Bookfairs

Firsts Netherlands 2021

Firsts Netherlands 2021

Hordern House is exhibiting at the inaugural online rare book & print Fair presented by our friends and colleagues at the Dutch Association of Antiquarian book dealers (NVvA) in collaboration with our British colleagues of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA). 1-3 October 2021.

2021 California Antiquarian Book Fair

2021 California Antiquarian Book Fair

The 2021 California Antiquarian Book Fair will be our 33rd California fair, though this year it will be a digital fair running from Thursday 4 March through Saturday 6 March. Every year until now we have taken a booth next door to our good friends at William Reese Company of New Haven, removing the wall between the stands and between us showing the best of America and Australia. Times change.

So this year we can’t be there physically while the world takes a breath, but we have made a selection of rare material to exhibit online in the spirit of the wonderful annual show, the west coast meeting of the biblio-tribes.

firsts 2021: London's Rare Book Fair

firsts 2021: London's Rare Book Fair

Hordern House is participating in firsts: London's Rare Book Fair, exclusively online 18th-23rd February.

Highlights include: Johann and Georg Forster's pioneer work on the botany of Australia and the South Pacific (pictured); a rare and beautiful lithograph work published by a naval office in provincial France on tattooing in the South Pacific; and the first two years of the Port-Breton journal La Nouvelle France spruiking the horrible fraud of the Marquis de Rays and his supposed paradise colony in New Guinea.