Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers cup and saucer Box: 4 7/16" x 2

Box: 4 7/16" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/8" t

and also for the rather curious (and arguably contentious) phrase "Religion is the Daughter of Heaven

including for the fact of being glazed both inside and out

and a rainbow of colors

this one unusual for its combination of longer black horsehair bristles surrounded by tapered shorter blonde ones

Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers cup and saucer Box: 4 7/16" x 2As early a French secret compartment book box as I've come across 1752! and quite a large one, with the most gorgeous marbled endpapers . And, a volume about Roman History, specifically the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, feels pretty apt for the moment. (This is the third volume in a series written by Charles Rollin and Jean Baptiste Louis Crvier spanning the period from the founding of Rome to the The Battle of Actium, 31 BC, leading to the end