[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Thoreau's EXCURSIONS, 1863

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recently posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to 
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THOREAU, Henry David. EXCURSIONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First 
Edition. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first 
book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. 
Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were 
bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch 
by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous 
"Walking." Owner name of Charles[?] Davis on the front endpaper, 
possibly a neighbor of Thoreau's who owned a very large elm tree that 
Thoreau measured three times, the final time after it was cut down. A 
fairly clean copy with very minor wear, the spine gilt bright. Near 
Fine.         $1,250.00

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