E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls a storefront gallery on Elizabeth

a storefront gallery on Elizabeth Street in NYC

packing in all sorts of feelings of comfort and longing

which I think would be great filled with nuts or shells or little treats

perhaps the man with moving arms most of all

and a nice trim-lined blue interior as well

E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls a storefront gallery on ElizabethI'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,