Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow with the individually cast--plaster/composition--connected via

with the individually cast--plaster/composition--connected via a cloth ribbon that runs the span of the snake and sticks out at the tail

How much better than an action figure though

not visible if hung face front

with light surface wear as there should be

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow with the individually cast--plaster/composition--connected viaI try to restrain myself, but I really have very limited capacity to resist early school books that teem with the presence of those who owned them long ago. And even more so when the manifestation of that presence is a full page of heavily inked fraktur writing as here quite a declaration of ownership by Piero Strassburger on the date of February 5, 1835 (and I love seeing the "anno domini" Latin.) The book itself appears to be quite a scarce one too