E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing Market Riga once framed

once framed

Very nice just perched somewhere

either a cross or some sort of trellis—a pretty clean cut

dating to the 1960s

For me it is the tiny figure in white shirt and black cap perched on a rock at nearish right that really makes it (aided by the sweet little tree due left of him)

E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing Market Riga once framedI've become so enamored of very old books as objects and for the stories they tell about the people who owned them and how they were used, such that one just feels the presence of that life on every page and this one is a case in point. The book, which its owner gave a custom leather cover with lovely hand written title on paper pasted to the front is Scriber's Ready Reckoner, published (in 1846) for ship builders, boat builders, and lumber merchants,