Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings union envelop and all the more so

and all the more so filled with a couple of calla lilies

or just a great looking little display

and "OV" on the back

I've done some digging and have found a few Ebenezer Averill's from these parts from the 18th and 19th centuries

Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings union envelop and all the more soThis is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings, done for biology class I presume, by a young Eva Ferguson was very very meticulous in her work! Sixteen pages of drawings, most with thin tissue paper separating them, detailing everything from the microbial structure of an amoeba, to the ray of a starfish in cross section, to a ruminant stomach (mammalian), to the exterior of a crustacean, to various leaf structures. All very precisely rendered