THOREAU BOOKS:

BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE THOREAU FAMILY, 1776-1869

Bell, Thomas (1792-1880).  A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea. By Thomas Bell … Illustrated by nearly 200 woodcuts (London: John Van Voorst, 1837).  xviii, 526 pages.

Pencil notes on endpapers (those on front paste-down endpaper erased). Back lining leaf has list of "Torn out Plates &c.", written in the hand of HDT.  Presented by Sophia E. Thoreau, 1874. Bound in blue-green cloth. Accession no. 10409.

 

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Community Preservation funding for this project to conserve the CFPL's Thoreau Books Collection and to provide electronic access to annotated pages within the collection was approved by the citizens of the Town of Concord at Town Meeting in 2008.