Thoreau, Henry David; Christy, Arthur (intro. and notes). Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois. William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1931.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 200 copies. Hardcover in Very Good condition in a very good slipcase, 4to, pages: xx,16(facsimile),30. Tan decorated linen over boards, black leather shelf-back with titles in gilt, printed on hand-made paper, 8 leaves (16 pp) of facsimile of Thoreau's writing. In a blue paper-covered slipcase. Limited to 1200 copies, 200 on hand-made paper and numbered in blue pencil, this being #189l, typography by Frederick Warde. Light wear, tail of spine rubbed, nice clean copy. Bookseller accession no.: 16433.

Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.

Thoreau Henry David. THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SEVEN BRAHMANS: A Translation From the "Harivansa" of Langlois.Edited From Manuscript With an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Christy. New York William Edwin Rudge 1931, 1931.

Price: US$324.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, one of 200 copies only on handmade paper, specially bound and numbered. 8 pages reproducing Thoreau’s handwritten manuscript of the text. 4to, publisher’s best binding of decorated linen over boards, backed in blue morocco and lettered in gilt on the spine. Housed in the original paper slipcase. xx, [16, manuscript facsimile], 30 pp. A handsome and very pleasing copy. Very well preserved and probably unused, the corners sharp and the morocco clean and in good order. Some wear and slight loss to the protective slipcase. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION WITH THOREAU’S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN FACSIMILE FORMAT. An elusive work in its most limited format, which represents the first printing, both in facsimile and in transcription, of a previously unknown Thoreau manuscript. Early enamored of the processes of thinking in Eastern philosophy, religion and matters of the mind, Thoreau sought, through the making of this text to depict for the Western mind that which was heretofore nearly indecipherable. His interest in matters of Eastern thought encouraged his work in the development of Transcendentalist ideas and like his writings on the return to nature and its creative store, endeared him to generations which followed for 150 years after his death and for whom his writings represent the highest in mindful ideals.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.