Search Results: Authors starting with E from Hordern House Rare Books

London: William H. Allen and Co, 1837. Octavo, with four folding maps; a fine copy in full navy gilt morocco. A fine copy of this engaging account of travels in the East Indies, especially Java and the Malay Peninsula. The voyage that Earl describes started from Western Australia, and his appendix includes "Observations on the Unexplored Parts of North and North-Western Australia". The most important section of the book is the long description of Singapore and discussion of its prospects. Earl adds a 14-page article at the end, "Observations on the Unexplored Parts of North and North-western Australia". Many years later he wrote the Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia (published Singapore 1862), a useful book in the settlement of the Northern Territory. . Provenance: Geoffrey Ingleton (renowned Sydney collector, d.1998; with bookplate).

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. A very good copy.. Octavo, with five plates (four coloured) and two folding maps; half morocco. Important anthropological observations on the natives of New Guinea, but also on the North Australian Aborigines: chapter XII is devoted to Melville Island, Port Essington and North Australia in general, and one of the folding plates gives anthropometric comparisons between North Australian Aborigines and New Guinea natives. There are numerous discussions of Australian Aborigines elsewhere in the text, particularly those of Melville Island and Port Essington. The fine full-page handcoloured lithographs, produced in London, were based on drawings done on the spot by the Dutch artists Van Oort and Van Raalten. This is the first edition, separate issue (another version had the series-title "Ethnographical Library" which here only appears as an imprint on the plates). This copy is from the library of Archibald Liversidge, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Sydney,… Read More

London: John Debrett, 1783. Some very light foxing, a good copy.. Octavo, 26pp, disbound. A printed letter critical of Thomas Townshend's involvement as Home Secretary in the affairs of the East India Company, published before the contentious resignation of Warren Hastings as Governor of Bengal. The letter was addressed by Lord Bellamont to the Earl of Shelburne, then Prime Minister in the final months of the American War of Independence. Bellamont, an inveterate letter-writer, was an Irish peer and a pest; painted by Reynolds, he was known as the "Hibernian Seducer". Coote's pamphlet charges Townshend with having overstepped the bounds of his authority in the controversy surrounding Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal. Hastings had aroused animosity in exposing the endemic corruption and cronyism of British merchants in India; when the Directors of the East India Company sought his removal, Townshend intervened and stated that the dismissal was 'directly repugnant to the sense of the House of… Read More

Brattleboro: by the Author, 1849. Some browning.. Octavo, a fine copy in blind-stamped publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine. First edition: a lurid denunciation of John Humphrey Noyes's famous American utopian community at Putney. Noyes was the charismatic founder of the 'Perfectionist' community in Putney Vermont. Already suspect to Church authorities, Noyes's belief that the Second Coming had taken place was controversial, and his rejection of monogamy in favour of a rigorously controlled 'complex' of marriages, infamous. Noyesism Unveiled, by the otherwise unknown writer Hubbard Eastman, resident of Putney, was one of the key texts designed, as Eastman admitted with alliterative elan, to 'exhibit the pernicious principles propagated by Mr. Noyes and his coadjutors.' Indeed, the outraged locals did compel the Perfectionists to move, which led to the founding of the famous community in Oneida, New York. Oneida flourished for over thirty years, and although it continued to be accused of free love… Read More

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1877. Very fine.. Four lithographed plates measuring 552 x 362 mm., one coloured; with accompanying text comprising two unopened quarto gatherings, both plates and text separately preserved in the publisher's blue printed titling wrappers. Beautifully preserved monograph on the New Guinea echidna, with four large lithographed plates of the highest standard. The first is coloured and illustrates the echidna in profile, with details of the paws and snout. The other three plates are osteological. Both the plates and accompanying text are complete (the wrappers of the text volume noting the work will comprise three fascicles when finished). The monograph is from the press of Arthus Bertrand, notable for publishing many of the great French voyage accounts of the nineteenth-century, including Peron and Freycinet, Duperrey and Hyacinthe de Bougainville. The author, Paul Gervais, was a French zoologist and palaeontologist who studied at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He later… Read More

Adelaide: House of Assembly, 1893. A very good copy.. Folio, with two large colour folding maps; uncut in recent cloth. One of only 750 copies published: this rare printing is not recorded by Ferguson. Sir Thomas Elder, who had earlier financed the first great desert journey of Ernest Giles, in 1891 fitted out the expedition of David Lindsay, the celebrated Northern Territory explorer and surveyor general. In 1883 Lindsay had led an expedition into Arnhem Land, travelling to the Gulf of Carpentaria. He went on to explore extensively in the MacDonnell Ranges region before his last and most important work, this scientifically equipped expedition made possible by the sole support of Sir Thomas Elder. The object of the expedition was to explore the unknown interior of Western Australia between the routes laid out by Forrest in 1874 and Giles in 1875 'for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia'. Lindsay's expedition arrived in Geraldton in January 1892, besieged by internal conflict: the… Read More

Adelaide: C.E. Bristow, 1893. Wrappers and boards well repaired.. Octavo, complete with maps; original wrappers and boards, preserved in a brown morocco bookform box. One of only 500 copies, complete with folding maps: the first edition of the narrative of one of the last great Australian exploring expeditions, written by its leader. Lindsay led this extensive expedition - it ran to eight men, forty-four camels and five Afghan camel drivers - organised by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society, and equipped by Sir Thomas Elder, to explore the unknown interior between South Australia and the west coast and to look for Leichhardt. .

Sydney: Hordern House, 2013. 135pp, 225 x 155mm, Case bound hardcover with dust jacket, colour illustrations. Hordern House is delighted to publish this new work by Elizabeth Ellis OAM, investigating the milieu and the mysteries of the magnificent "Sydney Punchbowl", one of the most fascinating treasures of the Mitchell Library collection of the State Library of New South Wales, a fine and large porcelain bowl manufactured in China as export ware about 1820. The Punchbowl is decorated with a hand-painted panoramic scene of Sydney Cove around the outside and a group of Aboriginal figures as the inner centre-piece, and finished with exquisite Chinese-style floral and gilded bandings. As Elizabeth's essay makes clear, the Punchbowl and its intriguing history deserves to be better known, which is why Hordern House is also issuing a deluxe limited edition replica, hand-crafted by Chinese craftsmen in Jingdezhen, China, usually known as the 'porcelain city'. This book also includes a brief essay on the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1817. Binding a bit worn and backstrip rubbed but quite sound. Internally fresh and clean.. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), vii, [1], 526, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf, portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, seven fine hand-coloured plates, three engraved maps (one folding, two lightly browned). Old speckled calf. First edition, with fine color plates which do not appear in later editions. This is the authorised account of the diplomatically ill-fated Amherst embassy to the Chinese Emperor at Peking. Amherst refused to 'kow-tow' to the Emperor Khien Lung and was immediately dismissed. Nevertheless, the expedition itself was of great interest: on the outward journey the Alceste had visited Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Java, and Macao. Homeward-bound the ship was wrecked off the coast of Sumatra and a replacement vessel was required for the rest of the journey via St. Helena. There Amherst met with the exiled Napoleon, and a detailed description of their meeting is recorded… Read More

London: Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1829. Some light staining around the plates as often, both frontispieces lightly offset onto title-pages; otherwise a fine copy.. Two volumes, octavo, with portrait of Pomare, two folding maps, seven engraved plates and 16 wood engravings; handsome contemporary binding of half brown morocco gilt, all edges marbled with matching endpapers. First edition: a handsomely bound copy of one of the most important works on the history and ethnology of the Society Islands, by one of the most perceptive of the missionary travellers in the Pacific. This is 'une des sources les plus abondantes pour l'histoire de l'ancien Tahiti...' (O'Reilly-Reitman). Forbes notes that "there are occasional references and comparisons between Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands throughout the text, all the more important since Ellis was a resident of both island groups". Robert Southey, who reviewed it on publication, enthused that "a more interesting book we have never perused" The work begins with… Read More

Paris, 1778. Good.. Engraving, 155 x 280 mm., some rubbing. View from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage towards the South Pole, showing the landing at Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides Islands. .

Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1802. Two volumes, octavo text [16], CLXVIII (i.e. 168), 185 pages; folded letterpress table between pp. 168-169, and errata leaf (p. 185) at end: and the accompanying Atlas, small folio, [4] pages (letterpress title-page and "Explicacion" table of contents, 17 fine engraved plates comprising nine maps (four folding) and eight illustrations (two folding) of scenes of the Pacific Northwest and its native inhabitants. Original speckled calf, excellent copies but for blue ownership stamps on title-page of the atlas. A work of great rarity, one of the scarcest of Pacific voyages and an important account of this expedition, the last great Spanish exploration of the Northwest coast of America. The atlas volume contains a series of plates of Nootka of great ethnographic importance including two remarkable large folding aquatints, atmospheric depictions of Nootka and its people, one of them the famous quite riotous scene of the festival given by the powerful chief Macuina (Maquinna) to… Read More