Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors or other fruits of the

or other fruits of the season

MA estate sale of artist Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2019)

it is very stable

I'm not totally sure the age or origin of this one

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors or other fruits of theThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice