THOREAU BOOKS:

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

Giraud, Jacob Post (1811-1870).  The birds of Long Island.  By J.P. Giraud, Jr. … (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1844).  xxi, 397 pages; plate.

Signature of Henry D. Thoreau on front free endpaper. Sheet with notes in Thoreau’s hand (“Nuttall says of Cooper’s Hawk…”) tipped to p. 21. Presented by Sophia E. Thoreau, 1874.  Bound in dark brown cloth.  Accession no. 10411.

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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.