1783 British Notebook, Partial, with Ships, Fish, Geometry, etc. horsehair pieces of whose head appear

pieces of whose head appear to have been glued and re-glued over the past 100+ years or so

I found another of these Grenfell Mission letter openers a few years ago and have kept a keen out out for another ever since--because they are rare

and lots of foxing and staining to the backing

slightly wonky face appear to be stained or painted very dark brown or black while the rest is a warm

Photos document the entire contents laid out across two photos

1783 British Notebook, Partial, with Ships, Fish, Geometry, etc. horsehair pieces of whose head appearJust a handful of pages here, but a few wonderful drawings among them, as well as some text, including a passage (with lovely watercolor diagram) titled "Of Twilight and the Uses of the Air with regard to Light," a couple of pages relating to constellations, and a few pages of calculations with some pretty geometric doodlings. One full page ink drawing shows British naval ships bombarding the island of Goree (on the West Coast of Africa, a strategic