Only recorded copy of the 1782 edition of an illustrated miniature almanac for women, printed in an unusually narrow size, and bound in mother-of-pearl. The work contains a calendar and two short romantic poems. It has been illustrated with 13 plates, mostly showing scenes from the Dutch navy. As the work was published during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), the captions below the illustrations express a clear anti-English sentiment, not present in most of the earlier or later volumes.
The Kooker en tas almanach was published from 1774 to at least 1799, but most volumes are now very rare, with only 1 or 2 copies recorded. The earliest volumes were published by W. A. Leeuwendaal in Amsterdam, until Bernard Mourik took over in 1781. On the verso of the title-page of his Staatkundige historie van Holland, part 51 (1781), Mourik announces that he will take over the publication of the almanac for 1782 (the present copy), "in een formaat dat juffrouwen die in de tas konnen dragen" (in a size that ladies can carry in their purse). The almanac was to be illustrated with ever changing small plates with poems underneath, and could be ordered in various bindings, including a "parlemoeren" (mother-of-pearl) binding.
The silver spine has slightly tarnished, a crack in the back board, with a small loss, one nail of the clasp is loose, but still present. The back pastedown is detached from the boards. Otherwise in good condition. Cf. Children's world of learning 2589 (1780 ed.); Jacobsen Jensen 1031 (eds. 1777, 1779, and 1787); Mourik. B., Staatkundige historie van Holland, part 51 (October 1781); STCN 295867930 (1779 ed., 1 copy), 295868376 (1785 ed., 1 copy), 297437704 (1793 ed., 1 copy); Welsh, A bibliography of miniature books 4171 (1793 ed.); this ed. not in WorldCat.