Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! long bowl Blocks are in good condition

Blocks are in good condition

but looks great and ready to fill

I think it was always lightly all-over shaded

where I presume it has lived for a very long time

There are a couple of surprise pages--a lovely watercolor rendering of a purple flower

Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! long bowl Blocks are in good conditionIt is interesting to revisit world geography from an 1835 American perspective, but I must say this one for me is really all about the squirrel drawing on the inside of the front cover! Executed in graphite, it is definitely of the period. There is also a terrific nine quadrant printed chart of directions with hands pointing every way a few pages in. And then it is all about America. (I think there was another chunk to this book, lost at the back;