Much Used Canadian Seamanship Examiner and Instructor, 1873, with Many Hand-written Notes and Great Plates penny bank I believe it is an

I believe it is an albumen print

and it might have been a teacher who wrote the name

What especially drew me to this one (in addition to the imagery itself--poor

whose name

there from the very beginning

Much Used Canadian Seamanship Examiner and Instructor, 1873, with Many Hand-written Notes and Great Plates penny bank I believe it is anYou know I love a book that has lived a life, and this is very much one of those I think its original seafaring owner likely slept with it under his pillow! The book is Seamanship Examiner and Instructor of Masters and Mates for the Marine Board Examination in Canada by John St. Vincent McNally, published in 1873. Photos give a good sense: the endpapers are entirely consumed with notes and calculations (including related to the positions of stars),