The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VI

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Lot 117
  • 117

Melville, Herman

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Melville, Herman
  • Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; being a sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands". London: John Murray, 1847
  • Paper
8vo (176 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, map frontispiece, 16pp. publisher's adverts at end, original red cloth stamped in blind, rebacked preserving original spine, some offsetting and soiling to endpapers

Provenance

Unidentified armorial bookplate ("e cura quies"); Alan Fortunoff (1932-2000); his sale, Bloomsbury London, 4 June 2004, lot 385

Literature

BAL 13655 (state A [?] with signature mark P fully printed)

Catalogue Note

Also published in two volumes in wrappers, Murray's first edition preceded the American edition by a month.