George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting and hand-painted with glorious color

and hand-painted with glorious color much richer and more elaborate than in the copy of the booklet at Yale

balls are 1 1/2" in diameter

(1865-1957) and Lilla B

Largest panels are 3 1/8" across

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting and hand-painted with glorious colorOne 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.