Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors These would be great on

These would be great on a vanity or dresser used as pill boxes or containers for rings and earrings

but good overall vintage condition

it is very stable

or other fruits of the season

shot at 2-3 times magnification

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors These would be great onThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice