THOREAU BOOKS:

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

A code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit [sic] language (London: [s.n.], 1776).  lxxiv, 61, 322 pages; plates.

Inscribed in Thoreau’s hand on front free endpaper: “Henry D. Thoreau / from / Thomas Cholmondeley.”  Inscribed beneath (in another hand): “E.R. Hoar, / from / Henry D. Thoreau. / May 1862.”  Presented by Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, 1895.  Bound in light brown calf; red spine label.  Accession no. 27332.

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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.