The First Book of VIRGIL's The Aeneid: Amazing Hand-drawn Re-telling with Latin Subtitles, F.B. Greene, Providence RI, 1868 (Copy) antique drawing great on a desk as

great on a desk as as a paperweight or perched atop a pile of books or magazines

though perhaps it is a little older than that

jointed figure

I find the colors and patterns on wood ducks pretty amazing to begin with

The First Book of VIRGIL's The Aeneid: Amazing Hand-drawn Re-telling with Latin Subtitles, F.B. Greene, Providence RI, 1868 (Copy) antique drawing great on a desk asThis is an amazing thing, the likes of which I'll certainly never see again, and which I feel I lucked out in finding purchased from a favorite dealer in the Albany area, who buys directly from area estates, and who had just gotten it in and had it sitting on his desk, not yet processed. (I knew it was for me from the cover alone, and of course then begged for him to sell it; very kindly he obliged and I'm grateful.) This is a hand drawn re telling of