We are pleased to offer the Whitmont Collection Part I, a treasure trove of significant original material, from a private Sydney library, tracing the early European history of Australia and the wider Pacific region.
To view an introduction to the Collection read our blog here and read a recent review of this catalogue here
To view Part II, just published, click here

Including early printing, Pacific voyages and illustrated natural history. The cover item is from the one of the finest Pacific illustrated books of the nineteenth century Sketches in New Zealand with superb handcoloured lithographs by the naval commander Richard Aldworth Oliver, (1811-1889), who commanded HMS Fly on survey voyages of New Zealand and Pacific waters between 1847 and 1851.

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. Part II of the collection, Voyages to the East is now available. 

Part I: The Discovery of America...

Voyage and travel books, manuscripts and works on paper relating to early and colonial Australia, including fine illustrated natural history.

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.