A vintage photograph of an Aboriginal stockman
The subject, photographer, location and date are unknown, but we suggest South or Central Australia in the 1920s. More
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.
The subject, photographer, location and date are unknown, but we suggest South or Central Australia in the 1920s. More
London, printed for G. and W. Nichol [and numerous others], 1816 (first thus). [9 items]. More
The party consisted of Missionaries Johann Goessling and Ernst Homann, and two lay-helpers, Hermann Vogelsang and Johann Jacob. They set out from Langmeil [Tanunda] church on Tuesday 9 October 1866 with two large covered wagons and seven horses. This image, along with the full details of the epic journey and..... More
Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1859 (first edition). Henry Kingsley (1830-1876), the younger brother of the novelist Charles Kingsley, migrated to Australia in December 1853. 'Little is securely known of his Australian years. He tried gold-mining on such fields as the Caledonia, Ararat and Omeo without success and there is fairly..... More
Frankfurt, Becker [the printer], 1610 and 1610 [both first editions]. The first editions of much-reprinted works on the rights and duties of women. The first volume addresses virginity, the second adultery, and the contents are drawn in the main from classical and theological writings (with each volume containing an index..... More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (and printed by R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), 1911 [enlarged edition]. Number 31 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1918. Limited to 2000 copies. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1980. A paperback edition of this title was published simultaneously with the much scarcer hardback; this copy is signed by the author on the title page. More
Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, 1936. A volume of poetry by eight members of the Spenser Society of Cambridge University, namely David Arkwright, Winton Dean, Derek Plint Clifford, Christopher Gandy, Cecil Holmes, Frederick Lill, John Manifold and Joseph C. Skinner. Number 17 of 31 numbered copies signed by each of..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Halliday Bros. Ltd for S.C. Ward and Co., 1933. Despite its prosaic title and relative youth, this is an item of great charm, printed in two-toned blocks in fifteen different colours. Suitably framed, it would create a magnificent panorama well over a metre and a half wide..... More
[Paris, 'Levé par Lesueur., J. Milbert direx., Cloquet sculp.', 1824]. A handsomely-presented example of this early French map of Sydney, from the published account of the Baudin expedition of 1800-3. This version comes from the atlas to the second edition of 1824. It contains significantly more detail than the version..... More
Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More
Melbourne, Lothian Book Company, 1923 (second revised edition)/ 1920. 'In May 1918, Monash was appointed corps commander of the Australian forces, and in that year he led some significant attacks by Australian troops in the final stages of the war. Monash's troops were involved in helping to stem the March..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935 [first edition in book form?]. The preface to this volume is dated December 1934. A short article in the Melbourne 'Herald' on Saturday 22 December 1934 states that 'The publication of General Monash's letters serially in these columns attracted such wide-spread attention that their success..... More
Adelaide, Hassell Press [for the Author], 1936. Number 80 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. This copy is also inscribed and signed to Frank Downer, brother of Sir John Downer (1843-1915). Sir John Morphett (1809-1892), landowner and politician: by 1835 he was one of the most..... More
Not identified as such, but from the estate of Sir Alexander Russell Downer, politician and diplomat (1910-1981). The album has the look and feel of a deluxe presentation production, not for general distribution. It would appear to be a pictorial precursor to the NCDC's commercial publication, 'Tomorrow's Canberra - Planning..... More
Adelaide, Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900 and 1901. 'The small religious newspaper "Morning" was founded in 1900 by the gifted but unbalanced lawyer, Paris Nesbit. The newspaper was initially used largely as a vehicle for his personal views on religion and Adelaide society. Nesbit unashamedly..... More
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1974. With the (ownership?) surname signature of John Perceval ('Perceval '74'), one of the artists in the book. His painting, 'The Cornfield', accompanies 'Sheaf-tosser' by Eric Rolls (pages 70-71). More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1986. Long out of print, and of perennial interest and value. More
London, Goodwin, 1694 [first edition]. An ink inscription on the half-title states 'By Dr Robinson, B[isho]p of Bristoll' (in 1710). John Robinson (1650-1723) was also Bishop of London from 1714 to 1723; prior to that, he was 'chaplain (c.1680) to English embassy at Swedish court, where he remained more than..... More
The albumen paper photograph (143 × 101 mm) is mounted on the card of the photographers Hammer & Co., Adelaide and Port Adelaide (at the latter address from 1887). The studio portrait features an older couple, the male with a Salvation Army cap and embroidered pullover, the woman with a...... More
The high-quality sepia-toned photogravure is printed on stiff card (external dimensions 217 × 255 mm, image size 139 × 190 mm). The wide margin beneath the image is inscribed and signed in ink: 'Yours, affectionately Florence E. Booth. The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Gal[atians]..... More
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. The book was published in conjunction with a 2001 retrospective exhibition of the work of R.M. Schindler (1887-1953), recognized 'as a major figure for his contributions to modernism and to the history of architecture in..... More
Brisbane, Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey, 1908. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. This copy is inscribed and signed to 'C.C. Brittlebank, with kind regards from Sydney B.J. Skertchly. Corinda, Qld. 6.3.08'. Sydney Skertchly (1850-1926) arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as..... More
Adelaide, Pioneers Association of South Australia Inc, and Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2020. The 'Coromandel' was 'the first vessel from England to arrive in South Australia after the Governor.... this account examines the lives of the "Coromandel"'s free passage labouring class passengers and their roles in the settlement and development..... More
The sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph (image size 188 × 137 mm) is mounted on light-brown textured card, set within a slightly larger impressed area, with a single lead pencil line ruled around the edges of the print itself (we suggest to mask trifling amounts of excess glue). The mounted photograph..... More
The gelatin silver photographs (image size 160 × 205 mm, or the reverse in three instances) are mounted on thick flush-cut cardboard; there are some chips and trifling imperfections around the edges, and two have slight surface imperfections in background areas; overall, they are in very good condition. The images..... More
[London], Scarlet Imprint, 2009. Number 303 of 1000 copies. More
London, William Heinemann, 1936. Inscribed and signed by the author on an early blank to Ethelwynne Giles. Shirley Cameron Wilson, the author's niece, has written her name at the head of the half-title. Loosely inserted is a flyleaf detached from another (smaller) book; it is signed 'Nell. G. Strawbridge' (Allan's..... More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2020. Offered with the matching companion volume, edited by Paul MONAGHAN and Michael WALSH: 'More Than Mere Words. Essays on Language and Linguistics in Honour of Peter Sutton' (xii, 298 pages with 13 illustrations from photographs, 7 diagrams or charts, 7 maps, and 32 tables). 'Peter..... More
Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892 (first thus). The original work appeared in 1834. The appendix new to this edition contains eight pages on the grammar of the language of Western Australia abridged from an article in the 'Western Australian Almanac' for 1842 and here 'adapted ... to present uses'..... More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974 (first edition). AIAS Australian Aboriginal Studies Series Number 40, Ethnohistory Series Number 2. [2 items]. More
London, Folio Society, [1990s]. The volumes present include three complete series, namely The Barsetshire Chronicles (The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and Last Chronicle of Barset); The Irish Novels (The Macdermots of Ballycloran, The Kellys and the O'Kellys, Castle Richmond, An Eye for..... More
The photographs (cartes de visite and cabinet cards) depict Annie Griffith Roberts, her first husband Dr James Hawkins, her second husband, Dr Edward Bruce Robertson, and Oriana, one of the children of the second marriage. The Robertsons came to Australia in 1887; Oriana married into the Moodie family of 'Wando..... More
Adelaide, [H.M. Martin & Son], 1959. Number 268 of a limited edition (upper limit not stated). This copy is inscribed to 'Jack Mehan. A pity Les could not enjoy his centenary. Henry'. This is Henry Martin, a director of H.M. Martin & Son of Stonyfell: Saltram Vineyard became a wholly-owned..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1879 [first thus]. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy (34-page) introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition, as issued (we purchased several copies recently from the publisher's archive); it does..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1879. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy (34-page) introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Taplin's substantial contribution, The Narrinyeri (156 pages plus 6 preliminaries) is the text of the revised edition of 1878 (see..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
New York, Rizzoli, 1998 (a reduced-format 'Reprint of the portfolio edition of 100 lithographs' first published in Berlin in 1910). 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes..... More
Tokyo, A.D.A. Edita, 1989. One of twelve volumes in this important series; the first eight 'are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style'. This is one of three volumes presenting 'selected preliminary studies that were executed in the course of developing Wright's significant projects, most of which..... More
New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. 'Eight primary channels of influence, from woodblock prints to publications and individual buildings are examined in detail, and the evidence of their impact on Wright's written and built work is illustrated through a combination of textual and graphic analysis' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Midland, Northwood Institute Press, 1987. The 'biography' of a Frank Lloyd Wright building: 'the story of the life cycle of the Archie Teater Studio ... Its birth, life, decline and rebirth are thoroughly chronicled'. Teater was a landscape painter; the studio is in the Hagerman Valley, Idaho. More