Highlights of our latest catalogue include eight lithographs from the very rare ‘Wasmuth’ portfolios of studies and executed buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright (Berlin, 1910); The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley (three volumes, 1859, first edition); nearly 300 nineteenth-century portrait photographs of the Western District pioneering Hawkins and Robertson families; Lesueur’s ‘Plan de la Ville de Sydney … 1802’; a signed copy of Skertchly’s The Story of the Noble Opal (1908); Butler’s Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918 (three volumes, 1938-1943), and a signed copy of his The Digger. A Study in Democracy (1945).

These are padded out with singular signed items, rare photographs, unusual printed ephemera, and interesting and important books (including some new releases). If nothing else, you’ll probably enjoy reading about them …

Season’s greetings, and best wishes for the new year from all of us here at Treloar’s.

Highlights of our latest catalogue include rare occult titles, many by or about Aleister Crowley. Militaria is also heavily represented, with many unique items. Not least is the deluxe menu and autograph album from the dinner given by the entrepreneur and politician Hugh McIntosh for VC winners on Armistice Day 1919: our copy is signed by sixteen of them.

Rare photographs include two albums with 110 hand-coloured images of 1880s Japan by Adolfo Farsari; a stereo-daguerreotype by Disderi of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855; two Australian items depicting racial stereotyping, and a fine early portrait of an Adelaide Indigenous woman and child by Saul Solomon.

Our range of Folio Society publications offers an affordable indulgence with a handsome set of a favourite author: Churchill, Collins, Doyle, Eliot, Gibbon, Greene, Hardy, Nesbit, Orwell, Peake, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Trollope, Waugh or Wilde.

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Highlights of our latest list include three striking prints by George Baxter relating to missionaries in the Pacific; Sturt's Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), with the provenance of fellow-explorer George Woodroofe Goyder; significant books and photographs by Charles Pearcy Mountford; an impressive group of Wunderlich trade catalogues; and an interesting selection of military and shipping history, vintage photographs, and ephemeral printings.

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Highlights of our latest catalogue include an issue of Peninsula Press, the broadsheet issued in the field during the Gallipoli campaign; the 1971 deluxe edition of The Wind in the Willows, the first to contain the illustrations in colour, limited to only 250 copies signed by Ernest Shepard; an early twentieth-century designer binding by Margaret Chapman, one of the first professional craft bookbinders in Australia; a substantial collection of Jindyworobak publications; and Nova Architectura Militaris (1683), a very rare well-illustrated work on military architecture and fortifications.

And to celebrate the Captain Cook sestercentennial, we have two genuine rarities, one at $250, the other at $50,000.

First in, best dressed!