Our new catalogue is now published including fine illustrated natural history, rare manuscripts and voyage material.

There are website links to each item on the relevant pages in the catalogue.

First European views of New South Wales from early colonial settlement, including maps, portraits and natural history.

This catalogue describes voyage accounts to Australia, and the history of colonial settlement and exploration. It includes one of the rarest Canadian exile accounts by Ducharme and two examples of an uncommon genre:  Australie. Un voyage à travers le Bush (1868), by Swiss settler & writer, Edouard Marcet, and the Marquis de Beauvoir’s Voyage autour du monde (1872), are both books illustrated by mounted photographs. These form part of the collection of a long-term client and friend of Hordern House, with a few additions; their collection has been assembled over several decades, with books acquired from ourselves as well as from other specialist dealers.

This catalogue describes a selection of 19th-century French voyage books. These form part of the collection of a long-term client and friend of Hordern House, with a few additions; their collection has been assembled over several decades, with books acquired from ourselves as well as from other specialist dealers.

This catalogue describes French voyage books associated with the "grands voyages", the major French enterprises of discovery and exploration of the early nineteenth century, dating from Baudin’s voyage at the start of the century and closing with Dumont d’Urville’s second voyage, completed in 1840. These form part of the collection of a long-term client and friend of Hordern House, with a few additions; their collection has been assembled over several decades, with books acquired from ourselves as well as from other specialist dealers.

The 1821 French edition of Krusenstern’s world voyage puts us in mind of a Pacific Midsummer Night’s Dream with its enchanting lithographs, while the aquatints in the 1802 Relación of the Spanish voyage to the American Northwest coast include a depiction of a breathtaking celebration at Nootka Sound in 1792. These are accompanied in our new catalogue by other major voyage or travel books including Laplace’s formidable account of his world voyage, which is also superbly illustrated with aquatint plates, as is the beautiful copy of Lycett’s Views Australia, or New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land Delineated... . The fine set of Cook’s Voyages in the catalogue belonged to one of his early shipmates.