Lot 83
Melville, Herman
[Typee]
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Narrative of A Four Months’ Residence Among the Natives of the Marquesas Islands. London: Murray, 1846. First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt by Carss of Glasgow (with their ticket in two of the following volumes, uniformly bound), marbled endpapers and edges, xviii 285 pp., Marquesas Islands map p.[xviii], bookplate, no half-title or terminal advertisements, joints rubbed, lacking one spine label, p. 231 with area of loss to lower right corner of margin not affecting text, a few small areas of damp-staining,
Ibid. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. London: John Murray, 1847. First edition (preceding the U.S. edition of the same year), author's second book and sequel to ‘Typee’, 8vo, uniformly bound with the preceding work, xviv 321 pp., South Seas map frontispiece, no half-title or terminal advertisements, joints rubbed;
Together with two similar volumes, each containing two works and uniformly bound with the preceding items: 1) Henry William Haygarth, Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, During a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior, [bound with]: Henry Steffans, Adventures on the Road To Paris, During The Campaigns of 1813-14, London: John Murray, 1848, vi 162, viii 167 pp.; 2) William H. Edwards, A Voyage up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Pará, New edition, [bound with:] E. A. Milman, The Wayside Cross, London: John Murray, 1855 & 1847, viii 210 pp., iv 136 pp. (4)