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185191604NY:: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1851. Hardcover. B00LU5XE98 . Contributions include the first appearance of any part of Melville's MOBY DICK - "The Town-Ho's Story" Chapter 54 of the novel. Illustrated with 171 engravings. First edition thus. Thick quarto bound in decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering marbled endpapers. Worn and frayed at the spine ends and corners previous owner's name on front endpage and title page occasional foxing throughout text block else good. ; 864 pages . Harper & Brothers, hardcover
1856813041856. MELVILLE. HERMAN. Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature Science and Art. Vol. VII. January to July 1856. New York: Dix & Edwards. London: Sampson Low Son & Co. 1856. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine lightly sunned else very good. BAL 13681. Contains two of Herman Melville's published stories: I and My Chimney and The Apple-Tree Table. First appearance of these stories. unknown
180634905Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806. Good/No Jacket. Full leather binding raised bands rules & corner decorations Leather of boards with whitish deposit; front hinge weak. Edges marbled. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme hardcover
1841368974New York: Dayton and Saxton 1841. First edition. 435 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original brown pebbled cloth. Spine chipping and almost detached boards loose. Internally Fine. First edition. 435 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep: "John Hone Esq/ with the regards of /Gansevoort Melville/ New York June 1842. Dayton and Saxton unknown
18522564671852. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Secretary of State Edward Everett writes to Secretary of the Navy John Pendleton Kennedy on Justice Lemuel Shaw's behalf to recommend his son John Oakes Shaw for a position in the Navy. Oakes Shaw as he was known was the eldest son from his father's second marriage to Hope Savage. He became the brother-in-law of Herman Meville when the author married Justice Shaw's daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage. In fact Oakes had truly disgraced his family when in 1844 he married an "inopportunely preganant Caroline Caro Sarah Cobb."<br /> Reading in full "Mr. John O. Shaw of Boston a son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts is desirous of being appointed a pursor in the Navy. His father equally respectable as a Magistrate & a citizen desires me to speak a good word for him. I have no knowledge of the young man but I am sure the Chief Justice would not recommend him if he did not think him fully qualified for the place". Parker Herman Melville Volume 1: 1819-1851 pp. 341-343 unknown
1807245236Boston 1807. Printed customs declaration accomplished in pen and ink with blindstamp seal. 5 1/8 x 10 in. Repaired 5 in. closed tear else fine. Printed customs declaration accomplished in pen and ink with blindstamp seal. 5 1/8 x 10 in. Customs declaration accomplished and signed by Thomas Melvill Inspector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown Revolutionary War hero and grandfather to Herman Melville. The "e" was added to the surname by Herman's mother after the death of her husband. unknown
1851610619Portland Maine: Portland Transcript 1851. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Two bi-folia. 8 pages p.257-264. Formerly in a bound volume stitching notches along the spines old folds overall sound and very good. Pages 260-261 contain a column Bits of Books which contains a relatively long excerpt ".from Melville's new work entitled 'Moby Dick or the Whale' which is related in his best style. Portland Transcript hardcover
1852610620Portland Maine: Portland Transcript 1852. Unbound. Very Good. Two bi-folia. 8 pages p.154-160. Formerly in a bound volume stitching notches along the spines old folds overall sound and very good. Page 156 contains an article Herman Melvillethat contains biographical information on the author apparently appropriated from Men of the Times taken from a new book published by Redfield. Portland Transcript unknown
1852353965Boston: Redding & Co 1852. First edition. 228 pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers rubbed with some chipping around the edges crease across both covers slight loss to back corners rebacked with matching paper spine some waterstaining to back cover and last leaves old stitch holes in gutter generally clean internally. Custom cloth drop box. First edition. 228 pp. 8vo. A travel guide dedicated to the "Summer Ramblers on the Berkshire Hills" which mentions the homes of several authors. The author notes that "upon a little hill around which the Housatonic makes a graceful curve is the villa of Oliver Wendell Holmes.Adjoining the estate of Dr. Holmes is that of HERMAN MELLVILLE who has retired thus far of the sea where nothing can remind him of the familiar sound of ocean save the roar of the wind among the forest trees" p. 15-16. Longfellow's writings on the area are mentioned at multiple times and other names like that of Emerson appear to give context. Finally there is a six page section devoted to Nathaniel Hawthorne at page 101 whom Melville first encountered in the area in 1850 and they're both mentioned again on pages 212-3. <br /> <br /> Melville mentioned this guide to Hawthorne in a letter dated October 25 1852: "Among others you figure in it & I also. But you are the most honored being the most abused and have the greatest space allotted to you. - It is a 'Guide Book' to the Berkshire." SCARCE. Sealts Melville's Reading #478 Redding & Co unknown
1852353966Boston: Redding & Co 1852. First edition. 228 pp. 8vo. Half cloth and marbled paper boards ex library copy with markings. First edition. 228 pp. 8vo. A travel guide dedicated to the "Summer Ramblers on the Berkshire Hills" which mentions the homes of several authors. The author notes that "upon a little hill around which the Housatonic makes a graceful curve is the villa of Oliver Wendell Holmes.Adjoining the estate of Dr. Holmes is that of HERMAN MELLVILLE who has retired thus far of the sea where nothing can remind him of the familiar sound of ocean save the roar of the wind among the forest trees" p. 15-16. Longfellow's writings on the area are mentioned at multiple times and other names like that of Emerson appear to give context. Finally there is a six page section devoted to Nathaniel Hawthorne at page 101 whom Melville first encountered in the area in 1850 and they're both mentioned again on pages 212-3. <br /> <br /> Melville mentioned this guide to Hawthorne in a letter dated October 25 1852: "Among others you figure in it & I also. But you are the most honored being the most abused and have the greatest space allotted to you. - It is a 'Guide Book' to the Berkshire." SCARCE. Sealts Melville's Reading 478 Redding & Co unknown
1867340051Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott & Co. and Bell and Daldy 1867. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated with woodcuts from Harden S. Melville's own drawings. Publisher's blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Coated endpapers all edges gilt. Contemporary gift inscription slight chipping at the crown hinges cracked in a couple of places but holding a good or better copy of an uncommon third person travel narrative. Melville's adventures as draughtsman on the HMS Fly as it conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the northeast coast of Australia in 1842-1846 with extensive illustrations of Australia. A modestly flawed but handsome copy of an uncommon title. J.B. Lippincott & Co. and Bell and Daldy hardcover
1854432364New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place 1854. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printed appearance. Octavo. pp. i-iii iv 1 2-684. Publisher’s forest-green decorative cloth gilt spine. Contemporary owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper. A handsome ex-library copy with small paper bookplate on front pastedown and barely visible blind-embossed stamp on title page. A few small tears to the spine at foot and crown about near fine.<br /> <br /> Includes the first appearance of Melville’s celebrated travel narrative serialized under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor in three installments in the March April and May issues pp. 311-319; 345-355; 460-466. “Created from the works of buccaneers and poets travelers and naval officers and of course from the experiences of Melville himself … Melville takes his readers on a historical and geographical tour of these enchanted islesâ€. The Encantadas was later published in The Piazza Tales in 1856. An attractive clean and tight copy. Robert C. Albrecht TSLL Fall 1972 p. 463. G.P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place hardcover
1854432417New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. First printed appearance. Octavo. pp. i-iii iv 1 2-684. Publisher’s green decorative cloth gilt spine. Darkening to the spine four-inch tear to page 77 at the gutter very good or better with scattered foxing. Includes the first appearance of Melville’s celebrated travel narrative serialized under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor in three installments in the March April and May issues pp. 311-319; 345-355; 460-466. “Created from the works of buccaneers and poets travelers and naval officers and of course from the experiences of Melville himself … Melville takes his readers on a historical and geographical tour of these enchanted islesâ€. The Encantadas was later published in The Piazza Tales in 1856. An attractive clean and tight copy. Robert C. Albrecht TSLL Fall 1972 p. 463. G.P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place hardcover
1854432421New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. First printed appearance. Octavo. pp. i-iii iv 1 2-684. Publisher’s light green decorative cloth gilt spine. The cloth binding is sunned and faded to beige else about near fine with scattered foxing. Includes the first appearance of Melville’s celebrated travel narrative serialized under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor in three installments in the March April and May issues pp. 311-319; 345-355; 460-466. “Created from the works of buccaneers and poets travelers and naval officers and of course from the experiences of Melville himself … Melville takes his readers on a historical and geographical tour of these enchanted islesâ€. The Encantadas was later published in The Piazza Tales in 1856. An attractive clean and tight copy. Robert C. Albrecht TSLL Fall 1972 p. 463. G.P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place hardcover
1854432420New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. First printed appearance. Octavo. pp. i-iii iv 1 2-684. Publisher’s green decorative cloth gilt spine. Early owner’s initials in pencil on the title page. One leaf pp. 119-20 not part of the Melville installments is creased else the gilt spine back is faded else about near fine with scattered foxing. Includes the first appearance of Melville’s celebrated travel narrative serialized under the pseudonym Salvator R. Tarnmoor in three installments in the March April and May issues pp. 311-319; 345-355; 460-466. “Created from the works of buccaneers and poets travelers and naval officers and of course from the experiences of Melville himself … Melville takes his readers on a historical and geographical tour of these enchanted islesâ€. The Encantadas was later published in The Piazza Tales in 1856. An attractive clean and tight copy. Robert C. Albrecht TSLL Fall 1972 p. 463. G.P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place hardcover
1890549445Scandinavia 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo album. Oblong quarto. Measuring approximately 13" x 9¼". Half leather and pebbled cloth over boards with all edges gilt and spine and cover titled in gilt. Bookplate of newspaper publisher and founder of the Chicago Daily News Melville E. Stone by Friedrich Haffcke on the front pastedown. Contains 43 cardstock leaves with 124 gelatin silver photographs laid down measuring from approximately 2" x 3½ to approximately 10½" x 7½" about half of which contain brief inked captions. Boards with some rubbing and wear leaves gently rippled a few photographs with modest lightening at the edges or in a tiny bit of the image overall very good or better.<br /> <br /> A handsome likely professionally produced tourist album for a turn-of-the-century trip to Scandinavia the journey presumably taken by newspaper publisher Melville E. Stone and company. The images are roughly broken into three parts: over half consist of landscapes architectural shots group shots and portraits which tend to be the largest images; 18 photographs of classical sculpture which tend to be mid-sized; and 33 photographs of gargoyle heads all measuring approximately 2" x 3½". Highlights include handsome architectural shots and street views; images of classical sculpture as well as the 33 folksy carved gargoyle heads; an image of the Christiana public market in full swing; and nicely composed scenes of nature.<br /> <br /> Perhaps of most note are the approximately 22 images of native Scandinavians dressed in what appear to be homemade fur clothes; several images featuring reindeer dogs and babies in homemade bassinets. Two native group portraits are taken around a house each with someone sitting on the roof. Two group portraits of the travelers feature intruding reindeer. The images nicely composed and often taken from the perfect distant vantage point are likely professionally made; Stone likely chose the images he liked and combined with several candid group shots of his co-travelers created a very nice souvenir. A visually striking album featuring Scandinavian art architecture and people around the turn of the century. hardcover
184934587London: John Murray 1849. First Edition. 8vo in a handsome binding of brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards the spine with raised bands black morocco lettering label gilt xii 335 1 pp. A handsome copy the binding is strong and solid and in excellent condition the text is essentially free of any spotting or staining on occasion just a touch age mellowed. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY EARLY ACCOUNT OF A BRITISH WOMAN'S TIME IN AFRICA. The author lived for several years in Sierra Leone. She informally tells us of the hardships and discomforts but also provides much on the missionaries the climate the natural attributes of the area the slave traders and of the native peoples. John Murray hardcover
18833285New York: F.H. Melville Commission Merchant 1883. Broadside 29.8 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated advertisement for the "Perfection" paper bag wrapping paper and twine holder. Includes description dimensions and directions. Stamped with the name and location of "F.H. Melville Commission Merchant" the purveyor of the holder. Fold creases and small spot of discoloration otherwise fine condition. OCLC locates no copies. F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant unknown
1805AQ11951Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill 1805. 2 64pp. Recent blue paper boards printed paper title labels to spine and upper board. Neat ink numeral to head of dust-soiled title occasional light foxing short marginal tear to B6. An address by Henry Dundas Viscount Melville 1742-1811 regarding accusations of misconduct in his role as treasurer of the Royal Navy during the period of the Napoleonic Wars. A Parliamentary commission had revealed discrepancies within the accounts and instances of the breaking of regulations. The irony being that the legislation that Melville was charged with breaching was that which he himself had passed in 1785 to put right the disorderly finances of the service. . First edition. 8vo. Printed for Peter Hill hardcover
1805NUNee[DU18London: Printed For John Stockdale 1805. 1805. 8vo. pp. 111 1ads. disbound foxing to outer leaves. First Edition. Goldsmiths' 19047. Kress B4942. F. London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1805. unknown
1806015971London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806. Book measures 22x14.5.cm. Collation iv xcv 8 3-7 1 blank 9-120 121-230 121-378 8. engraved frontis. portrait. Bound in early half calf calf corners marble boards raised bands gilt lines leather label. Light abrasion wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners bookplate light spotting mainly to endpapers and first few pages of text. Pages in very good clean condition. A very nice copy. F. Half Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme Hardcover
1851PELst[ME23London: Chas. Cox & J.Effingham Wilson 1851. 1851. 8vo. pp. xiv 392. 1 map of Storm Bay. title vignette. original blind-stamped cloth rebacked with spine mounted. First Edition. According to the preface the author had resided for more than twenty years in the colonies. His work includes discussion of emigration the present state of the colonies of New South Wales Western Australia South Australia Victoria and New Zealand prison discipline - with suggestions for obviating the difficulties attending the transportation of convicts the penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land trade and manufactures land regulations the aborigines and their customs. Bagnall 3504n. Ferguson 12467. F. Hardcover. London: Chas. Cox & J.Effingham Wilson, 1851. Hardcover
185137179New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. The "Town Ho's Story" appeared on pages 659-665 in the October 1851 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. It was the first appearance of any part of the great novel Moby Dick and became chapter 54 in the book. A publisher's note on page 659 says: "From The Whale the title of a new work by Mr. Melville now in the press of Harper and Brothers and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley." The chapter concerns a potential mutiny and the appearance of Moby Dick that thwarted the uprising. It was a first report of the white whale while at sea. <br /> <br /> The volume is bound in modern black leatherette over cream paper covered boards with paper title labels to spine. Light wear to covers. Interior pages have occasional spots of foxing and browning. Very good condition. 864 pages. PER/031424. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
186632237New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes the first printing of Melville's poem "The Cumberland" on page 474. Also includes chapters from "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins. In the original paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Heavy chipping / loss to paper on top and bottom of spine about two inches of loss not affecting the title. Rubbing and light soiling to covers. Occasional spots of foxing to interior. Illustrated. Pages 409 - 544 plus advertisements. PER/050718. Harper & Brothers hardcover
185432374New York: Harper & Brothers 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This volume contains three early short stories by Herman Melville: "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" pages 95-101 "The Happy Failure" pages 196-199 and "The Fiddler" pages 536-539. They were published anonymously. Includes articles about a lunatic asylum "idiots" galvanoplasty gambling houses in Germany rights and wrongs of woman wolf nurses in India several chapters from Thackeray's "Newcomes" and much more. Bound in the original black cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. A few chips to book cloth along spine ends hinges covers edges and corners. Bookplate of George J. Burns to front pastedown. Dark brown offsetting from glue used in binding to endpapers. Text pages are clean overall with scattered foxing and ocassional soiling throughout. Dampstaining to corners of several pages mostly in June issue. Illustrated throughout. Includes all six fashion plates. 864 pages. LIT/051418. Harper & Brothers hardcover