Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored Navajo and the place setting in

and the place setting in front of her

an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U

Not a great joke--really

I especially love how their bared teeth point in opposite directions on the diagonal

with a little creasing near the bottom and tear and folded corner at lower right

Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored Navajo and the place setting inThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over