Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

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Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, established in Adelaide, South Australia, in March 1976, is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).

Our retail outlet is in the heart of Adelaide, opposite the State Library of South Australia. We deal in quality out-of-print and antiquarian books, as well as vintage photographs, manuscripts and autographs.

Contact Information
Phone: +61 8 8223 1111
Website: http://www.treloars.com
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196 North Terrace Adelaide, 5000 Australia Get Directions

Store Hours

Weekdays 10am - 5:30pm
Saturdays by appointment

Highlights
WODEHOUSE, P.G.: Tales of St Austin's
$8000
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (first edition, first issue). Octavo, [xii], 282, [2] (advertisements) pages plus 12 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock, and E.F. Skinner (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard). An exceptional copy of Wodehouse's third book, a collection of 16 public school tales, here in its first-issue binding: an uncommonly bright example of a book notoriously susceptible to fading.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.: Psmith in the City. A Sequel to 'Mike'
$3000
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910 (first edition). Octavo, xii, 266, [2] (advertisements) pages plus 12 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell. A very bright copy of this transitional and partly autobiographical novel, in which the heroes of the Public School tale 'Mike' find themselves caught up in the drudgery of the Edwardian banking system (although they do find time for cricket). Wodehouse was unhappily employed at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank before finding success as a writer.
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ANGAS, George French: A unique offering of eighteen original watercolours of Rio de Janeiro and the peoples of Southern Africa, many unpublished, together with a significant autograph letter signed by the artist
$650000
Watercolour and body colour on paper, most approximately 230 × 320 mm (or the reverse). All of these superb images are titled or captioned by the artist, and many are signed. Eight views show Rio de Janeiro and environs, and were produced in 1845 in preparation for a never-published plate book. The remaining ten views showing Zulu, Xhosa, Khoekhoe and Cape Malay peoples of Southern Africa, and were painted in 1846 and 1847.
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BARWICK, Sir Garfield: A word-processed letter signed by Sir Garfield Barwick, declining a request to sign a copy of David Marr's biography, 'Barwick'
$1000
The letter is dated 26 February 1991, and reads in part: 'I have to acknowledge receipt last week of your undated letter requesting me to autograph a number of items. I am bound to tell you that over what is now a long period of years, I have consistently refused favourably to respond to the very many requests I have received from collectors of autographs and memorabilia ... In any case, I do not approve of Mr Marr's book which is replete with errors of fact and tendentious assertions'
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WASHBOURNE, Thomas: A collection of 24 carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Indigenous Australians, circa 1860s, most from the Yarra Valley and North-East Victoria
$45000
The Aboriginal portraits of Thomas Jeston Washbourne (1832-1905) are rare on the open market and in institutional holdings. The images comprise a series of ten tableaux taken in or near Wangaratta around 1866, and fourteen further portraits, most likely taken at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station (and almost certainly also by Washbourne)
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KINGSFORD-SMITH, Charles: A fully signed vintage photo-montage of the crew of the 'Southern Cross' shortly after their historic first trans-Pacific flight
$4000
The photograph is signed in ink by all four aviators; the blindstamp of the photographers (Broughton, Ward & Chaseling) is in the bottom right-hand corner. Charles Kingsford Smith, fellow Australian pilot Charles Ulm, and two Americans, navigator Harry Lyon and radio operator James Warner, left Oakland in California on 31 May 1928. The pioneering flight ended on 9 June in Brisbane, after a journey of 11,585 kilometres completed in three stages.
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MAXWELL, James Clerk: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1881). J.J. Thomson's working copy
$250000
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1881 (second edition, revised)/ 1873. The personal working set of Sir Joseph John Thomson (Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron), with extensive annotations in his hand made while editing the third edition of Maxwell's important treatise. Later provenance from his son, Sir George Paget Thomson, also a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
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MORA, Mirka: Mirka's Colouring Book No. One
$2000
[Melbourne, Courtin/Fevola Publishing, 1970]. A charming and ephemeral production, rare on the open market. The National Library of Australia notes an edition of only 50 copies. This example is not coloured in.
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VISHNIAC, Roman: Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott, 1938
$2000
A selenium-toned gelatin silver photograph (270 × 267 mm). Plate 4 from number 14 of 50 copies of 'The Vanished World' portfolio (New York, Witkin-Berley, 1977/ 1938). The peddlers in question were the victim of antisemitic boycotts organised by the Polish nationalist movement in the interwar period.
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