Hartford: Published by Cooke and Co. and Packard and Butler, 1830. First American edition. American Imprints 1185. ¶ A wide-ranging religious and philosophical work on the state of man, with reflections on the requirements for a civil society for succeeding generations. This work is apparently by James Douglas, fourth Baron...
Boston: James Munroe, 1844. First edition. Myerson A17.1.a; BAL 5199. Emerson's famous condemnation of slavery in the United States and commemoration of the West Indian emancipation. From the library of Walter Wallace, with his bookplate on the front paste-down.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850. First edition, first issue. BAL 5219, second printing; Myerson A22.1.b, second printing, binding A. Both the first and second printings were issued in December, 1849. Emerson's essays on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to "Mrs. Bancroft / with...
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116, binding A. ¶ Heretofore unpublished letters and poems by Thoreau.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was...