Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings union envelop encrusted sting wrapped just below

encrusted sting wrapped just below

or just a great looking little display

who is large enough to hang on the wall and feel like company

8 7/8" tall x approx 4" wide x 3 9/16" across at base

I'd assume dating it to 1908

Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings union envelop encrusted sting wrapped just belowThis is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings, done for biology class I presume, by a young Eva Ferguson was very very meticulous in her work! Sixteen pages of drawings, most with thin tissue paper separating them, detailing everything from the microbial structure of an amoeba, to the ray of a starfish in cross section, to a ruminant stomach (mammalian), to the exterior of a crustacean, to various leaf structures. All very precisely rendered