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

with steel wrapped ferrule

and a bit seductive

Made of papier-mâché

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

and perhaps a few tiny chips in the mosaic tile

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