MINTURN FAMILYMINTURN (WILLIAM) Travels West, FIRST EDITION, publisher's advertisements (September 1876), spine faded, Samuel Tinsley, 1877; George Douglas. A Dramatic Idyll in Three Acts by Defenthy Wright [William Minturn], 72 pages (text on verso only), typescript in purple, dramatis personae underlined in red ink throughout, pencil note "Minturns own work" on front free endpaper, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine tooled in gilt with green morocco lettering labels, marbled endpapers, 4to (238 x 182mm.), [?c.1878]--BARLOW (JOEL) The Vision of Columbus. A Poem... Fifth Edition, Corrected, MINTURN FAMILY COPY, engraved frontispiece (near loose), some browning to title, early ownership inscription of "Wm. Minturn Junr. 1798" (father of Robert Browne Minturn) on title-page, note gifting book from Robert's wife Anne Mary to the author William Minturn, who records that the book was "found in the library at No. 60 Fifth Avenue [the family home], Easter Sunday 1876. Wm. Minturn" inside upper cover, contemporary tree calf, upper joint slightly weakened, Paris, Printed at the English Press, 1793--MINTURN, JR (ROBERT BROWNE) From New York to Delhi, by Way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia and China, third edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS BROTHER, inscribed "William Minturn from his brother the author, Locust Wood, Oct. 2 1859" on front free endpaper, folding hand-coloured map, contemporary green calf gilt, g.e., New York, D. Appleton, 1859--HOLLAND (J.G.) Kathrina. Her Life and Mine in a Poem, William Minturn's copy with bookplate, an ownership name of his wife, Annie Hemphill, on the half-title, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., New York, Charles Scribner, 1869--DRAPER (JOHN WILLIAM) History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, eighth edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE-PAGE, William Minturn's copy with his bookplate, and cut signature pasted to title-page, New York, D. Appleton, 1877, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 2 others, both by Reid Mayne, one gifted to William Minturn from his sister in 1865, the other to Minturn from one of his teachers "as a reward for his application" (8)FootnotesA group of books by, or belonging to the American author William Minturn, son of the shipping magnate Robert Browne Minturn, who had met Emile Zola in Paris, and Walt Whitman in New York (see the copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass in this sale). Included is a typescript for a seemingly unpublished play, George Douglas, written under the pseudonym Defenthy Wright, which he also used for Aaron Burr. A Drama (1878), the one play of his published in his lifetime.
Provenance: William Minturn (1853-1882), ownership or gift inscriptions, or bookplates.
MINTURN FAMILYMINTURN (WILLIAM) Travels West, FIRST EDITION, publisher's advertisements (September 1876), spine faded, Samuel Tinsley, 1877; George Douglas. A Dramatic Idyll in Three Acts by Defenthy Wright [William Minturn], 72 pages (text on verso only), typescript in purple, dramatis personae underlined in red ink throughout, pencil note "Minturns own work" on front free endpaper, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine tooled in gilt with green morocco lettering labels, marbled endpapers, 4to (238 x 182mm.), [?c.1878]--BARLOW (JOEL) The Vision of Columbus. A Poem... Fifth Edition, Corrected, MINTURN FAMILY COPY, engraved frontispiece (near loose), some browning to title, early ownership inscription of "Wm. Minturn Junr. 1798" (father of Robert Browne Minturn) on title-page, note gifting book from Robert's wife Anne Mary to the author William Minturn, who records that the book was "found in the library at No. 60 Fifth Avenue [the family home], Easter Sunday 1876. Wm. Minturn" inside upper cover, contemporary tree calf, upper joint slightly weakened, Paris, Printed at the English Press, 1793--MINTURN, JR (ROBERT BROWNE) From New York to Delhi, by Way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia and China, third edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS BROTHER, inscribed "William Minturn from his brother the author, Locust Wood, Oct. 2 1859" on front free endpaper, folding hand-coloured map, contemporary green calf gilt, g.e., New York, D. Appleton, 1859--HOLLAND (J.G.) Kathrina. Her Life and Mine in a Poem, William Minturn's copy with bookplate, an ownership name of his wife, Annie Hemphill, on the half-title, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., New York, Charles Scribner, 1869--DRAPER (JOHN WILLIAM) History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, eighth edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE-PAGE, William Minturn's copy with his bookplate, and cut signature pasted to title-page, New York, D. Appleton, 1877, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 2 others, both by Reid Mayne, one gifted to William Minturn from his sister in 1865, the other to Minturn from one of his teachers "as a reward for his application" (8)FootnotesA group of books by, or belonging to the American author William Minturn, son of the shipping magnate Robert Browne Minturn, who had met Emile Zola in Paris, and Walt Whitman in New York (see the copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass in this sale). Included is a typescript for a seemingly unpublished play, George Douglas, written under the pseudonym Defenthy Wright, which he also used for Aaron Burr. A Drama (1878), the one play of his published in his lifetime.
Provenance: William Minturn (1853-1882), ownership or gift inscriptions, or bookplates.
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