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.
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[London], Alfred Boot, Printer, 3, Dockhead, Bermondsey [for George Fife Angas], [1848]. This copy is inscribed and signed at the head of the first page 'London, 1 Jany 1848. G.F. Angas London'. At the foot of the page Angas has written 'G.F. Angas prepared this tract & printed & circulated..... More
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. One of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and the..... More
Mawson makes specific reference to the camel-hair woollen material supplied by Jaeger to the expedition (see the 1915 first edition of 'The Home of the Blizzard', Volume 2, Appendix VII, 'Equipment', page 313). 'With regard to the clothing, the main bulk was of woollen material as supplied by Jaeger of..... More
A large cloth-bound album (300 × 385 mm) containing 478 original vintage gelatin silver photographs in three main sequences. One important series comprises approximately 240 photographs (85 × 135 mm) relating to a journey by air in VH-UZU, the first Cessna imported into Australia (by MacRobertson Miller Aviation Company; it..... More
Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1914. The list of Baedeker's Guide Books printed on the front endpaper lists no editions later than 1914. More
Adelaide, Webb and Son, Printers, 1924. A scarce offprint from 'The Industrial Australian and Mining Standard'. It concludes: 'Official parochialism ... has evolved the present system of head-swollen "scientific" bureaucracy, which, combined with the stringency of almost unworkable laws, is the primary cause of the disastrous collapse of a once..... More
![Item #121920 Too Long in the Bush. [Together with] Blast the Bush; Bush Bashers; Still in the...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121920_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1607476407)
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1965; 1967; 1971; 1975; 1976 and 1983 (all first editions). 'Beating about the Bush' is inscribed and signed by the author. A complete set of Len Beadell's works. A seventh title, 'Outback Highways', describing the activities of the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, was published in 1979, but..... More
London, Cassell and Company, 1916 [second impression, first state, with the error corrected on page 5, but not on page 104]. This copy contains the correct date for Anzac Day in the caption to the plate facing page 4 (it originally stated 'April 15, 1915'), but it still shows the..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935 (one volume), 1936 (one volume), 1937 (three volumes), 1938 (six volumes) and 1942 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the eleventh volume is the first edition of 1936, the others are mixed 1930s editions ranging from the first..... More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2010. One of 800 copies in cloth. More
London, Folio Society, 2004 (third printing)/ 2003. This sumptuous edition contains a preface by Peter Ackroyd and an introduction by John Wain. More
York Beach, The Teitan Press, 2008 (first US edition)/ 1914 ('Sepher Maphteah Shelomo' [sic]) and 1903 ('Clavicula Salomonis'). Number 52 of 358 copies; a 'Weiser Antiquarian Books' bookplate signed by Stephen Skinner is mounted on the front free endpaper. More
Adelaide, Lidums Art Gallery, 1973. Number 592 of 1250 copies, with a numbered adhesive label signed by the artist mounted on the verso of the title page (as issued). This copy also has the signature of the author on the same page, along with the name of the original owner..... More
Adelaide, The Griffin Press ('A prestige publication of The Griffin Press, Adelaide. Distributed by the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne'), 1966. The edition was limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the artist; this is an out-of-series copy, unnumbered and unsigned. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1945. The front free endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'With Compliments (after reading "Searchlights in Australia"). Canberra ACT 15/5/46. A.G. Butler'. Presumably the reference is to 'Talks given in Radio Programmes: Searchlights on Life and Searchlights on Australia, by Various Speakers' (cover title). Trove records this..... More
Melbourne (Volume 1) and Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1938 (second edition)/ 1930, 1940 and 1943. The medical companion to the twelve-volume 'Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918'; all volumes are scarce (and the third volume must be deemed rare). Arthur Graham Butler (1872-1949) 'was appointed regimental medical officer..... More
New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. 'The book's authors, twenty-five scholars from fifteen countries ... detail the origin and development of internationally oriented banks in each major country' (dustwrapper blurb). More
[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of..... More
The first one shows Churchill arriving, standing in the rear of an open vehicle. In the second one, he is seen addressing the huge crowd from the steps of the Town Hall. His informal speech, a warning against complacency, was widely reported at the time. The full text is readily..... More
London, Printed by St Clements Press (1940), Ltd. ('Reprinted from "The Daily Telegraph" and "Morning Post"'), [1942] (first state, without the price printed at the foot of the first page). The speeches are '(1) To the members of Both Houses of the United States Congress at Washington on December 26th..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1962 (the first volume), and Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1963, 1965, 1983, and 1986 (all first editions). The first three volumes are signed by the author. The publisher's note on the dustwrapper of the fifth volume explains how 'Once again, Cobley has drawn together contemporary sources..... More
Adelaide, Australian Red Cross Society, South Australian Division, 1940. Signed by Noel Coward beneath the portrait. A large contemporary newspaper cutting advertising his Adelaide Red Cross functions is tipped in on the inside rear cover. More
The photograph is taken from behind the wicket and includes the wicket-keeper, the fieldsman at slips, Alan Fairfax, the cartwheeling stump and Alan Kippax, the batsman at the non-striker's end. Of far greater consequence, however, is the signature pencilled on the verso of the image: that of Archie Jackson, the..... More
There are thirteen signatures: Woodfull (Captain), Alexander (in his sole Test), Bradman, Bromley (12th man), Darling, Ironmonger, Lee (only his second, and last, Test), McCabe, O'Brien, Oldfield, O'Reilly, Richardson and Wall (who had an injured ankle and was unfit for selection). The match was won by England by 8 wickets..... More
Dallas, Sangreal Foundation, Inc., [1969]. Frater Perdurabo and Soror Virakam are pseudonyms for Aleister Crowley and Mary d'Este-Sturges. More