Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored victorian microscope slides smaller holes and marks on

smaller holes and marks on the arms

I was pretty blown away when I find this antique RPPC yesterday in New Hampshire—what a stunning image

but stable and lovely

there are hooks on both ends of it

Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored victorian microscope slides smaller holes and marks onThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over