques (1966-7 issues)^[4]

Editors:

• Tamos, G. (1931-2 issues)
• Chacornac, Paul (1933-43 issues)
• Not specified (1944-1954 issues)
• Villain, A. André (1966-1971 issues)

Publication credits:

• 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris V^e (1931 issue)
• Chacornac, 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris V^e (1932 issue)
• Bibliothèque Chacornac, 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris V^e (1933-8 issues)
• 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris (1939-44 issues)
• Chacornac Frères, 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris (1945-1954 issues)
• Éditions Traditionnelles, 11, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris (1966-1971 issues)

Holdings, showing variable subtitles where present

• 1^re Année – 1931. (Covers detached but intact.) 76pp + covers
• 1932. (Covers detached but intact.) (Heavy separation between pp. 64-5; light separation between pp. 48-9.) [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-111] + [1] + covers
• 1933 – Prévisions – Travaux – Documents. – Table des Positions Planétaires pour 1933 – Table des Maisons de 0º à 60º – Éphémérides de Pluton. – Le Centiloque d’Hermès (front cover title). (Bottom 8mm and top 2mm of spine chipped; further chip lost from lower central area. Wear and separation along parts of front spine hinge.). [2 leaves] + [3] + [pp. 8-92] + covers
• 1934 – Travaux – Documents – Calendrier – Les Éclipses – Éphémérides de Chacornac – Positions de Pluton – Prévisions (front cover title) / 1934 – Publié sous la Direction de Paul Chacornac – Deuxième^[5] Année (inner title page). [1 leaf] + [2] + [pp. 5-14] + [1] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 40-95] + [1] + [covers]
• 1935 – Prévisions – Les Aspects de la Lune – Éphémérides de Chacornac – Les Heures Planétaires – Calendrier – Anecdotes (front cover title) / 1935 – Publié sous la Direction de Paul Chacornac – Troisième Année (inner title page). [Front cover] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-8] + [3] + [pp. 12-82] + [1] + [24 pages of tables] + [1] + [pp. 109-110 of advertisements] + [pp. 111-112] + [rear cover featuring advertisements]
• 1936 – Prévisions – Éphémérides Chacornac – Les Aspects Mutuels – L’Astrologie de la Chance – Le “Vendredi 13” (front cover title) / 1936 – Publié sous la Direction de Paul Chacornac – Quatrième Année (inner title page). [Front cover] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-4] + [2] + [pp. 7-31] + [2] + [24pages of tables] + [p. 58-76] + [1] + [pp. 78-93] + [3 pages of tables] + [pp. 97-108] + [1] + [pp. 110-111] + [1] + [rear cover featuring table of contents and advertisements]
• 1937 – Travaux – Documents – Éphémérides Chacornac – Positions de Pluton – Table des Maisons – Prévisions (front cover title) / 1937 – Publié sous la Direction de Paul Chacornac – Cinquième Année (inner title page). [Front cover] + [1 leaf] + [3] + [pp. 6-104] + [2] + [pp. 107-9] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 134-6 of tables] + [1] + [3 pages of tables] + [pp. 141-158] + [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 161-3 of advertisements] + [1] + [rear cover featuring table of contents and advertisements]
• 1938 (front cover title) / 1938 – Publié sous la Direction de Paul Chacornac – Sixième Année (inner title page). (Leaves comprising pp. 83-[6], [pp. 89-96]; [105]-112; 113-120; and [129-136] still joined at top edges; leaves comprising pp. [89-92]; [93-6]; [105-8]; [109]-112; and 121-4 still joined at outeredges: need separating.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-11] + [7] + [pp. 19-64] + [4] + [pp. 69-71] + [pp. 72-83 of tables] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 108-127 of tables] + [15 pages of tables] + [rear cover featuring table of contents, backed with advertisements]
• 1939 – 7^e Année. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [2] + [Frontis.] + [2 leaves] + [pp. 7-64] + [1] + [pp. 66-70] + [1] + [pp. 72-83 of tables] + [24 pages of tables] + [1] + [pp. 109-128 of tables] + [1] + [16 pages of tables] + [pp. 146-7] + [1 page of advertisements] + [rear cover featuring table of contents, backed with book reviews]
• 1940 – 8^e Année. [Front cover backed with advertisements] +[3] + [pp. 5-58] + [1] + [pp. 60-3] + [pp. 64-9 of advertisements] + [pp. 70-2] + [1] + [pp. 74-9] + [1] + [pp. 81-92] + [1] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 118-135 of tables] + [16 pages of tables] + [pp. 152-5] + [1] + [rear cover featuring table of contents]
• 1941 – 9^e Année. (Small red-inked marginal note to p. 46.) [Front cover] +[3] + [pp. 5-60] + [1] + [pp. 62-7] + {1] + [pp. 69-80 of tables] + [1] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 106-126 of tables] + [1] + [pp. 128-9 of tables] + [16 pages of tables] + [pp. 146-7] + [1 page of advertisements] + [rear cover featuring table of contents]
• 1942 – 10^e Année. (Separation between pp. [112-3] and [160-1].) (Mild damp-staining and damp-induced tautness to lower halves of many pages within. Leaves comprising pp. 137-40, [153-6] and [157-160] still joined at outer edges; leaves comprising pp. [153-60] and [161-4] still joined at top edges: need separating.) [Front cover] + [3] + [plate] + [pp. 5-78] + [4] + [pp. 83-9] + [1] + [pp. 91-102 of tables] + [1] + [24 pages of tables] + [pp. 128-150 of tables] + [pp. 151-2] + [14 pages of tables] + [pp. 167-8] + [rear cover featuring table of contents]
• 11^e Année – 1943. (Heavy separation between pp. 148-9, but central cords holding.) Leaves comprising pp. 165-[8] and [169]-172 still joined at top edges: need separating.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [3] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 5-84] + [2] + [pp. 87-93] + [1] + [pp. 95-106o of tables] + [1] + [pp. 108-157 of tables] + [pp. 158-9] + [pp. 160-7 of tables] + [2 pages of tables] + [pp. 170-2] + [rear cover featuring table of contents, backed with advertisements]
• 12^e Année – 1944. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [tipped-in publisher’s note regarding the change of title] + [3] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 5-84] + [2] + [pp. 87-94] + [pp. 95-157 of tables] + [1] + [pp. 159-166 of tables] + [2 pagesof tables] + [pp. 169-171] + [1 page of advertisements] + [rear cover featuring table of contents, backed with advertisements]
• 13^e Année – 1945
• 14^e Année – 1946
• 18^e Année – 1950
• 19^e Année – 1951
• 21^e Année – 1953
• 22^e Année – 1954
• 34^e Année – 1966
• 35^e Année – 1967. With laid-in separate staplebound pamphlet entitled ‘Supplément à l’Almanach 1967: Les Heures Planétaires par A. Boudineau; Les Aspects Lunaires par F. Ch. Barlet: Fac-siilé d’articles parus dans notre Almanach “Chacornac” année 1936’
• 39^e Année – 1971. (Nearly all gatherings still joined at top edges: need opening.)

Binding format and presentation notes:

• 1931-2 as small-format paperbacks in card covers
• 1933-1971 as medium-format paperbacks. 1933-9 and all from 1941 to 1971 in card covers; 1940 in textured card covers.

 

[1] NB: This year, ’Almanach’ ceased to feature in the title but it was a proper almanac like the previous ones, with 84 pages of articles preceding the ephemeris section. However, all subsequent years through to the end of the 1950s appear to have been limited to about 90 pages of ephemeris only, before the title was mildly revived in the 1960s with the occasional new article and some reprints of old articles added in

[2] Starting this year (1944) and for many years to follow, the ‘Almanac’ title was dispensed with altogether, and after this year all pretensions to being a full almanac were lost for many years as the publication was almost entirely limited to ephemerides. But uniquely this year, two editions were produced, one just ephemerides; the other the traditional Chacornac almanac including numerous articles on astrology, but called ‘Ephemerides – Complete Edition’.

[3] These years are just ephemerides and related tables – without articles. I have therefore not bothered to paginate them. A note of past years in the series facing the inner title page of the 1954 edition admits that the full almanacs for 1945-1953 were ‘non parus’ (i.e. they did not appear at all).

[4] In these years, while most of the content was ephemerides, the editors made some effort to restore article contents, although typically only 2-3 shortish articles per issue and at least one of them usually culled from one of the old almanacs from 1933-1934. Again, I have not undertaken to paginate these issues since most of the content is ephemerides, and the publication remained a shadow of its former glories in the period 1931-44.

[5] For some reason, the 1931 and 1932 issues have been discounted as part of the series. They are slightly smaller but otherwise essentially very similar, the only obvious difference being that they were explicitly edited by G. Tamos whereas those from 1933 onwards are not.