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

Highlights
[Kelmscott Press]. MORRIS, William: The Story of the Glittering Plain
$16500
London, Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1894 (second Kelmscott edition)/ 1891. One of only 250 copies on paper (a further seven copies were printed on vellum). This is the second edition, and the first to contain the illustrations by Walter Crane.
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Burke and Wills: A matching pair of hand-coloured portrait photographs of the ill-fated explorers
$17500
Original albumen paper photographs (cartes de visite format, image size 88 × 59 mm, mounted on plain card as issued). These images were likely produced in the studio of Melbourne photographer Thomas Adams Hill circa 1861, from photograph taken shortly before the departure of the expedition in August 1860.
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An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
$15000
Artists include Adrian Feint, G.D. Perrottet, Eric Thake, John Goodchild, Sara Eugenia Blake and others.
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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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OXLEY, John: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
$7500
London, John Murray, 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, 'arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals [and] the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup)
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VI Seminario Interamericanos de Rayos Cosmicos. VI InterAmerican Seminar of Cosmic Rays. 19 al 25 de Julio de 1970. La Paz, Bolivia
$400
La Paz, Impreso en Lito Unidas, 1970.A large lithographed full-colour pictorial poster (780 × 528 mm).
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IDRIESS, Ion L.: The Australian Guerrilla. Book 1 to Book 6 [the complete set of all six original first editions]
$6000
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1942 (the first five volumes) and 1943 (last volume). Flush-cut plain paper covers with attached title-wrappers with leading edge flaps; an exceptional set in a custom-made book-box.