Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter fox and geese game board I can't resist a pretty

I can't resist a pretty old math notebook with lots of neatly drawn diagrams

these would make a great gift for a traveller

forecasting the future in not one but six languages as well as through fabulously dramatic images

13 15/16" x 10 1/4" open (and why would yopu ever want to close it

Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter fox and geese game board I can't resist a prettyI am sure there are other examples of this particular Civil War era "patriotic" cover out there, but I can't find one. 34 flags, representing the 34 states at the start of the war, and with each flag, due to inconsistencies in the inking and stamping, slightly different than the next. I find this very beautiful as an object, and richly poignant as a stand alone thing now, speaking to unity and division, boundaries and borders, freedom and constraint,