We are pleased to announce our Picture Book 5 - An Illustrated Catalogue of Highlights from Stock.
Among the delights you will find a fine dustwrappered copy of The Magic Pudding (1918); 19th century photographs of Western District pastoral pioneers; an exquisite William Kilburn daguerreotype; coloured Japanese woodblock prints; works on Antarctic and Australian exploration; and rare cricket items including 19th century signed Australian Test cricketers' portraits.
The catalogue's release heralds the Melbourne Rare Book Fair (the 43rd ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair), being held at Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, 24-26 July. For more details go to www.rarebookfair.com
We hope you enjoy browsing through it as much as we did putting it together. To order or enquire about items, please email us at treloars@treloars.com
Tokyo, Kokka Publishing Company, 1908. The plates are reproductions of masterpieces of Japanese and Chinese art (78 and 30 plates respectively). Other copies on the market at present invariably call for only 100 plates (65 Japanese and 35 Chinese), and some of them have a variant title page (printed without..... More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina and Co., 1870. This copy is extra-illustrated with an accomplished and engaging original watercolour (98 x 178 mm) showing two stockmen on horseback in pursuit of a dingo. It has been mounted on the verso of the half-title and presented within a black ink border as a...... More
Babbage was 'engineer, scientist and explorer ... son of Charles Babbage, Cambridge professor of mathematics [and the first computer pioneer], and his wife Georgina, sister of W.W. Whitmore, a founder of South Australia.... In 1856 Babbage was sent north to search for gold as far as the Flinders Ranges. He..... More
Sydney, The Author, 1937. Number 20 of only 110 copies produced, all signed by the author (and hand-set and printed by Harrie Mortlock at the Beacon Press). Percy Neville Barnett (1881-1953), author, publisher and book-plate authority; in the 1930s he 'became interested in Japanese wood-block colour-prints; he imported 40,000 prints..... More
It is a stylised head-and-shoulders portrait in fine condition, inscribed and signed across the base of the image 'Yours truly W.P. Howell'; it dates from his first tour of England in 1899. Howell, a useful all-rounder, toured England three times, taking all 10 for 28 against Surrey in his first..... More
It is a stylised head-and-shoulders portrait in fine condition, inscribed and signed across the base of the image 'Yours faithfully Alfred E Johns'; it dates from his second tour of England in 1899. Johns twice toured England as deputy wicket-keeper without playing a Test, and in 1922 was appointed a...... More
London, J. Bolland, Elthorne Studio, Hanwell, [1905]. The portrait, featuring Kelly in a suit, seated in the studio, is inscribed and signed across the base of the image 'Yours truly J.J. Kelly'. It dates from his fourth and final tour of England in 1905. Kelly was a 'wicket-keeper of pronounced..... More
Glebe, Simmons Limited (Printers), [1933]. Padwick 6881. More
Sydney, NSW Bookstall Company, 1928. Padwick 4457 and 7028. More
The image, from the early 1850s, is in the original leather case gilt-embossed 'Mr Kilburn, 234 Regent Street'. The celebrated William Kilburn trained his brother Douglas, who established Victoria's first professional photographic studio in 1847. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [1918 (first edition)]. Muir 2744 (satisfying all the requirements for the true first edition, one of 5000 copies printed; '23,000 copies had been sold by early 1922'). More
Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden (where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained). The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals..... More
The photograph is positioned so that the finished product presents as a diamond shape; it is both unusual and effective. Both the mat and photograph are in fine condition. The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat..... More
The Act came into operation on 1 July 1842. It called for Ministers of Religion to be registered, or any marriages they performed would be deemed invalid. Automatically eligible under the Act were 'clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland and of the Church of Scotland'. Section XXXII..... More
The Northern Territory Archive Service has an album containing the same twenty-five images, captioned but apparently unsigned. The catalogue record for that album (NTRS 3050) states that 'Hugo Keil was a photographer who worked at the Appropriation Ledger Section of the Allied Works Council in Alice Springs during the Second..... More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1966 (first UK edition). Simply a stunning copy of the author's first novel. More
The artist is unidentified, but he was possibly attached to No. 9 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF (9 RSU). The Australian War Memorial website states that in 1945 three artists already serving with the RAAF were seconded to the RAAF War History Section as artists - Harold Freedman (1915-1999), Max..... More
The letter reads in full: 'Dear Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for the two works on the languages of the Aborigines of Australia which I owe to your kindness. They are very valuable to me, and full of interest, and I hope that the impulse once given to..... More
Lengthy captions in pencil on the verso of each photograph are most illuminating, not least because they were inscribed by an Australian soldier in Jerusalem shortly after the fall. He is possibly a member of the 4th Light Horse Brigade, and accordingly a veteran of the famous charge at Beersheba..... More
There are approximately 120 from the 1890s and 1900s (100 large, 20 medium to small); 13 from the 1910s; and 12 from the 1920s to the 1940s; a few are creased where flattened when rolled, some corners are dog-eared, and they have come from an office in a foundry, and..... More
![Item #101432 The Case of the Honorable George Milner Stephen [drop-title]. Port Gawler, George...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/101432.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608534814)
[Adelaide], Robert Thomas and Co., Printers, Hindley-street (colophon at the foot of the last page), [circa 1840]. An apparently unrecorded compilation of accounts of the 1839 libel action, counter-action for wilful and corrupt perjury, and the counter-counter-action for libel involving George Milner Stephen, Colonial Secretary and Advocate General of South..... More
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Loosely inserted is an albumen paper photograph (170 × 110 mm) mounted on card (300 × 230 mm, with the rubber-stamp credit of the photographers T. and R. Annan of Glasgow) of the memorial tablet in Glasgow Cathedral to Major Alexander Dunlop..... More
The 72 gelatin silver photographs (255 × 205 mm or the reverse) are loosely inserted on both sides of album leaves (in diagonal slits in the corners designed for the purpose). Studio stamps and manuscript captions on the versos suggest that there is a connection with the contents of the..... More
