BIB_ID
292908
Accession number
MA 1302.28
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, 1856 Sept. 7-1857 Apr 1
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 volume (ca. 310 pages), bound : ill. ; 25.9 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes an engraving of "Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, NJ"; several sketches; and affixed newspaper clippings.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Includes notes in pencil in Thoreau's hand on the front and back paste-down endpapers.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Includes an engraving of "Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, NJ"; several sketches; and affixed newspaper clippings.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Includes notes in pencil in Thoreau's hand on the front and back paste-down endpapers.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Provenance
By descent in 1862 to Thoreau's sister, Sophia; by descent in 1876 to Thoreau's friend and correspondent, H.G.O. Blake; by descent in 1898 to E.H. Russell; sold around 1906; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Housed in
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
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