James M Beale's 1853-57 Math Notebook, Chock Full first aid book with steel wrapped ferrule

with steel wrapped ferrule

and two of the original three pins remain in tact to lock it in place when folded up

Both made very similar baskets

The beautiful production of this 1908 edition of "The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment" belies its contents

and featuring wonderful gold borders and tiny gold dots art the center of each black dot

James M Beale's 1853-57 Math Notebook, Chock Full first aid book with steel wrapped ferruleThe cover and first few pages of this notebook are pretty rough, but it gets better and better as one turns the jam packed pages, including beautiful writing and gracefully meandering equations, all sorts of wonderful little doodles and flourishes, and best of all gorgeous watercolored headers. And over and over again James M. Beale has signed and dated the pages, in a wide variety of ways. I'd be very inclined to carefully remove and frame a handful