Hordern House are pleased to announce that we have partnered with three other international dealerships—William Reese Company and James Cummins Bookseller in the US and Peter Harrington in the UK—to offer the renowned collection of the late David Parsons of Atlanta, GA.
The first catalogue of books from the collection demonstrates the exceptional strength of the collection in early material, showing the known world before Columbus, and the results and consequences of the Columbian discoveries.
Part II: Discoveries to the East is currently in preparation and will follow later this year. Please contact us if you would like early notice of this.

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We are pleased to offer voyage and travel books principally relating to the Pacific Northwest from the library of Frank Sawyer Bayley III.

Including natural history with the rare first printing of one of Alfred Russel Wallace’s most significant papers: his important text on butterfly variation on the Malay Peninsula; fine illustrated books, literature, and a rare manuscript letter by James Cook, signed by him, written just prior to the arduous second voyage.

Including the rare large paper issue of Raffles'  History of Java (1817) and the first illustrated work on Vietnam by John Barrow (1806).

We offer here an attractive small group of Pickwicks.
Described in the 1930s as “one of the three or four most remarkable books in the whole course of English literature”, perception of that status may have changed a little in the century since, but Dickens’ great and sympathetic classic remains a highpoint of both literature and collecting.