THOREAU BOOKS:
BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE THOREAU FAMILY, 1776-1869
Lesley, J. Peter (1819-1903). Manual of coal and its topography. Illustrated by original drawings, chiefly of facts in the geology of the Appalachian region of the United States of North America. By J. P. Lesley … (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1856). 224 pages.
Inscribed on front free endpaper by Benjamin Smith Lyman (Sept. 1, 1856), and later by Lyman for Henry D. Thoreau (Concord, Apr. 10, 1859). Presented by Sophia E. Thoreau, 1874. Bound in dark brown cloth. Accession no. 10402.
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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.