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The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois

The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois

THOREAU, Henry David.

The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois.

FIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE. Edited from manuscript, with an introduction and notes by Arthur Christy. Mount Vernon, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies on regular paper; preceded by a limited issue of 200 numbered copies on handmade paper dated 1931. Borst A27.1.b; BAL 20155.

Quarto. xx, [2], 30, [1] pp., with the 16-page manuscript facsimile bound in. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards, in the publisher's green printed dust jacket (price $3.50 on the front flap). A fine copy.

The first printing of a previously unknown Thoreau manuscript — his English rendering of a Sanskrit tale, taken from S. A. Langlois's French translation of the Harivansa (Paris, 1834). The volume reproduces Thoreau's handwritten manuscript leaves in sixteen pages of facsimile, followed by the transcription and the French source, with Christy's introduction setting the translation against Thoreau's lifelong interest in Oriental literature and the ascetic strain in his thought.

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