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15/09/2024

Sydney's Yellamundie Library is one of the word's most beautiful and is one of of four finalists in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions annual Public Library of the Year award. (Photograph: Andrew Chung/FJC Studio/Liverpool City Council) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/sep/13/sydney-yellamundie-library-public-library-of-the-year-award-finalist

20/10/2023

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30/11/2022

California: island or peninsula? Two details from 18th Century maps: Henri Chatelain's world map of 1719, one of the most decorated ever produced, shows an island, and the second, almost half a century later, a peninsula, from Samuel Engel's "Memoires et Observations Géographiques et Critiques…". Engel made an important contribution in establishing the existence of an Arctic passage between Asia and America. 4504770 & 5000483 at hordern.com From our latest catalogue, Geographies & maritime accounts from a private collection.

10/10/2022

Beautiful intricate brushwork and detail in this original painting by natural history artist Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844), of an Australian Bronze-wing pigeon: the finest early depiction. From our latest catalogue. https://www.hordern.com/pages/catalogue/724/now-published

08/09/2022

From a vividly dramatised account of life in the Queensland bush published in Geneva in 1868, by a Swiss settler and writer Edouard Marcet. The unusual illustrations are actually a series of mounted photographs of drawings, an very early example of the genre: only 200 copies are known to have been printed. From our latest catalogue a selection of voyage accounts to Australia from a private collection.
https://www.hordern.com/pages/catalogue/723/books-from-a-private-collection-part-10-australia

07/07/2022

We are live Melbourne and it's glorious. Come & see until Saturday. See link in bio for our catalogue.

12/06/2022

"On the Same Page" : an article shortly to appear in Christies International Real Estate Magazine. ⁠ on the importance of a place for books and collecting: “Meet the rare book and manuscript dealers who can make your collecting dreams come true”. Hordern House are delighted to be featured, along with our friend and colleague Pom Harrington on the other side of the globe, in a worldwide view.

09/06/2022

Did the whale win? Frontispiece vignette from a very scarce French work on Pacific whaling and one of the principal sources for Hermann Melville's Moby Dick: "Pratique de la pèche de la Baleine dans les mers du sud" by Jules Lecomte (1832). From our new catalogue of 19th Century French voyage books.
https://www.hordern.com/pages/catalogue/716/books-from-a-private-collection-part-8-later-french-voyages

05/05/2022

Views of Nootka Sound, Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, and detail of Aleuts in their canoe, from three great voyage books by George Vancouver, Samuel Hearne, and Frederick William Beechey; highlights in our latest catalogue: English voyages after Cook. Beechey's voyage in its remarkable binding was the copy of an important 19th Century woman collector and subscriber to voyage books, Eliza Giffard.
https://www.hordern.com/pages/catalogue/714/books-from-a-private-collection-part-7-english-voyages-after-cook

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27/04/2022

Rare: the beautifully drawn and handcoloured plates of "The Entomology of Australia" make it one of the finest of all Australian illustrated natural history books, and one of a very select group of important colour-plate books on Australian natural history issued before 1840; others in this category include the famous books by Smith (catalogue number 38) and Lewin (catalogue numbers 28-30). Gray’s was the second separately published work on Australian entomology. All in our latest catalogue. See link in bio

26/11/2021

Wonderful frontispiece of the artist (& author) Pierre Sonnerat under a coco-de-mer palm from his important book on New Guinea, the Philippines & the Dutch East Indies published in 1776. From our latest catalogue. See link in bio.

10/10/2021

Hordern House is pleased to share a collaboration with Michael Reid OBJECT. Travel Through Objects is a collection which has been curated by Michael Reid OBJECT to whisk us away to our past escapes, reminding us of the great explorative thirst humans have had throughout history.
https://www.hordern.com/pages/press/162/travel-through-objects

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