1836 Notebook of Beautifully Inked Geometry Diagrams iron cabin as something of a retort

as something of a retort to notions of keeping women in the kitchen (or nursery

the two on the ends draped with ribbons

in this case for someone turning 20

but also from what I can tell a rare one

1836 Notebook of Beautifully Inked Geometry Diagrams iron cabin as something of a retortAnother from my trip to my favorite antiquarian bookseller in Maine this week, this one a geometry notebook from 1838, which sold me on the first page alone which I might be tempted to extract and frame, though the notebook is thin enough it could just be folded open to show that one and kept in tact. Something so satisfying to my eye about these sorts of geometric diagrams if only everything could be so ordered and rational! 8 1 2" x 6 1 2". Brown