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.
Opera omnia in quatuor tomos…
Frankfurt, 1617
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
US$1,802.99 Other currencies
Ref: #4505196
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.
London, 1803
Price (AUD):
$18,750.00
US$14,085.84 Other currencies
Ref: #5000263
Etchings…
[Derbyshire], probably circa 1835
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
US$1,464.93 Other currencies
Ref: #4505166
Undine… Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney…
London, 1909
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
US$2,065.92 Other currencies
Ref: #4505146
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations…
London, 1933
Sold
Ref: #4505147
Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre incognite Australi, ed al paese delle Scimie.
Naples, 1756-1775
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
US$2,704.48 Other currencies
Ref: #4505041
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World… By Lemuel Gulliver…
London, [28 October] 1726
Price (AUD):
$87,500.00
US$65,733.92 Other currencies
Ref: #4505165