$5,228
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) Autograph Manuscript Leaf from Cape Cod . Single lined manuscript leaf, c. 1849, inscribed in brown ink on one side with corrections in pencil, of Thoreau's working notes on Cape Cod, based on an 1849 visit to the Cape in which Thoreau and Ellery Channing toured the land on foot; Thoreau adapted these notes first into a series of lectures and later into a complete book, published posthumously in 1865; the manuscript text here varies from the published version, matted and framed, the leaf set into a narrow paper window mount, not directly mounted onto a full sheet, verso still accessible, neat break along an old horizontal fold without loss, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-18
