Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! metal I just love this little

I just love this little leopard

I purchased this one at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair from a wonderful dealer sharing my love of early paper

including by giving them a bunch of coins to put in the drawer and use for making change--something that seems to baffle most checkout people these days

The form of this terrific old chip carved tramp art frame keeps making me think of a child in the snow making a snow angel

Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! metal I just love this littleIt is interesting to revisit world geography from an 1835 American perspective, but I must say this one for me is really all about the squirrel drawing on the inside of the front cover! Executed in graphite, it is definitely of the period. There is also a terrific nine quadrant printed chart of directions with hands pointing every way a few pages in. And then it is all about America. (I think there was another chunk to this book, lost at the back;