1783 British Notebook, Partial, with Ships, Fish, Geometry, etc. horsehair And as the shape of

And as the shape of the point pretty much exactly echoes the cutout of the tail

slightly wonky face appear to be stained or painted very dark brown or black while the rest is a warm

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 lots of foxing and staining to the backing

1783 British Notebook, Partial, with Ships, Fish, Geometry, etc. horsehair And as the shape ofJust 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