E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing Market Riga and there is another whisper

and there is another whisper of red ribbon visible on the underside of the basket

For me it is the tiny figure in white shirt and black cap perched on a rock at nearish right that really makes it (aided by the sweet little tree due left of him)

either a cross or some sort of trellis—a pretty clean cut

Of course I love them all

dating to 1831

E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing Market Riga and there is another whisperI've become so enamored of very old books as objects and for the stories they tell about the people who owned them and how they were used, such that one just feels the presence of that life on every page and this one is a case in point. The book, which its owner gave a custom leather cover with lovely hand written title on paper pasted to the front is Scriber's Ready Reckoner, published (in 1846) for ship builders, boat builders, and lumber merchants,