George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting I completely love this thing

I completely love this thing

with tissue paper in between each page

18 3/4" l x 8 3/16" t

Largest panels are 3 1/8" across

but not another like this older one by an unknown maker

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting I completely love this thingOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, each special in its own way. This small one begins with a list of the causes of the American Revolution, followed by a few lists of exports and imports, then latitudes and longitudes of major U. S. cities. Then a series of dense pages of math calculations, evolving into what feel to me almost like pure drawings, with a sort of cobweb of lines bracketing one problem from the next.