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Rock | Blues | Pop - Memorabilia Auction

Rock | Blues | Pop - Memorabilia Auction

Our forthcoming auction is something of a departure from our usual offerings.

The items in this single-vendor sale come from the private collection of David Lovatt, proprietor of Bank Street Records in Adelaide from 1985 to 1994. He bought and sold rock/pop memorabilia as part of the business.

This includes autographs, posters, records and memorabilia, relating to The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, and others ...

He played bass in the Adelaide tribute band Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix), which supported international blues greats John Hammond, Earl King and others.

David personally obtained all autographs in the auction unless stated otherwise.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This is an online-only timed auction hosted by Invaluable.com. There will be no in-room bidding for this sale.

Lots will begin to close starting at 12 pm (ACDT) on Monday 25 March 2024.

Buyer's premium: 20%

Online bidding fee: 5%

Click on each lot to see a full description and additional images.

All items are available for viewing at our North Terrace premises. However, for the majority of you who are not Adelaideans and for whom personal inspection is not an option, all items are accurately described and photographed, and are covered by our conditional guarantee.

Please ensure you have read the Auction Details available on the auction page.

If you have any questions, please contact us on (+61) 08 8223 1111 or at treloars@treloars.com

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Catalogue 78

Catalogue 78

Our latest catalogue contains an impressive selection of manuscripts and autographs, including documents signed by King George IV, King William IV, and Governor George Gawler; letters from W. Baldwin Spencer, T.E. Lawrence, Barry Humphries, and Colin Thiele; signed photographs of Errol Flynn and Anthony Eden; and a presentation copy of Poems 1926-1930 by Robert Graves, with numerous corrections and alterations to the text.

There are many books on Indigenous Australia, not least relating to languages (Teichelmann and Schurmann 1840; Curr 1886-87; Milligan 1890; Schmidt 1952), and art and culture (including Basedow, Fison and Howitt, Hammond, Tindale, Walsh, and Worsnop).

Accounts of voyages, exploration and travel include Magra 1771, Warburton 1875, Lindsay 1888, Tietkens 1890, Birtles 1909, Scott 1913, and Terry 1930. Books of botanical interest include the Basilisk Press edition of The Red Books of Humphry Repton (1976), Maiden’s The Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales (1895-98), Flora of the Kimberley Region (1992), and Orchids of Western Australia (2008).

Catalogue 77

Catalogue 77

Our first catalogue for the new year contains some superb items, including rare classics, both old and modern. These days it is probably no less difficult to find a set of Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (three volumes, 1845-47), or an original edition of South Australia Illustrated (1847) by George French Angas, than it is to procure the complete set of David De Havelland’s Gold & Ghosts (four volumes, 1985 to 1989), or a copy of T.G.H. Strehlow’s Songs of Central Australia (1971).

We also have a stunning copy of Strehlow’s Aranda Traditions (1947); all three of Grahame Walsh’s significant works on rock art (1988, 1994, and 2000); a signed copy of The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1994); Charles Mountford’s Nomads of the Australian Desert (1976); the complete set of Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (four volumes, 1956 to 1964) edited by Mountford; and an extraordinary group of eight original Mountford photographs of Indigenous Australians in the Musgrave and Mann Ranges.

Autograph material includes three letters and three postcards signed by Evelyn Waugh (1952 to 1963); a letter by Max Bruch (1872); five original land grants for country sections purchased in 1840 by the SA pioneer, George Frederick Dashwood …

Over to you!

Catalogue 76

Catalogue 76

Our last catalogue for the year contains two eye-catching items – literally – being Midolle’s 1836 bravura effort of early colour lithography (with over 100 plates printed in two or more colours), and a mammoth signed colour photograph of Don Bradman, being a full-size version of Ivor Hele’s 1949 oil portrait (which stands a metre tall). Other signed items include books by Sir Anthony Eden, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Paul McGuire (17 of his 1930s crime novels), Charles Mountford, and Grahame Walsh (his masterwork, Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley, 2000).

There are large sections on Egyptology (60 items), the Northern Territory (from 1864 to 1915), and trade catalogues (mainly 1920s-30s, ranging from toys and type specimens, to pocket knives and Australian wine) … That still leaves more than one hundred equally worthy items, but you get the drift.

Many thanks for your interest this year. Season’s greetings and best wishes from all of us here in Adelaide!

 

Catalogue 75

Catalogue 75

Our larger-than-usual catalogue contains an entertaining (and occasionally edifying) miscellany, including 25 classic Australian comic annuals (Ginger Meggs, Wally and the Major, Bluey and Curley); an original 1883-84 Melbourne Cricket Club Honorary Member's Ticket; Crombie’s Laws of Cricket (circa 1907); George Goyder’s set of Sturt’s Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), and Stephen King Jnr’s copy of Searcy’s In Australian Tropics (1907); and numerous monographs on photographers, not least, signed copies of books by Max Dupain and Ansel Adams.

The sections on Egyptology, New Guinea, Indigenous Australia, and botany and gardening all contain much of interest, and there are many unusual and rare items scattered throughout the list.

Catalogue 74

Catalogue 74

Our latest catalogue contains important albums of photographs and books on photography from the collection of the photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM. Highlights are presentation albums of photographs of Warwick in Queensland (1897), and of New South Wales (1892, presented to The Lady Evelyn Gathorne Hardy by George Dibbs, the Premier). Books include copies signed by Anselm Adams, Max Dupain, Sam Haskins, Bill Henson, Tim Page, and Wolfgang Sievers.

An unrecorded item of great significance is a very large detailed map of the battleground of the failed attempt by Turkish troops to invade Egypt on 3 February 1915. The 3rd Field Company Engineers AIF were directly involved, and the Australian War Memorial has in its collection one of the pontoons used by the 4th Turkish Army in their attempt to cross the Suez Canal.

There are numerous books on tribal art and ethnic jewellery; first editions of The Dandies’ Ball (with illustrations after Robert Cruikshank, 1819), J.D. Hooker’s Himalayan Journals (two volumes, 1854), Georgette Heyer’s Barren Corn (1930, with the dustwrapper), and Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems (1928, with the dustwrapper); items signed by George Fife Angas, Allen Ginsberg, Hans Heysen, Oskar Kokoschka … Too much already!

Catalogue 73 - Prints, maps, photographs, drawings and posters

Catalogue 73 - Prints, maps, photographs, drawings and posters

Our current catalogue is a departure from our usual range of material. All 110 items are either maps, photographs, posters, drawings or prints. Some of the items are significant (for example, maps by Bowen and Freycinet, and Antarctic photographs by Hurley), but at the very least, many of them are visually appealing (such as the plates from the works of George French Angas and John Gould). So, on the basis of what you see in the image is what you get if you make a purchase, have a look – it won’t take you long, and who knows, you may be tempted!

Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2023

Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2023

The centrepiece of the material we have for sale at the forthcoming Melbourne Rare Book Fair is a selection of unique items relating to Australian inland exploration. One exceptional item is an unrecorded manuscript journal of the first seven weeks of John McDouall Stuart’s second exploring expedition, with a lengthy addendum in the hand of the explorer himself. An extensive archive relating to the pastoral properties of Alfred Barker (1812-1880) in the north of South Australia includes a series of letters giving details of the controversial purchase of Stuart’s pastoral runs on the eve of his departure from Australia. Rare portraits include vintage photographs of Stuart, Burke, Wills, and Allan Davidson, and a lithograph of Edward John Eyre.

Children’s literature is well-represented by a superb collection of books by A.A. Milne and his illustrator Ernest H. Shepard, including deluxe and limited editions, some of them signed. Once again, we have a fine selection of private press material, including titles from the Doves, Eragny, Golden Cockerel, Vale and Cuala presses. One highlight is the complete run of twelve issues of A Broadside, New Series, 1937, a hand-coloured collection of ‘New Irish and English Songs’ edited by William Butler Yeats.

Artwork and photography include a suite of five colonial watercolours by S.T. Gill, and two large-format vintage photographs by Frank Hurley from Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, with provenance from a member of his later BANZARE.