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Bound manuscript of arithmetic textbook created by student in Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. Handwritten book is simultaneously an exercise in learning math, penmanship, and business genres.

title page of Illustrium scriptorum

allegorical image of a passionfruit plant

printer's ornament of a demon head being wrestled by two angels

printer's ornament of a seated queen surrounded by plants and animals

device- the hand of God watering a garden, in a frame held by two lions

device- a two-tailed mermaid in an ornamental frame

Sacro Bosco in an ornamental chair, surrounded by cosmological symbols

Polymneia

landscape with globe