Catalogues

Picture Book XI

Picture Book XI

Picture Book XI plays to our strengths, as ever – literature, art, manuscripts, photographs, militaria, exploration, maps – and there are many highlights.

Our set of The South Polar Times (1907-14, three volumes, two with dustwrappers) has the provenance of Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton (1837-1926), a significant benefactor of Ernest Shackleton and his expeditions. We also have the deluxe large-paper issue of Shackleton’s The Heart of the Antarctic (1909, three volumes), one of only 300 sets with the supplementary volume The Antarctic Book, signed by 16 members of the expedition.

Mawson’s The Home of the Blizzard (Philadelphia, 1915, two volumes, first edition, first state, with dustwrappers) is upstaged by our signed set of the London first edition, second state, purchased while the catalogue was being printed.

Maps include two adjoining gores from Coronelli's influential three-and-a-half-foot globe of the world, showing most of the continent of Australia, titled ‘Het Niew Hollandt | Nuova Hollanda’ (circa 1701). Stanford’s A Map of Australia (1879) is a fine, rare and impressive mammoth-format hand-coloured map on four sheets (approximately 1950 × 2620 mm when assembled) – even rarer and more impressive than Stanford's earlier Library Map of Australasia (1859).

Of the utmost significance is General Sir Harry Chauvel’s personal campaign map for the Battle of Beersheba (31 October 1917), with his annotations (‘better gallop into action’). He also features in the collection of photographs and ephemera relating to the war service of his younger brother Major James Chauvel. Another exceptional group of items is a presentation copy of Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash’s The Australian Victories in France in 1918 (1920), with a signed portrait photograph and a letter written not long before his death in 1931.

Catalogue 80

Catalogue 80

Our latest catalogue is larger than usual (well, it is the end of the financial year, after all!), so we won’t keep you waiting too long: Carron’s account of Kennedy's disastrous 1848 expedition to explore Cape York (1849); Hume’s A Brief Statement of Facts in Connexion with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip, in 1824 (1855); and Goyder’s impressive Plan of the Southern Portion of the Province of South Australia [1878] are rare and valuable. Equally rare but not nearly as costly are the dozen or more trade catalogues holding their own at the tail end – but there’s a lot of ground to cover before then.

Not least, this catalogue is accompanied by two supplementary lists, one on rare sporting ephemera (mainly Australian Rules football), the other on occult beliefs and practices. We are nothing if not eclectic …

Catalogue 79

Catalogue 79

Our latest catalogue contains a miscellany of books, photographs, autographs and manuscripts, and bookplates.

Botany is well represented, with the complete six-volume set of The Endemic Flora of Tasmania (1967-78), superbly illustrated by Margaret Stones; the Report on the Forest Resources of the Colony [of Western Australia] by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller (1879); and several books on Indigenous plant use.

Photography includes a signed copy of the first edition of David Goldblatt’s Some Afrikaners Photographed (1975), and Picasso, 1930-1935 (1936), an early monograph on Picasso, with a portrait illustration of Picasso signed on the mount by the photographer Man Ray. There are seven lots of stereographs, not least a group of 17 Australasian Stereo Views (circa 1892) by the little-known South Australian photographer Edwin C. Thomas. Other original photographs include aerial views of First World War trench warfare, early cartes de visite of Paris, an exhibition print by Charles Mountford of great Indigenous interest, and a signed portrait of Spencer Tracy.

We could go on, but why not just sit back, make yourself comfortable, and take it all in at your own pace!

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.