and lots of foxing and staining to the backing
it is quite irregularly cut and I would probably replace it with a new one
pieces of whose head appear to have been glued and re-glued over the past 100+ years or so
changing just about right down the middle of the back
And as the shape of the point pretty much exactly echoes the cutout of the tail
1783 British Notebook, Partial, with Ships, Fish, Geometry, etc. horsehair and lots of foxing andJust a handful of pages here, but a few wonderful drawings among them, as well as some text, including a passage (with lovely watercolor diagram) titled "Of Twilight and the Uses of the Air with regard to Light," a couple of pages relating to constellations, and a few pages of calculations with some pretty geometric doodlings. One full page ink drawing shows British naval ships bombarding the island of Goree (on the West Coast of Africa, a strategic