Lot 381
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1854, first edition, original brown cloth with gilt lettering, pale yellow endpapers, 357 pages, map of Walden Pond tipped-in facing p. 307, 8 page publisher's catalog dated June 1854 in rear, inscribed in pencil on second free endpaper. E7000-9000 Note: Descended in the family of the present owner from Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt (b. 1908) and Carl Emile Pickhardt, Jr.(American, 1908-1985('). Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt was the granddaughter of William Hathaway Forbes (1840-1897), the founder of the American Bell Telephone Company, and Edith Emerson (1841-1929), the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Carl E. Pickhardt Jr. was born in 1908 in Cambridge, MA. He studied at Harvard with Carl Zimmerman. Pickhardt's work is represented in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art; Brooklyn Museum; Library of Congress, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fogg Museum of Art in Cambridge, MA. It seems likely that the inscription in the front of the book corresponds to a William Hathaway Forbes ownership. It is interesting to note that Thoreau built his cabin and wrote Walden on land owned by his friend and benefactor, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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