THOREAU BOOKS:
BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE THOREAU FAMILY, 1776-1869
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Histoire de l’empire de Russie, sous Pierre-le-Grand, par Voltaire … Édition stéréotype, d’après le procédé de Firmin Didot (Paris: De l’imprimerie et de la fonderie stereotypes de Pierre Didot l’Aine, et de Firmin Didot, 1815). Two volumes in one (230, 223 pages).
Signature of H. D. Thoreau in ink on front lining leaf. Presented by Sophia E. Thoreau, 1874. Quarter-bound in sheepskin, pink paper boards. Inscribed in pencil on page [1]: “”Cambridge, Mass.” Accession no. 10706.
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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.