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Herman Melville's library

The books Herman Melville and his family are known to have owned or borrowed, from the catalogue scholars have kept since Merton Sealts began it in 1948.

679 books

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The best-known books on these shelves

All 679 books, by author

Titles we couldn't find (58)

The catalogue lists these, but they have no page here: some are rare or long out of print, and some are pamphlets or magazine issues.

  • 2 Plays · William Shakespeare · no copy found online
  • After His Kind · John Williamson Palmer · 1886
  • Arcturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion · 1841 (borrowed) · Internet Archive scan
  • Christmas Book · no copy found online
  • Christmas Story · no copy found online
  • Family Library · 1830 · Internet Archive scan
  • Floral Tableaux · James Andrews · 1846 · no copy found online
  • Grace C. E (borrowed) · Open Library (uncertain identification)
  • Harper's Weekly · 1857 · Open Library
  • Homer · Homer · Internet Archive scan
  • Household Words · 1850 (family copy) · Internet Archive scan
  • Lays and Legends of the Rhine · James Robinson Planché · 1832 · no copy found online
  • Life Confession & Execution, of Mr. & Mrs. Manning, for the Murder of Mr. O'Conner, with Copies of the Letters · 1849 · no copy found online
  • Livy · Livy · Internet Archive scan
  • London "Old Map of London (1766) · no copy found online
  • Magdalen and Marcia · Elizabeth Caroline Grey · 1849 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • Masonic Mirror and Symbolic Chart · 1819 · no copy found online
  • Melancholy · Robert Burton · 1801 · HathiTrust full view
  • Ovid · Ovid · no copy found online
  • Panorama of the Rhine · no copy found online
  • Poems · Caroline Norton · 1833 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • Poems Narrative · Rossiter Johnson · 1881 · Open Library (series record)
  • Putnam's Magazine · 1853 · Open Library
  • Sailing Directions for the Eastern Portion of the Mediterranean Sea · 1852 · no copy found online
  • Schiller's Pegasus in the Yoke, with Explanations of the Illustrations · Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller · 1857 · no copy found online
  • Superstition and Knowledge · Sir Francis Palgrave · 1823 · Internet Archive scan
  • Synonymes français, par Diderot, D'Alembert, et de Jaucourt · Denis Diderot · 1800 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • Tales · George Gordon Byron · 1837 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • The (Old) Farmer's Almanack, Calculated on a New and Improved Plan, for the Year of Our Lord 1877 · 1877 · Internet Archive scan (year unverified)
  • The Academy · 1869 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Bijou · 1828 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments · 1845 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Canons of Good Breeding · 1839 (family copy) · Internet Archive scan
  • The Comédie Humaine and Its Author, with Translations from the French of Balzac · H. H Walker · 1879 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Continental Annual, and Romantic Cabinet, for 1832 · 1832
  • The Dollar Magazine · 1848 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Edinburgh Review · 1803 (borrowed) · Internet Archive scan
  • The Evening Hymn · James Drummond Burns · 1857 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • The Illustrated Magazine of Art · 1853
  • The Last of the McAllisters · Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr · 1889 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • The Literary World · 1847 · Internet Archive scan
  • The London Carcanet · London Carcanet · 1831 · no copy found online
  • The Mermaid Series · 1887 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Modern British Essayists
  • The Musical Gem · 1845 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • The Poetry of Love, from the Most Celebrated Authors, with Several Original Pieces · 1844 · no copy found online
  • The Quarterly Review · 1834 (borrowed) · Internet Archive scan
  • The Recreation · 1846 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Scottish Art Review · 1888
  • The Shorter Stories and Tales of Honoré de Balzac · Honoré de Balzac · no copy found online
  • The Tatler · 1830 · Internet Archive scan
  • The Teacher's Manual · William Freeman Lloyd · 1827 (family copy) · no copy found online
  • The United States Democratic Review · 1838 (borrowed) · Internet Archive scan
  • The Works of Eminent Masters, in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Decorative Art · Works of Eminent Masters · 1854 · HathiTrust full view
  • Views in Scotland, from Original Drawings by T. L. Rowbotham with Descriptive Notes · William John Loftie · 1875 · no copy found online
  • Virgil · Virgil · 1837 · HathiTrust full view
  • Webster's Calendar · 1877 · Open Library (other years)
  • Yankee Doodle · 1846 · Internet Archive scan

Source: Melville's Marginalia Online (eds. Christopher Ohge et al.), after Merton M. Sealts Jr., Melville's Reading