Much Used Canadian Seamanship Examiner and Instructor, 1873, with Many Hand-written Notes and Great Plates antique dominoes and then more spectators watching

and then more spectators watching from the open windows of the brick school building above

with a very small surface loss to the corner of the lower wing of the bird

Box measures 2 x 1 7/8 x 1 3/8 t

apparently

The latter shows a fair amount of staining/toning  and the tulip print shows a little along the left edge

Much Used Canadian Seamanship Examiner and Instructor, 1873, with Many Hand-written Notes and Great Plates antique dominoes and then more spectators watchingYou know I love a book that has lived a life, and this is very much one of those I think its original seafaring owner likely slept with it under his pillow! The book is Seamanship Examiner and Instructor of Masters and Mates for the Marine Board Examination in Canada by John St. Vincent McNally, published in 1873. Photos give a good sense: the endpapers are entirely consumed with notes and calculations (including related to the positions of stars),