Search Results: Titles starting with C from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Adelaide: [The Author], 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, [The Author], 1945. Octavo, [viii], 72 pages plus 20 plates (including 4 folding panoramas). Cloth; a fine copy with the Steele armorial bookplate ('Prudentia et Animis'). Number 29 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. Charles Brown Fisher (1818-1908) was the second son of James Hurtle Fisher; he arrived with his father, the first Resident Commissioner of South Australia, on the 'Buffalo' in December 1836. He became one of the biggest pastoralists in Australia, and the book tells of the development of country from the Mt Schanck run in the south to Victoria River Downs and Port Darwin, as well as properties along the Murray and Darling, and in western and northern Queensland. 'Overcapitalization, falling prices and six bad seasons forced Fisher into bankruptcy in 1895. His liabilities were nearly £1,500,000 against assets of £786,000. Destitute, he retired to Melbourne where in November 1896 friends took up a… Read More

Adelaide: [The Author], 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide, [The Author], 1945. Octavo, [viii], 72 pages plus 20 plates (including 4 folding panoramas). Cloth a trifle flecked; top edge slightly foxed; an excellent copy in the very good dustwrapper with mild signs of use and age. Number 91 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author; this copy bears the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of one P.E. Johnstone, of the majestic Adelaide Steamship Company building on Currie Street (built in 1903, demolished in 1986). "The story deals with the development of country from the 'Mt Schanck' run in the south to 'Victoria River Downs' and Port Darwin" as well as properties along the Murray and Darling, and in western and northern Queensland. Consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for more details.

Sydney: P.R. Stephensen, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, P.R. Stephensen, 1934. Octavo, 165 pages plus a frontispiece portrait by Lionel Lindsay. Cloth; a fine copy with the pictorial dustwrapper slightly rubbed and chipped, with minimal loss to the foot of the rear hinge. Inscribed on the flyleaf 'To Jack / from Randolph / in friendship / a book of which he will not / approve'. Priced accordingly.

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1979. Folio, xvi, 284, [4] pages with numerous illustrations plus a frontispiece portrait and 2 tipped-in colour plates. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. One of only 96 copies bound thus. With two loosely inserted errata slips.

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1979. Folio, xvi, 284, (4) pages with numerous illustrations plus a frontispiece portrait and 2 tipped-in colour plates. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. One of only 100 hardcover copies. With two errata slips loosely inserted.

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Octavo, xvi, 940 pages. Papered boards; occasional inoffensive pencilling; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed dustrapper.

East Melbourne: CSIRO Publications, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. East Melbourne, CSIRO Publications, 1993. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; ownership signature and commercial bookplate; an excellent copy.

Paddington: The Australian Centre for Photography on behalf of CSR Limited, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paddington, The Australian Centre for Photography on behalf of CSR Limited, 1978. Oblong quarto, 85 pages with dozens of illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers a little creased, sunned and rubbed with a tiny closed tear to the rear cover; a very good copy.

Paddington: The Australian Centre for Photography on behalf of CSR Limited, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paddington, The Australian Centre for Photography on behalf of CSR Limited, 1978. Oblong quarto, 85 pages with dozens of illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and sunned; an excellent copy.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide, Rigby, 1977. Small quarto, 64 pages with numerous illustrations. Papered boards slightly rubbed; edges foxed; a very good copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly foxed on the verso).

London: William Darton, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, William Darton, [circa 1825]. Octavo, xii, 64 pages plus 64 engraved portraits with tissue-guards. Early gilt-decorated half calf and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; corners and the rear leading edge a little worn; 'Vol III' label missing from the spine; occasional scattered foxing and offsetting; a very good copy. Provenance: James Hurtle Fisher, with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown and his signature in ink at the head of the engraved title page. Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875) 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). He commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835.... [He] was selected as resident commissioner, one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act ... second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. New York, Dover Publications, 1969 (first thus). Quarto, xvi, 24 pages plus 123 plates (comprising hundreds of illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; ink ownership signature; an excellent copy. With an new introduction by Joseph Aronson.

New York: Abrams, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, Abrams, 2011 (first English language edition). Quarto, 232 pages with hundreds of colour illustrations from photographs by Christine Fleurent. Colour pictorial papered boards; extremities a trifle rubbed; essentially a fine copy. Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott.

Los Olivos: Cachuma Press, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Los Olivos, Cachuma Press, 2008. Octavo; colour pictorial card covers with flaps; an excellent copy. With numerous colour illustrations.

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wellington, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1966. Quarto, with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Synthetic cloth; leaves slightly tanned at the edges; contemporary ink ownership signature; a excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, with a short closed tear.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1986. Quarto; pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.

Sydney: The Authors, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, The Authors, 1972. Octavo; cloth; two corners very slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and torn with trifling loss. One of 500 copies signed by the authors. Also inscribed and signed by Johnson to Australian historian [Professor] Alex Castles.

Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1936. Hardcover. Fine. Newtown, The Gregynog Press, 1936 (first thus)/ 1633. Octavo, xiv, 150, [1] (colophon) pages, printed in red and black on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper. Original half green Oasis morocco and striped papered boards, lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and blind; endpapers and adjacent leaves a little browned from the leather turn-ins; a few tiny spots; a fine copy. Number 109 of 225 copies, printed 'under the direction of James Wardrop, at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire; finished the twenty-second day of October, 1936' (colophon). '[Greville's] "Caelica" (published 1633) begins as a conventional sonnet sequence but gradually abandons Neoplatonism for pessimistic reflections on religion and politics' ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). This edition is edited by Una Ellis-Fermor. 'The Gregynog Press, Montgomeryshire, was one of many artistic activities due to the enlightened philanthropy of two sisters, Miss Gwendoline Davies, C.H., and… Read More

Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Springfield, Charles C Thomas, 1965. Octavo; cloth; extremities slightly bumped; spine lightly sunned; an excellent copy. Ex-libris the author.

[No Place]: Amen Press, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. [No Place], Amen Press, 2008. Octavo, [28] pages (including the colour-pictorial title-wrappers) with numerous colour illustrations plus 9 (of 10) loosely inserted colour plates. Wrappers; a fine copy, inserted with the loose colour plates in a small pocket in a portfolio (gilt-lettered papered boards), as issued. Number 38 of 93 copies (these details are printed on a small piece of paper loosely inserted in the booklet). The suite of plates includes two each of the recto and verso of the Cairo Stela 666, with a paraphrase of the relevant hieroglyphs printed on the verso on one of each of the duplicate plates. The missing plate is the one of the recto of the stele with the paraphrased hieroglyphs printed on it (see pages [15]-[19] in the booklet).