Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships tabletop furnoture a cloth measure housed inside

a cloth measure housed inside tin litho case

including two state maps listed last week

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

Super rare to come across a set of these

or simply in a grouping on a shelf or table to add a pop of color and moment of beauty

Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships tabletop furnoture a cloth measure housed insideMy 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