Harvey Stoughton's Early 19th Century Notebook with Diagrams, Drawings, Text asian broom or forget-me-nots

or forget-me-nots

Just a beautiful little object whether to be used or not

if one should be so lucky as to have a living relative born in 1931

founded in 1949 by artists Ernst and Alma Lorenzen

These were covered with protective yellow translucent films

Harvey Stoughton's Early 19th Century Notebook with Diagrams, Drawings, Text asian broom or forget-me-notsThis little notebook is a delicate one small, comprised of 8 laid paper folios written on in black ink that burned through in a few spots, resulting in one loose page from where it did. Filling it is a curious mix of geometrical diagrams, a few I believe relating to surveying land but also a beautiful two page spread just diagramming geometric shapes; a couple of sketches of moons; a few drawings of houses including one labeled "the House that Harvey