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18512020008The first appearance of any part of Melville's Moby-Dick! "The Town-Ho's Story" would become chapter 54 of the classic novel.<br /><br />Harper & Brothers New York 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. Black leather with matching corners dark brown boards with gilt spine label. 864 pp. total the Town-Ho's Story is 8 pages starting on p. 658 With a the footnote: "From 'THE WHALE." The title of a new work by Mr. Melville in the press of Harper and Brothers and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."<br /><br />Additionally a wealth of other mid-19th century light reading including "The Treason of Benedict Arnold" by Benson Lossing immediately following as well as such page-turners as "Somnambulism" and "Visit to Laplanders." Harper and Brothers hardcover
1852009008NY: Harper & Brothers. First edition. Six issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume III: June - November 1851 leather bound. Published NY: Harper & Brothers 1852. 8vo. viii864pp. illustrated throughout with engravings. The first appearance in print of any part of Moby Dick. Gilt tooled full leather all edge gilting yellow endpapers. Leather backstrip missing covers intact binding tight stain darkening to area on front cover stamp of Adriance Memorial Library on verso no other markings. Good. Internally very good pages clean bright with minimal foxing. . Good. Hard. 1st. 1852. Harper & Brothers unknown
18533377London: G. Baxter 1853. Two framed prints of famous images. One is entitled: "Australia. News from Home". This first depicting a group of men inside a wooden building in Australia. Two of whom appear indigenous. The other entitled: "News from Abroad". This showing a family gathered around for the reading of a letter whilst on the wall there is a poster promoting emigration to Australia. Both from paintings by Harden Sidney Melville and engraved printed and published by G. Baxter. They are cropped so no longer have the Baxter stamp at the bottom. Tipped on to card and mounted in wooden frames under glass. Each measures: 110 mm x 150 mm. Total size including frame: 260 mm x 290 mm. They have a label to the rear which says they were framed by The Petersfield Book Shop. In very good condition. Price is for the pair. G. Baxter unknown
18533377London G. Baxter 1853
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
18944511London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1894. Octavo 52 pages. Advertisements with thirteen plates mostly chromolithographs of various whole animal and prime cuts. Second and last printing. This small military guidebook is mostly aimed at providing an outline for detecting substandard meat through inspection. The detailed chromolithograph illustrations include various sides and cuts of ox bull heifer old cow whether and ewe. A few neat ink notes to one of the black and white plates. Fine in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. OCLC locates ten copies of this printing just two in the US. Harrison and Sons, Ltd hardcover books
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
1849019049London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover
1849019049London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover books
181142074Philadelphia: London Printed: Philadelphia Reprinted 1811. 29 3 blanks pp. Disbound Good plus.<br /> <br /> We need more missionaries to convert benighted Africans.<br /> LCP 4958. London, Printed: Philadelphia, Reprinted unknown
181115786Boston 1811. Second American Edition 28 7 1 pp. Disbound and loosening. Good. unknown books
186923330San Francisco: H.H.Bancroft and Company 1869. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 200 pp in original brown pebbled cloth with title stamped in gilt on front board. Ex-library with call number on spine lacking front free endpaper. Binding sound text clean. A scarce edition of this compilation which was also published in the same year by Appleton as the second part of Browne's "Resources of the Pacific Slope." Includes: Taylor's Historical Summary of Lower California from its Discovery in 1532 to 1867; Scammon's Exploration of Lower California; Journal of the Expedition of Mr. J.D. Hawks and Party Through the Interior of the Peninsula of Lower California from San Domingo to San Diego; Report of Dr. John A. Veatch on Cerros or Cedros Island; Extracts from a History of Old or Lower California by Padre Francisco Javier Clavijero; Washington Territory Historical Memoir unattributed; and Historical Sketch of Nevada Including Boundaries Population Aboriginal Inhabitants Early Settlements &c. unattributed. Cowan p. 79. H.H.Bancroft and Company hardcover
1817907F37London: J. Hatchard 1817 . First edition. Unbound. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The very scarce first edition of this essay from Anglican clergyman and British missionary Melville Horne. A very scarce first edition from this prominent Anglican figure a man who campaigned for all British Protestants to unite in a common missionary enterprise.In this essay he calls upon English patriots to defend the country against 'the Jacobins' who are 'spreading their pernicious principles'.His rousing statements include 'personal liberty is the first and most essential branch of civil liberty' and 'kill or be killed'. He commends the late William Pitt and condemns the radicalism of the French Revolution warning that it may shortly take place in England too if the people do not resist.With publisher's advertisements to the final leaf. Unbound as issued. Significant handling marks and age toning to first and final leaf. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd spot. Good J. Hatchard unknown
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau. The Volta Bureau unknown
189553862Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments. The Volta Bureau unknown
189553862Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper selfwrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
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
185176908Bath N.Y.:: R. L. Underhill & Co. 1851. First edition. publisher's blind-embossed cloth. Front and rear free endpapers lacking; foxing throughout; light use to cloth. . 12mo. R. L. Underhill & Co., hardcover
1858176630London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. Circa1858. Engraving 12.5 x 18.4 cm margins a little toned but in very good condition. Fine engraving prepared for R. Montgomery Martin's "Indian Empire". . (The London Printing and Publishing Company). unknown
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
185490374George Baxter. c.1854. Etching wood engraving 125 x 160mm on larger mount some creases to edges of mount ink stamp verso- "Webster Collection 5038" A famous image showing the preconceptions of colonial life in the Australian bush. The timber hut not only has have a variety of animal life but also an aborigine dressed in a Maori cloak. This misconception of aboriginal dress had also been used by George French Angas in his image "Interior of Mount Gambier". Settlers reading letters and a dog and game on the floor with a parrot on a perch. George Baxter 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
1812003905original letter. BULLER Sir Edward 1764-1824. Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Melville concerning his anticipated promotion to Vice-Admiral and continuation of command at Plymouth Dock during the Napoleonic Wars. Plymouth Dock 7 August 1812. Single sheet folded bifolium written on the front side. Embossed crest at head. 230 x 185mm. Old folds a little browned and creased several small marginal stains but overall clean and very good. A naval letter written by Vice Admiral Sir Edward Buller to Robert Dundas 2nd Viscount Melville then First Lord of the Admiralty at the end of Buller's navy career. Writing from Plymouth Dock on 7 August 1812 Buller notes the widespread expectation that a promotion of flag officers will shortly occur on 12 August adding that he himself expects in consequence to become a Vice-Admiral. He respectfully requests permission to remain at Plymouth until the completion of his three-year term as second in command observing that previous officers at the port had received similar indulgence from the Admiralty. The letter is written by Buller at the precise moment before his final promotion to Vice-Admiral on 12 August 1812. Despite his request his active employment effectively ended shortly afterwards giving the letter a faintly valedictory character as an appeal to prolong his useful service. Sir Edward Buller was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who served throughout the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He commanded HMS Britannia at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 under Admiral Jervis later held senior Mediterranean commands and was created a baronet in 1809. Appointed second in command at Plymouth in 1809 he remained there during an important wartime period before his promotion to Vice-Admiral in August 1812. Contemporary anecdotes portray Buller as a firm but respected officer. A good Napoleonic naval letter directly connected to Buller's final promotion and moments in ther Navy. Addressed to one of the most important Admiralty figures of the period. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1812. original letter paperback
18906040141890. "Melville D. Landon" in black fountain pen ink n.d. ca. 1890. 5" x 3"; 1 page recto only. Very good. "And my heaven continue to protect you from Yours truly' "Eli Perkins" Melville D. Landon Fifth Ave. Hotel New York.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown
