E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls and it can be set

and it can be set back on top most any way

a Danish design company specializing in “Scandinavian Design Originals

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

Ink faded on the latter

E.Decker's 1846 (Rare) Ready Reckoner with Beautiful Leather Cover and Drawing vintage billiard balls and it can be setI'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,