Search Results: Authors starting with R from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Sorrento: The Author, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sorrento, The Author, 2007. Foolscap folio, [iv], viii, 480 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus a folding map; an errata slip is mounted on the inside surface of the front cover. Pictorial card covers a little creased and rubbed; gift inscription on the title page; a very good copy. The brief chronological history (pages iii-v) indicates that flying training commenced at Geraldton on 10 March 1941, and on 31 May 1945 'No 4 SFTS ceased to exist'.

Sydney: Reed, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Reed, 1980. Quarto, 128 pages with numerous illustrations. Papered boards; extremities a little bumped; front cover slightly bowed; leading edge lightly stained; ink gift inscription on the front flyleaf; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, creased and torn. Numbers 30, 31 and 93 Squadrons RAAF, and Number 77 Wing RAAF in the Pacific. Not least, the appendices: Awards, Aircrew and Aircraft Serials and History.

A gelatin silver photograph (156 × 118 mm), reproducing the original artwork for the menu ('Drawn P. Lilley, 22.12 43'). Inscribed and signed on the day by Flying Officer E.V. Moore, Messing Officer.

Adelaide: Government Printer, 1885. Very Good. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1885. Folio, 9 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound (now disbound); an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1885; only 570 copies printed. The paper reprints three letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1883, as well as an 1884 report from the NSW Government Veterinarian on rabbit and cattle disease in Tasmania.

Melbourne: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne, J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. Foolscap folio, 6 pages (last blank). As issued (without wrappers); top left-hand corner a little creased, with a very short marginal tear below it; an excellent copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1907; one of 950 copies. Jean Danysz (1860-1928), microbiologist, 'spent much of his working life at the Institut Pasteur in France and isolated a "new" strain of Pasteurella which was thought to selectively kill off feral rabbits. He arrived in Australia in 1906 on the invitation of the Council of the Pastures Protection Board to set up trials of his biological agent. Danysz and his workers were given a sizeable area on Broughton Island (off the New South Wales coast) to carry out their… Read More

Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1968 (fifth edition)/ 1950. Octavo; cloth a little bumped (chiefly to the foot of the spine); top edge slightly foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned, bumped and chipped with very slight loss.

[Hindmarsh: Unknown Photographer, 1898. [Hindmarsh, Unknown Photographer, circa September 1898]. An original gelatin silver photograph (image size 151 × 209 mm, with the small reference number H2 in the negative), mounted on thick card as issued (247 × 304 mm). Small amount of matching watercolour applied to the top right-hand corner of the image when it was printed (to mask a slight imperfection in the negative); minor surface loss to silverfish to the mount, with slight loss to the corners; the photograph itself is in excellent condition, and all blemishes to the mount can be completely matted out. 'The banjo was introduced to America by enslaved Africans in the mid-1600s.... the earliest banjos, also known as banjars, were not the instruments we recognize today. Early banjos varied greatly. They could have any number of strings. The body could be made from a gourd or other hollowed frame. The shared feature was an animal skin stretched across the body which gave the instrument its signature tone… Read More

Paris: Georges Crès et Cie, 1919. Paperback. Fine. Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1919 (first thus). Octavo, xxiv, 222 pages with numerous pictorial head-pieces and ornaments by Ciolkowski (engraved on wood by G. Aubert), plus a portrait of Racine and an engraved frontispiece (after an anonymous 17th century engraver). In a contemporary fine binding of half brown morocco and marbled boards, retaining the original wrappers (with the spine mounted on a guard at the rear); spine tooled in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers a trifle rubbed; a few leaves a little browned at the edges from the turn-ins; essentially a fine copy. Number 701 of a total edition of 1700 copies, this being one of 1650 copies on 'vélin de Rives' paper (numbered 51-1700). The fifth title in the Le Théâtre d'Art series.

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [Paris], Gallimard, 1999. Small octavo, xx, 1193 pages. Full leather; top edges a little dusty; endpapers very slightly foxed; an excellent copy in the original acetate and paper dustwrapper (unevenly sunned, very slightly chipped and rubbed). Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. The first of two volumes.

Paris: Garnier Frères, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Garnier Frères, [circa 1890s]. Small octavo, xii, 740 pages with a frontispiece portrait. Quarter morocco and cloth stamped in gilt and blind; all edges gilt; covers slightly rubbed; ink ownership signature ('Helene Muller'); a few trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy.

London: Faber, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber, 1951. Octavo, xvi, 48 pages plus 100 plates (4 in colour). Cloth very slightly rubbed and bumped; endpapers offset; a very good copy with the sunned and slightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Adelaide: Art Gallery of SA, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Art Gallery of SA, 2005. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Exhibition catalogue.

Adelaide: The Art Gallery of South Australia, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia, 1986. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. Exhibition Catalogue.

Adelaide: Art Gallery of SA, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Art Gallery of SA, 2005. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Signed by the author, then Director of the Art Gallery of SA, on the title page. Exhibition catalogue.

Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005. Quarto, 336 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Signed by the author, with a pamphlet for the exhibtion of the same title loosely inserted.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. Octavo, xii, 208, [4] (publisher's advertisements) pages with 27 illustrations. Blind-stamped cloth very slightly rubbed; spine lightly sunned; endpapers a little discoloured; bookplate of William Godley on the front pastedown; an excellent copy.

London: Anthony Blond, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London, Anthony Blond, 1971 (first edition). Octavo; papered boards slightly sunned; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper slightly creased, chipped and torn with slight (chiefly surface) loss to the extremities.

London: The Folio Society, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 2003 (second printing)/ 2001. Large octavo, xxviii, 784 pages plus 15 colour plates. Gilt-lettered quarter leather and pictorial cloth; top edge tinted blue; foot of the spine a trifle bumped; top edge a little faded; an excellent copy in the slightly bumped and scuffed slipcase. Selected, retold and with an Introduction by William Radice.

New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Bollingen Foundation, 1953 [second printing]/ 1952. Quarto, xxiv, 357 pages plus 188 full-page plates and a double-page folding map. Quarter contrasting cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed with a few tiny edge tears. Bollingen Series XXXII.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1966. Octavo; cloth slightly bumped at the extremities and very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little creased, rubbed and torn with minor loss. With the ownership signature of noted Russian scholar [Associate Professor] Fredric S. Zuckerman, and his pencilled annotations and emphases.