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Lot 158
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1846.
8vo. Map of the Marquesas Islands bound before pg. [1]. (Lacking half-title and 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements.) 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked preserving original spine).
FIRST EDITION of Melville’s first book, second state of page 19 (“Pomare”), published just prior to the first American edition of the same year entitled Typee (see next lot). BAL 13652.