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.

Highlights

LINDSAY, Norman: The Scribblings of an Idle Mind (signed, with two autograph letters)
Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1966. Number 5 of only 350 copies signed by Norman Lindsay; it is further personally inscribed and signed by him on the flyleaf. Loosely inserted are two autograph letters signed by Lindsay. The first gives details of the history of the publication of the book; the second discusses art, including Aboriginal art.
[Burke and Wills]. KIRBY, Captain J. Narrative of a Voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
$11000
Melbourne, Printed at the Herald Office, 1862. 'The "Firefly", chartered by the Government of Victoria to convey stores, &c., for the exploration party sent in search of the ill-fated explorers, Burke and Wills, left Melbourne on July 29th, 1861 ... The "Firefly" encountered heavy weather and was eventually totally wrecked on Sir Charles Hardy's Island. This narrative is the captain's justification of his conduct' (Ferguson 11202).
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