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$1,869.48 Other currencies
Ref: #4505196
"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption)…
England, circa 1795-1800
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
US$50,631.76 Other currencies
Ref: #4504922
Senilities; or, Solitary Amusements…
London & Bath, 1801
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
US$856.85 Other currencies
Ref: #5000269
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.
London, 1803
Price (AUD):
$18,750.00
US$14,605.31 Other currencies
Ref: #5000263
Scripta, quae extant, omnia…
Leipzig, 1691
Price (AUD):
$900.00
US$701.06 Other currencies
Ref: #4505197
Etchings…
[Derbyshire], probably circa 1835
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
US$1,518.95 Other currencies
Ref: #4505166
Characteres Generum Plantarum…
London, 1776
Price (AUD):
$14,000.00
US$10,905.30 Other currencies
Ref: #5000281
A Favourite Poodle Hatching Poultry!!
London, 1824
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
US$4,556.86 Other currencies
Ref: #5000267
Robeing Royalty, a treat for the Sandwichers…
London, 1824
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
US$4,089.49 Other currencies
Ref: #5000268
Undine… Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney…
London, 1909
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
US$2,142.11 Other currencies
Ref: #4505146
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations…
London, 1933
Price (AUD):
$3,750.00
US$2,921.06 Other currencies
Ref: #4505147
The Romance of King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's...
London, 1917
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
US$2,531.59 Other currencies
Ref: #4505151
La Nouvelle France. Journal de la Colonie Libre de Port-Breton [the first two years of...
Marseille, 15 June 1879 - 15 June 1881
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
US$9,347.40 Other currencies
Ref: #5000261
Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre incognite Australi, ed al paese delle Scimie.
Naples, 1756-1775
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
US$2,804.22 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$68,158.13 Other currencies
Ref: #4505165
Travels into Several remote Nations of the World… By Lemuel Gulliver…
London, 1726
Price (AUD):
$16,000.00
US$12,463.20 Other currencies
Ref: #4505164