Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships tabletop furnoture 4 1/2" l (center of

4 1/2" l (center of short side to point) x 3" w x 7/8" d

The effect to my eye is of a sentiment that feels honest and urgent and true

A wonderful and hugely empathetic feeling small Inuit carving

Largest cat is 1 3/8" long and the smaller cats are 3/4" long

Super rare to come across a set of these

Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships tabletop furnoture 4 1/2" l (center ofMy habit of opening old school books to check their endpages for drawings is a habit I think I will maintain until my dying day and it will always hold a sense of excitement for me. Even more exciting to open one and find a full page drawing there! (And one could draw some conclusions from them too in my experience, often the best are found in geography books, which seem particularly to have set young minds to imagine setting sail to distant lands and