Search Results: South Australia from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Adelaide: Printed by Gillingham & Co., Ltd. [for G. Gramp & sons, Limited, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, Printed by Gillingham & Co., Ltd. [for G. Gramp & sons, Limited, 1947]. Oblong quarto, [45] pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Gilt-decorated cloth a little sunned about the bottom edge; extremities very slightly bumped; a very good copy of a delightful period-piece (internally near fine). Number 26 of a limited edition. The limitation page reads 'With Compliments from G. Gramp & Sons Limited [Orlando's parent company], Rowland Flat, South Australia, 1847-1947'. While the upper limit is not stated, the highest number we have handled was 1206.

Adelaide: S. Smith & Son Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949. Quarto, [40] pages with numerous illustrations plus a full-page colour plate. Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards a little marked, rubbed and sunned; endpapers and adjacent leaves unevenly tanned; a very good copy with the original transparent acetate dustwrapper slightly torn at the head of the spine.

Sydney: Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, South Australian State Centre, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney, Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, South Australian State Centre, 1963. Quarto, 26 pages with illustrations and pictorial advertisements (plus advertisements on the covers). Saddle-stapled colour-pictorial card covers; staples slightly rusty; an excellent copy.

[Barmera: Irving Print], 1949. [Barmera? Irving Print], 1949. External dimensions 100 x 205 mm (but cut and printed to resemble a digger's slouch hat), [8] pages (comprising title, double-page 'rations' list, double-page toast list with relevant colour patches, a page for autographs, the committee list and details of deaths since the last meeting). Light-brown card printed in dark brown; one 'rations' page slightly marked; trifling abrasion to the front cover; a superb item. A most attractive souvenir menu from the South Australian Riverland. It is interesting to note that these annual reunions did not commence until 15 years after the First World War ended. The outside rear cover has the pencil [ownership] signature of H.L. Bowen [#1866 Sergeant Haddon Lancelot Bowen, 50th Battalion, returned to Australia in February 1919 after more than three years on active service).

Bowden: Minda Inc, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bowden, Minda Inc., 2018. Oblong small folio, 120 pages with numerous illustrations (most in colour). Cloth; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. 'Minda is the largest non-government disability support organisation in South Australia, supporting more than 1750 people with disability and employing close to 1700 people'.

[Adelaide]: E.S. Wigg, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. [Adelaide], E.S. Wigg, [1890]. Oblong quarto, [19] leaves, all rectos blank, comprising the gilt-pictorial title page (by E.C. May), 14 full-page tinted lithographic views with tissue-guards, the 3-page list of 181 subscribers and the key to plate 5 (between plates 4 and 5). Original gilt-decorated half maroon morocco and gilt-lettered brown cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly bumped on the rear corners; cloth lightly flecked; inner hinge a little loose at the title page; minimal light foxing; essentially a fine copy. Ferguson 9924e (but we have seen any number of bindings identical to ours, and none as described by Ferguson). He also states that 'The Mitchell Library copy has a pencil note: 200 printed, in George Robertson's hand-writing'. In spite of this comment, and the 181 subscribers' names, in our experience the book is not as rare as these figures would suggest. The fact that this item is essentially the same as… Read More

Tanunda: The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda, The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. Octavo, 96 pages with 8 plates. Pictorial wrappers slightly marked, rubbed and creased; a very good copy. Text in German. The third of a series of three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea.

Tanunda: The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda, The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. Octavo, three volumes, 32, 16 and 92, [4] pages with several photographic portraits. Pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed; a fine set. Text in German. Three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea.

Tanunda: The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda, The Author (and printed by Auricht), 1936. Octavo, 96 pages with 8 plates. Pictorial wrappers, very slightly marked and creased; a few trifling marginal marks to the text; an excellent copy. Commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea.

[Adelaide: 1982 South Australian Himalayn Expedition, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. [Adelaide, 1982 South Australian Himalayn Expedition, 1983]. Quarto, [40] pages (two blank) with a double-page map and numerous illustrations (from photographs). Pictorial card covers lightly marked; an excellent copy.

Adelaide: Printed by Cruickshank [for The Congress], 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, Printed by Cruickshank [for The Congress], 1963. Small quarto (250 × 200 mm), [4] pages, comprising two sheets of plywood printed recto and verso. The two boards are hinged together with strips of green cloth tape inside and out (as issued); leading edge of the front cover a little marked; an excellent copy. The front cover has the title as above printed in green, surmounted by the congress logo in brown and green; the centrespread features the menu and wines, both printed in brown; the rear cover, headed 'Autographs', has an image of the Hotel Australia (on O'Connell Street, North Adelaide) printed in green on the bottom half. The hotel building still stands, refurbished into an apartment block.

Adelaide: RSSA, 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. Octavo, pages 152-167. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands.

Adelaide: Department of Education, Training and Employment, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, Department of Education, Training and Employment, 1998. 240 x 360 mm, 116 pages with numerous colour illustrations (mainly after photographs by Mark Trinne). Cloth with the front panel of the standard edition (spiral-bound card covers) mounted on the front cover; a fine copy (and possibly one of only a small number bound thus for presentation). Pring and Trinne interviewed and photographed 'more than one hundred Aboriginal artists and their work in cities, towns and remote areas of South Australia. The book ... presents works by well-known artists as well as those who are just beginning their careers'.

Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Quarto, three volumes; flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers (the first volume) and full card (the other two volumes); crease to the bottom corner of the front cover (and a lighter one to the first 30 leaves) of the first volume, otherwise in fine condition throughout. The articles appear under the general title of 'Aboriginal Crayon Drawings', with the following individual sub-titles. Number 1: Relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of Central Australia (12 pages with a map and 18 illustrations). Number 2: Relating to South-Western Central Australia (15 pages with a map and 19 illustrations). Number 3: The Legend of Wati Jula and the Kunkarunkara Women (14 pages with 12 illustrations plus 4 plates). Number 4: Relating to Every-day Incidents of the Ngada Tribe of the Warburton Ranges of Western Australia (11 pages with 11… Read More

Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1895. Octavo, 15 pages with 4 illustrations. Saddle-stapled title-wrappers; a fine copy. A rare pamphlet on Aboriginal water-finding techniques, derived mainly from first-hand accounts of early explorers.

Adelaide: RSSA, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, RSSA, 1943. Quarto, [68] pages with a full-page map after Tindale (in a total of [ii], 175-330 pages with numerous illustrations plus plates). Original printed wrappers; a fine copy. An exhaustive survey based in part on material collected on expeditions 'to Pandi on the lower Diamantina, adjacent to the Queensland border, in 1934, and the northern Flinders Ranges in 1937', combined with 'much published information ... widely scattered in literature. The present paper is an attempt to bring it together under a zoological classification'. It is effectively an annotated thematic bibliography of the area (the north-eastern corner of South Australia and environs). This issue also contains COOPER, H.M.: An Exceptional Australian Axe-head (2 pages with 3 illustrations plus a full-page plate). Other contributors include Sir Douglas Mawson, H.H. Finlayson, Constance Eardley, and Bernard Cotton. (A 25-page companion article by T.H. JOHNSTON and… Read More

Adelaide: Rigby for the South Australian Museum, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide, Rigby for the South Australian Museum, 1972. Quarto, 80 pages with numerous illustrations and a double-page map plus 4 full-page colour plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The title page is signed by the author; the colour plates and 13 of the illustrations are from his field photographs.

Adelaide: RSSA, 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, RSSA, 1926. Quarto, [11] pages with a map and 3 pages of illustrations. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MAWSON, Sir D. and P. HOSSFELD: Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District (8 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus 4 plates); CAMPBELL, Dr T.D. and Dr A.J. LEWIS: The Aborigines of South Australia - Anthropometric, Descriptive and other Observations recorded at Ooldea (9 pages plus 3 pages of plates containing 12 portraits); TINDALE, N.B. and C.P. MOUNTFORD: Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie, South Australia (4 pages with a map and an illustration plus 5 plates) and two short articles by Dr R. Pulleine.

Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1981. Octavo, 208 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; slight mark on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. A biography of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow.

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia/ University of Adelaide, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia/ University of Adelaide, 1966 and 1966. Quarto, [54] pages with 2 maps [and] [102] pages. Wrappers; Volume 1 a fine copy; Volume 2 slightly sunned, rubbed and with two tiny closed tears to the head of the spine; overall an excellent pair.