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Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, established March 1976, specialist dealers in quality out-of-print and antiquarian books, as well as vintage photographs, manuscripts and autographs

A few highlights from the maps section of our current auction on Invaluable.com.Lot 38: DJURBERG, Daniel: Karta över Po...
30/08/2025

A few highlights from the maps section of our current auction on Invaluable.com.

Lot 38: DJURBERG, Daniel: Karta över Polynesien (1797). An unusual Swedish map of Australasia. Djurberg’s eccentric use of the toponym ‘Ulimaroa' for Australia appears to have arisen from his misconstruing a Maori term cited in the journals from Cook's first voyage.

Lot 125: Scherer: Repraesentatio Geographica (1702). A curious world map on a north polar projection, showing the route of Magellan's circumnavigation.

Lot 45: Bowen: Complete Map of the Southern Continent (1744). The first dedicated English map of Australia.

Lot 132: Wonder Map of Melbourne (1934).

Lot 42: Zatta: Nuove Scoperte fatte nel 1765, 67 e 69 nel Mare del Sud (1776). A most attractive map of the eastern two-thirds of Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific, showing the tracks of the voyages of Cook, Byron, Carteret and Wallis.

A few highlights from the space exploration section of our current auction on Invaluable.com. 143: A commemorative First...
29/08/2025

A few highlights from the space exploration section of our current auction on Invaluable.com.

143: A commemorative First Day Cover signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the three astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission.

Lot 149: Apollo 13 Robbins medallion. Number 260 of only 404 examples of this sterling silver medallion available only to NASA astronauts. This example comes from the personal collection of John L. 'Jack' Swigert, pilot of the command module on the Apollo 13 mission, who uttered the often-misquoted words 'Okay, Houston ... we've had a problem'.

Lot 148: Apollo 13 medallions and memorabilia.

Lot 140: A group of flown fragments from Apollo 11. They comprise salvaged fragments of the heatshield, Kapton foil and ablative plug of the Command Module 'Columbia'.

Timed Auction of Maps, Autographs, and Space Memorabilia. 31 August 2025The broad selection of maps includes numerous ea...
28/08/2025

Timed Auction of Maps, Autographs, and Space Memorabilia. 31 August 2025

The broad selection of maps includes numerous early examples from the Pacific region and Australasia. Some stand-out items are Bowen’s Complete Map of the Southern Continent (1744) and Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia (circa 1862). The voyages of James Cook feature prominently, and other cartographers of note are Freycinet, Laurie & Whittle, Ortelius, and Zatta.

Notable autographs include Alexander Graham Bell, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Nelson Mandela, and American Presidents Wilson, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon … indeed, most of them all the way up to Trump.

The Apollo Program missions underpin the space memorabilia, with numerous signed covers by many of the astronauts made famous by the Moon landings, or in the case of Apollo 13, by NOT landing on the Moon. Space-flown items include a Robbins Medallion from the estate of Jack Swigert, pilot of the command module on the Apollo 13 mission, who uttered the often-misquoted words 'Okay, Houston ... we've had a problem'.

You can view the catalogue at: https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/QNOSHXV1JX

There are only a few more days to enjoy our visiting exhibition of mediaeval manuscripts.Here are just a few highlights:...
05/03/2025

There are only a few more days to enjoy our visiting exhibition of mediaeval manuscripts.

Here are just a few highlights:

A historiated scene of the Adoration of Jesus by Mary and Joseph (French, fifteenth century).

A large illuminated antiphonal leaf with historiated initial showing the Annunciation (Italian, fifteenth century).

A large illuminated antiphonal leaf (Tuscan, fourteenth century).

An illuminated leaf from a book of hours, with stunning floriate border (French, fifteenth century).

This is a selling exhibition, with beautiful pieces available for a range of budgets!

We are delighted to announce that friend of the shop Dominique Schmidt is returning to Adelaide this Fringe season to pr...
17/02/2025

We are delighted to announce that friend of the shop Dominique Schmidt is returning to Adelaide this Fringe season to present another exhibition of exquisite mediaeval illuminated manuscripts on vellum, including leaves from Books of Hours, Gregorian Chants and Antiphonals, from the 13th century to the 19th century.

28 February – 8 March
12–6pm each day
In store only, 196 North Terrace, Adelaide.

Adelaide Fringe

A highlight from our recent catalogue:JONES, Owen: The Grammar of OrnamentLondon, Bernard Quaritch, 1868 [third edition]...
03/02/2025

A highlight from our recent catalogue:

JONES, Owen: The Grammar of Ornament
London, Bernard Quaritch, 1868 [third edition]/ 1856.

Jones's splendid colour plates reproduce decorative motifs from a wide range of cultures and periods, and the work remains a classic of design and illustration.

AU$1250

Item #142919

Our last catalogue for the year contains some rare and impressive presentation copies, including 'The Native Tribes of C...
16/12/2024

Our last catalogue for the year contains some rare and impressive presentation copies, including 'The Native Tribes of Central Australia', Spencer and Gillen’s first joint publication in 1899, ‘a landmark in anthropological history’. We have two other presentation sets from Spencer, and a signed letter. From General Sir John Monash, we have a presentation copy of 'The Australian Victories in France in 1918' (1920), offered together with a signed portrait photograph and typed letter. Our copy of John Betjeman's 'Collected Poems' (1958, first edition) contains a signed Christmas card with an unpublished poem in Betjeman’s hand.

Photography again features prominently: items include an album compiled by a South Australian participant en route to the aerial pageant at Essendon Aerodrome in May 1929; a complete set of 100 stereographs of India (plus part-sets on Jerusalem and Japan); and a stunning portrait by Charles Scott of a young Indigenous woman, Clara, near Oodnadatta in 1903-04.

Time on your hands, and resolving to read more this New Year? You can’t go past the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O’Brian, especially in the handsome Folio Society edition, complete in 20 volumes …

We close for a short break on Christmas Eve, reopening on Monday 6 January. Our new business hours will be Monday to Thursday, 10 am to 5.30 pm. Semi-retirement? Hardly! Fridays will be spent getting on top of the veritable mountain of valuable paper in the warehouse and multiple storage facilities. You have been warned: our catalogues and auctions will be more frequent, and more tempting!

As ever, many thanks for your support this year, and all the best for Christmas and the New Year.

Mick, Sue, Tom, Robert, David and Harry.

Catalogue link: https://www.treloars.com/catalogues/catalogue-83

This manuscript recipe book, compiled by one Mrs Bathurst around 1817, is another unusual item in Monday's auction.As we...
07/12/2024

This manuscript recipe book, compiled by one Mrs Bathurst around 1817, is another unusual item in Monday's auction.

As well as the expected recipes for jellies, breads, puddings, cakes, pickles and fruit wines, there are also numerous remedies for everyday maladies.

One 'excellent medicine for infants' calls for coral powder, brandy and laudanum; a cure for a cough calls for '80 drops of o***m'; and the first ingredient in the recipe for Goulard Water is 'Two tea spoons full of extract of lead'. (Don't try these at home!)

Other recipes include household necessities such as a preparation 'for destroying bugs', tooth powder, boot black, and furniture polish.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/manuscript-volume-of-recipes-and-home-remedies-18-105-c-ee241c1bf8?objectID=193507734

to indulge – but not over-indulge – this Christmas?!! Look no further than our current auction, which finishes this Mo...
06/12/2024

to indulge – but not over-indulge – this Christmas?!! Look no further than our current auction, which finishes this Monday afternoon! And if nobody else looks (and bids), this is what we currently have on offer for you:

The 1847 first edition of one of the great Australian colour-plate books, 'South Australia Illustrated' by George French Angas, for $11,250

A vintage blue-toned carbon print by Frank Hurley from Mawson’s ‘Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914’, for $3000

Carron’s 'Narrative of an Expedition ... between Rockingham Bay and Cape York' (1849) for $6000

The Royal Photographic Society’s 1931 portfolio, Pictures from the Tyng Collection, containing a superb photogravure of 'Bewegungs Studie [Study of Movement]' by Rudolf Koppitz, for $2500

'Idyllia' [Sydney, N.L. Press, 1922], one of only 133 copies with five original signed etchings by Norman Lindsay, for $9600

'A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship "Endeavour"' (1771), the first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, attributed to James Magra, for $25,000 …

These are just some of the many books, photographs, maps and prints being offered at attractive reserves at the auction. (The above prices include the buyer’s premiums.)

View and bid at: https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/LPT6JSKUMO

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