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The Thomas W. Streeter-William S. Reese copy. This is a presentation copy, inscribed on the titlepage: "To the Dorchester Antiquarian Society with the regard of John D'Wolf." This copy has the bookplates of the Dorchester Antiquarian Society and Thomas W. Streeter on the verso of the front wrapper, and of William S. Reese on the interior of the clamshell case. According to Sabin, only one hundred copies of this book were printed. A very rare Pacific voyage account by an uncle of Herman Melville. As a young man, in 1805, Captain D'Wolf sailed the Bristol brig Juno via Cape Horn to Sitka, sold her to the Russian governor there and returned with Langsdorff via Siberia. It was on the newly acquired Juno that Rezanov sailed to San Francisco in early March 1806 to buy supplies for the Russian settlers. "One of the rarest of Pacific voyages.After staying with Governor Alexander Baranov, of the Russian American Company at New Archangel [Sitka], D'Wolf, an uncle of Herman Melville and mentioned by him in MOBY DICK and REDBURN, accepted Baranov's [i.e., Rezanov's] invitation to accompany him across Siberia to St. Petersburg, with Baron Georg von Langsdorff. In his narrative, D'Wolf expresses the opinion that he was the first American to make the journey" - Hill. "From our point of view it is fortunate that D'Wolf published this account as it gives many interesting and important details regarding a difficult period in the life of the Russians in Alaska (sickness, near starvation, constant dangers from the Koloshes, etc.).This work by D'Wolf is a highly desirable - and very rare - addition to the original contemporary source material on Alaska, and on Siberia as well. D'Wolf's background and character are such that we can give full credence to his remarks and observations" - Lada-Mocarski. D'Wolf's experiences certainly had a major impact on his nephew, Herman Melville, who grew up hearing stories of D'Wolf's Pacific voyages. Melville would use D'Wolf's experiences as an inspiration, writing in Chapter 45 of Moby Dick that his uncle, "who, after a long life of unusual adventures as a sea captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston." Melville also mentions D'Wolf in Redburn. This is among the rarest of ancillary Melville narratives. This must have been one of the last books that Thomas W. Streeter acquired for his famed collection, bought by him from Goodspeed's in early 1965 for $300. Streeter died on June 12, 1965, and this book appeared in the sixteenth session of his sale, on April 22, 1969. It was acquired by H.P. Kraus for $500; William S. Reese acquired this copy for his Melville collection in 2008. Two other copies have appeared at auction since this Thomas W. Streeter copy: the Frank S. Streeter copy sold for $14,400 in 2007, and the Martin Greene copy (sold to him by this firm and with four plates and a photograph of the author mounted in) sold for $37,500 in 2017. HILL 527. SABIN 19883. LADA-MOCARSKI 148. HOWES D310, "c." STREETER SALE 3526 (this copy). WICKERSHAM 6666. NERHOOD 134. Original printed tan wrappers. Wrappers a bit stained and foxed, splitting along lower joint of front wrapper. Quite clean and fresh internally. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.
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