- Lot 601
Typee, first American edition in wrappers
Herman Melville, 1846
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 602
Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives
Herman Melville, 1846
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 2,394Closed - Lot 603
Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives, a family copy
Herman Melville, 1846
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 604
Typee, presentation to Capt. Ball
Herman Melville, 1846
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 100,800Closed - Lot 606
Typee
Early editions & an advertisement, 1847-1876
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 607
Appointing John Broadhead as his London agent
Herman Melville, 13 January 1847
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,710Closed - Lot 610
Omoo, first American edition
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 4,032Closed - Lot 614
To an admirer of Omoo
Herman Melville, late 1840s.
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 617
Mardi, first American edition
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 619
Arranging his first meeting with publisher Richard Bentley
Herman Melville, 10 November [1849]
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 621
Redburn, Nathaniel Hawthorne's copy
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 52,920Closed - Lot 622
Redburn, uncut in original boards
New York, 1849
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 623
Redburn, remainder issue
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 626
White Jacket, the Doheny copy
New York, 1850
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,142Closed - Lot 627
White Jacket, remainder issue
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 629
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket
Owen Chase, 1821
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 50,400Closed - Lot 632
The Whale, Bentley remainder issue
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 50,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 327,600Closed - Lot 635
Mocha Dick, the Bradley Martin copy
J.N. Reynolds
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 637
On the rejection of "Two Temples" and refusing to be photographed
Herman Melville, 16 May 1854
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 638
Sending an installment of Israel Potter
Herman Melville, 16 August [1854].
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 639
Israel Potter, the Bradley Martin copy
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed - Lot 640
Israel Potter, the Doheny copy
New York, 1855
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,268Closed - Lot 642
To author Osmond Tiffany
Herman Melville, 26 August [1855]
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 643
To Harper Brothers
Herman Melville, 8 October [1855?]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 644
The Refugee, the Doheny Copy
Philadelphia, c.1865
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 882Closed - Lot 645EstimateUSD 700 - 1,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed
- Lot 648
The Piazza Tales, inscribed by Allan Melville
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Closed - Lot 649
The Piazza Tales, English issue
Herman Melville, 1856
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 650
The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville, 1857
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 10,080Closed - Lot 651
The Confidence Man, English edition
Herman Melville
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 652
Arranging a lecture on "The South Seas"
Herman Melville, 12 February 1859
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 653
Submitting "short pieces" for publication
Herman Melville, 18 May [1859].
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 11,970Closed - Lot 655
Battle-Pieces, inscribed
Herman Melville, 1866
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 138,600Closed - Lot 656
Clarel, the Doheny copy
Herman Melville, 1876
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 107,100Closed - Lot 657EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,394Closed
- Lot 663
An early business letter
Allan Melvill, 20 November 1806
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 664
Melville family shop sign
New York, 1818
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 665
Business papers of a failed merchant
Allan Melvill, 1801-1822
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,260Closed - Lot 665A
Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through the United States
Gansevoort Melville's copy, 1833
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 667
On his brother Herman's return from the sea
Allan Melville, 17 October 1844
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Closed - Lot 668
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe, 1838
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 10,080Closed - Lot 669EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 756Closed
- Lot 670
Log of the Whaleship Acushnet
after 1847
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 671
Kearsley’s Stranger's Guide to London
Melville family copy
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 11,970Closed - Lot 672
Obed Macy's History of Nantucket
Melville's own copy
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 56,700Closed - Lot 673
Documenting leisure trips in the Berkshires with Herman Melville & family
Augusta Melville, [June 1852]
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed - Lot 674
Life of Franklin Pierce by Hawthorne
Inscribed by Thomas Melville to a friend
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 504Closed - Lot 675
On Thomas Melville heading back to sea
Fanny Melville, 19 February 1854
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 676
To his brother Allan on his voyage to Scotland and his plans to visit Constantinople, Egypt and Italy
Herman Melville, 10-15 November 1856
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 40,320Closed - Lot 677
Dante's Divine Comedy
Herman Melville's heavily annotated copy
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 441,000Closed - Lot 678
The Golden Dagon by J.W. Palmer
Allan Melville's copy, a gift from his brother
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 679
Georgia Scenes by Longstreet
Allan Melville's copy, gifted to a friend
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 680
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley
Herman Melville's annotated copy
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Closed - Lot 681
Hazlitt's Lectures on English Comic Writers and Poets
Herman Melville's copy
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 682
Criticism on Art by William Hazlitt
Herman Melville's copy
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 683
Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors
Augusta Melville's copy
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 684
Swinburne's Laus Veneris
Herman Melville's copy
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 685
The Poetry of Love
A gift to Fanny Melville from Herman
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 7,560Closed - Lot 687
The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield
a gift from Herman to Fanny
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Closed - Lot 689
To autograph collector Edward Bok
Herman Melville, 10 December 1881
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 690
To poet Edmund Stedman
Herman Melville, 20 February 1888
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 9,450Closed - Lot 691
To E. C. Stedman on the republication of Melville's works
William Clark Russell, 9 April 1893
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 2,268Closed - Lot 693
Illustrations for Moby Dick
Rockwell Kent, 1930
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 201,600Closed - Lot 694
Moby-Dick, inscribed and specially bound
Rockwell Kent
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 695
Moby Dick
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 15,120Closed - Lot 696
LAKESIDE PRESS MOBY-DICK
Correspondence between Rockwell Kent and his publisher, plus ephemera
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 8,820Closed - Lot 697
Greenland journal and sketchbook
Rockwell Kent, c.1932
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 20,160Closed - Lot 698
Letters and notes
Rockwell Kent, 1905-1980s
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 699
MOBY DICK DINNERWARE
Rockwell Kent for Vernon Kilns, 1938-1939
EstimateUSD 700 - 900Price realisedUSD 2,394Closed - Lot 700
MOBY DICK DINNERWARE
Rockwell Kent for Vernon Kilns, 1938-1939
EstimateUSD 700 - 900Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed