Samuel Gifford c. 1830s Geometry School Notebook with Small Diagrams carved wooden sculpture with the A standing especially

with the A standing especially tall

It feels pretty old and is wonderfully rough-hewn

I’d hang these vintage Japanese fans on the wall immediately to enjoy them as the gorgeous objects that they are all winter long—and to be reminded that summer will come again

With great lines and textural details

or any other manner of small treasures and assorted odds and ends

Samuel Gifford c. 1830s Geometry School Notebook with Small Diagrams carved wooden sculpture with the A standing especiallyThis is one of a new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them, and happily so. This one is the notebook of Samuel Gifford, which I know from a few others of his dates to the 1830s or so. This one was filed half way through from one direction, then flipped and started in from the other. Sections include Geometry, Practical Geometry, Decimals & Fractions, Mensuration