Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors MA estate sale of artist

MA estate sale of artist Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2019)

shot at 2-3 times magnification

Yet still there is something to say for the hat / And for woman own sake I must preach it / Which is - should a family be caught in the rain / Then the family can shelter beneath it

but good overall vintage condition

I'm not totally sure the age or origin of this one

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors MA estate sale of artistThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice