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		Acquisitions December 2008
		For the month of December we have made a special selection of beautiful rare books for the Holiday Season. Inside are some very handsome sets of literature including John Bell's British Theatre, Nonesuch Press' The Works of Shakespeare and a charming set of Shelley's Verse and Prose. Also included, a splendid early seventeenth-century printing of Thomas More's Utopia, an unusually fine copy of the delightfully illustrated children's book History of the Hoppers and a fine and beautiful copy of Coleridge's Christabel: Kubla Khan and much more. We have also included a selection of new books including some of our own publications. In it we announce the release of our latest publication The Celebrated George Barrington by Nathan Garvey with a special introductory offer available until Christmas.
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		Acquisitions (Melbourne Book Fair Oct 2008)
		Our November acquisitions list acts as a guide for the items we will be exhibiting at the Melbourne ANZAAB Book Fair this weekend. With a total of 48 items, highlights include two of the most beautiful Australian colour plate books, a very good copy of Eugene von Guerard's sublime Australian Landscapes, and a very attractive example of Joseph Lycett's Views in Australia. Also included is the first separately-published book on Australian botany, James Edward Smith's Specimen of the Botany of New Holland and Kasuare, a presentation manuscript on the cassowaries of northeastern Australia and New Guinea probably by John Gerrard Keulemans. Listed also are two handsome uncut sets, Captain George Grey's Journals of Two Expeditions and George Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales in original boards.
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		Acquisitions October 2008
		Our October acquistions list takes the theme of Gold in Australia. The highlight is undoubtedly a fine 1855 watercolour of the Government Camp in Ballarat, painted by Captain Justin McCarthy, an officer of the 40th Regiment, just one year after the suppression of Eureka and one of the earliest extant images of this important site. There is a good copy of Gill’s Victoria Illustrated, a rare 1853 Danish handbook for emigrants, a contemporary manuscript cartoon of a nugget displayed in Melbourne (the image was later published in the Illustrated London News), and an excellent copy of J.C.F. Johnson’s To Mount Brown and Back in its original pictorial wrappers.
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		Acquisitions September 2008
		An attractive list including a rarely seen map of Australian waters which shows two manuscript voyage tracks (of the Neptune and the Barque Eagle) in the 1830s and 1840s, a handsome prize medal for lithography awarded to Edward Gilks in 1854, William Dampier's Continuation of a Voyage in a beautiful contemporary binding, a suite of design documents for the missionary steamer Southern Cross which foundered off the east coast of New Zealand in 1860, and a particularly handsome copy of Smith and Sowerby's Exotic Botany
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		Acquisitions August 2008
		The third Hordern House list in our new format. This diverse list includes the very rare 1693 Nouvelle geographie of Martiny with a significant note on "Terra Australis", Threlkeld's important compendium An Australian Language, a French surveying and topographical work said to be from Phillip Parker King's library, a friendly letter from Charles Duffy to Sir Henry Parkes, a fine set of the unusual "Anspach" edition of Cook's third voyage in German, and Westall's beautiful Views of Australian Scenery in its original decorative wrappers.
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		Acquisitions July 2008
		The second Hordern House list in our new format, designed to suit screen or print alike. This eclectic list includes a splendid copy of Erasmus Darwin's eccentric Zoonomia, a French cartoon lampooning popular publishing and plagiarised voyage books from around 1800, a handsome copy of the first edition of Shillibeer's rare Narrative of the Briton's Voyage to Pitcairn's Island, and a fine Wegdwood portrait medallion of Dr John Fothergill, patron of Sydney Parkinson.
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		Acquisitions June 2008
		Hordern House is delighted to present our latest acquisitions list, the first to be issued in our new format, which is designed to suit screen or print alike. This list of 24 rarities includes a wonderful pamphlet on fishes collected during the Beagle voyage, an exceptional copy of Kerguelen’s voyage in search of Terre Australe, and an almost unrecorded Arthur Rackham title with its original printed envelope, sent to South Australia around 1910.
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	Longitude
	Here are the central works regarding the struggle to solve the riddle of longitude, one of the great scientific achievements, and fundamental to eighteenth-century navigation. As Dava Sobel’s surprising bestseller Longitude shows, it was the indefatigable clockmaker John Harrisonand his famous chronometers that provided the answer to calculating longitude. Together with the concomitant eradication of scurvy,Harrison was fundamental to the ensuing dominance of English voyages and exploration.
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	The First Published Accounts of Australia
	A collection of foundation books of European discovery and settlement of Australia, with fine copies of First Fleet books including a coloured Phillip and both Watkin Tench's Narrative and Complete Account. Other noteworthy works include the official voyage accounts of Cook, Vancouver, and Flinders, the Minutes of the proceedings against the Bounty mutineers, and a set of the works of George Barrington in exceptional condition.
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	Books, Manuscripts and Prints, including Important Works of Navigation, Ships and the Sea
	Including several important editions by Arago on the Freycinet expedition, the uncommon Narrative of the Melancholy Shipwreck of the Charles Eaton, John Cushing's Exotic Gardener (the first published work on growing "Botany Bay plants"), a superb copy of John Eyre's Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, Gill's Sketches in Victoria and Nixon's Views of Adelaide, a rare memoir of Labillardière as well as the first French edition of the account of his voyage in search of La Pérouse, and a fantastic manuscript compilation detailing sailing conditions in Australian and Pacific waters.
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	Important Manuscripts, Rare books, Documents
	Including a beautiful copy of Webber's Views in the South Seas, important and substantial manuscripts by Louis-Claude de Freycinet, John Macarthur, William Wordsworth and John Eyre, a fine watercolour by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, the first Italian edition of the voyages of La Pérouse, important voyage books including Colnett's Voyage to the South Atlantic and Dixon's Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales, as well as beautiful costume books by Wahlen and the rare Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales by James Wallis.
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	Scurvy
	An outstanding collection of the most important eighteenth-century books on scurvy, including the very rare first edition of James Lind's Treatise on the Scurvy and Sir John Pringle's address to the Royal Society on behalf of Captain Cook, as well as the important contributions of John Clark, Gilbert Blane, Thomas Trotter and David Macbride. Each of the individual titles is of great rarity and only infrequently offered for sale; such a collection represents many years of assiduous collecting, and is one of the best and most complete ever assembled.
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	Voyages, Views, Maps, Australiana
	A wonderful list, including a lovely copy of the Florilegium by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, and a very rare and beautiful mid-nineteenth-century educational frieze of the Pacific by Jundt. Also included are the important voyage accounts of Georg Forster, Captain Beechey and Louis de Bougainville, as well as a rare offprint by Freycinet on the voyage of the Bonite. There are also several important maps by Jan Jansson, Matthäus Merian and Sebastian Munster, as well as the beautiful full-length portrait of Omai by Bartolozzi.
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