THOREAU, HENRY DAVID

Finely bound set of the Manuscript edition of Thoreau's works with a substantial two-page inlaid leaf of autograph manuscript tipped into the first volume, with sections from Thoreau's journals of at least 17 December 1859, and 21 February 1860, written, in part, at Walden.

• Sold as a set of 20.
• Henry David Thoreau (American).
• Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906
• Uncut and partially unopened, each volume with engraved or photogravure frontispiece, numerous photogravure plates after Herbert Gleason on Japan paper.
• Owner's signature on front pastedowns of vols. 1, 2, 3 and 7.
• Limited to 600 copies, this is number 180.
• Bound in original green buckram with printed paper spine labels.

The 17 December entry, published in his Journals under the heading "To Walden" reads: "By the side of the Pout's nest I see on the pure white snow what looks like dust for half a dozen inches under a twig. Looking closely, I find that the twig is hardhack and the dust its slender, light-brown, chaffy-looking seed, which falls still in copious showers, dusting the snow, when I jar it."

George M. Pflaumer (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 3 June 1997, lot 202)

BAL 20145.

Borst B3.