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.