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

Adelaide: Abel Tasman Press, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Abel Tasman Press, 1982. Octavo, [vi], 139 pages. Card covers lightly rubbed and creased; an excellent copy. Not least, Colin Yallop: 'The Languages of the Australian Aborigines'.

London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., 1926. Octavo, xii, 326 pages with 2 maps, and 28 illustrations plus 20 pages of plates (from drawings and photographs by the author). Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers very slightly bumped and marked; edges a little foxed, with a small stain to the top edge; occasional light foxing internally; an excellent copy. Foreword by Fridtjof Nansen.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. London, Secker and Warburg, 1971/ 1969 (Volume 4, revised edition), and 1968/ 1960. Octavo, four volumes; card covers; spines lightly sunned; Volume 3 with a couple of tiny tears to the spine; a very good set.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978 (first thus). Quarto, 296 pages with 'more than 140 illustrations, including 124 in full color'. Colour-pictorial papered boards; plain rear cover a little foxed; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed embossed colour-pictorial gold foil dustwrapper. 'No vin ordinaire, this book combines the great Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacinto Dali and the world's greatest wines to produce a refreshing blend of art, fun and information. The illustrations are unique in their variety and visual humor. Among the numerous reproductions of Dali's paintings and drawings are several that he created expressly for this book. Then he has taken late-nineteenth-century French academic works and fifteenth-century miniatures depicting the wine-making process and altered them, giving them his own inimitable stamp. The results are unexpected, outrageous, and amusing' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

Cambridge: Hurst Gallery, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cambridge, Hurst Gallery, 1990. Quarto, 63 pages with 78 illustrations (all sale lots) (many in colour). Colour pictorial card covers lightly scuffed and rubbed; top corner slightly bumped; tidy ink annotations of list prices throughout; a very good copy. Hurst Gallery sale catalogue, with a loosely inserted price list.

Adelaide: The Author, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, The Author, 1997 [first edition]. Octavo; pictorial papered boards; pencilled ownership signature; an excellent copy. Number 222 of only 300 copies. Signed by the author on the title page.

Adelaide: The Author, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Small quarto, [24] pages with illustrations by Hugo Shaw. Pictorial wrappers a little unevenly sunned; head of the spine lightly creased (with very slight associated creasing throughout); a very good copy. Signed by the author and the artist in ink on the title page. From the author's foreword: 'This light-hearted nonsense was written in 1933 for the amusement of my fellow-students in Marie Tuck's life-drawing class. I was eighteen and in my first year at the South Australian School of Art'.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Secker and Warburg, 1986 (first edition). Octavo; papered boards; an excellent copy in the excellent dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1982. Octavo, xiv, 401 pages plus 16 pages of plates. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the slightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper. Signed in ink by D'Alpuget (in full on the title-page).

London: J. Debrett, 1789. Very Good. London, J. Debrett, 1789. Octavo, [ii] (title leaf), vi, 8 [tables of exports from St Petersburg, including two long double-sided folding sheets), 86 pages. Disbound (edges lightly speckled), with residue from the old binding on the spine; title leaf slightly chipped at the corners, with some residual glue and a tiny hole near the spine; leading edge of one folding table a little chipped and dusty; a very good copy. On page 56, a correction has been made in ink (lines 6 and 7: 'a single horse' is now '2 horses'), and from lines 15-17, the following has been crosshatched out: 'that the writer of these Queries has lifted it upon his shoulder' (with reference to 'Carronades of a small bore'). An early signature (John Horwoods) is written in ink on the verso of the title page. Dalrymple (1726-1810), fourth baronet of Cranstoun, was one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland. He was a prolific author of history and current affairs, and he 'occupied his leisure… Read More

Birmingham: Gryphon Editions, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1655. Tall octavo; full gilt-decorated leather, all edges gilt; a fine copy with the publisher's supplied personalised bookplate on the front flyleaf. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet.

London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1913. 3rd Edition. Very Good. London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1913 (third edition, corrected)/ [1910]. Large octavo, six volumes, xxiv, 284; xxii, 285-539; xiv, 256; xiv, 257-555; xiv, 272; and xiv, 273-580 pages, plus numerous maps (some in colour, some folding) and over 50 plates (some in colour). Green buckram stamped in gilt and black; top edges gilt; covers a little bumped, marked and rubbed, with some trifling wear at the corner tips; front joint of fourth volume slightly split; spines a little darkened; some scattered foxing (generally light); some leaves dog-eared, with a few other minor signs of age and use; a very good set. A history of Ireland to 1908. The final volume includes sections on Irish emigration to Australia and America, as well as on the cultural and literary movements of the early 20th century. [6 items].

Adelaide: The Author, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, The Author, 1982. Octavo, [viii], 225, [4] pages with numerous illustrations plus the loosely inserted note on the cover, by S.T. Gill. Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Loosely inserted is the small original prospectus, and a related newspaper clipping. Pencilled on the title-page is a brief annotation indicating that the previous owner had confirmation from the author that only 1000 copies were printed.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. Octavo, xii, 368 pages plus a folding colour map (435 × 190 mm). Original mustard yellow cloth with extensive brown and green floral decoration and attractive gilt lettering; all edges uncut (top edge dusty); covers a little marked and discoloured, and rubbed and bumped at the extremities; occasional foxing; trifling chips to a few uncut edges due to careless opening of the leaves; a few minor signs of handling; a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of Bernard Gore Brett on the front pastedown, and an early address stamp on the dedication page. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870, my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography') and the rest of the family… Read More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. Octavo, xii, 368 pages plus a folding colour map (435 × 190 mm). Original mustard yellow cloth with extensive brown and green floral decoration and attractive gilt lettering; all edges uncut (and now discoloured); cloth a little marked and discoloured, with the spine heavily sunned; corners a little bumped, with light wear to the extremities; minor signs of age and use; overall, a decent copy. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870, my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography') and the rest of the family north. She spent the better part of the next three years in the Territory (returning south for her marriage in 1871 to a nephew of the late Governor), before leaving for… Read More

Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1984 [facsimile edition]/ 1887. Octavo, xii, 368, [3] (publisher's list) pages plus a folding map. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.

Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1984 (facsimile edition)/ 1887. Octavo, xii, 368, [3] (publisher's list) pages plus a folding map. Papered boards very slightly marked and rubbed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (very lightly sunned on the spine). Provenance: the anthropologist Dr Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (dated July 1992) on the front free endpaper.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1984. Large quarto, xvi, 829 pages with numerous tables and illustrations. Decorated cloth; a fine copy. Volume 5 in the 'Handbook of North American Indians' series.

London: The Folio Society, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 1986 (first thus). Octavo, x, 342 pages with numerous illustrations by Ian Ribbons, plus endpaper diagram of a sailing ship. Cloth with a pictorial plate mounted on the front cover; a fine copy in the excellent slipcase (slightly bumped and rubbed). Introduction by Mervyn Horder.

Highton: The Author, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Highton, The Author, 1995. Quarto; pictorial papered boards; bottom edge bumped; top edge lightly foxed; a very good copy with the excellent, lightly scuffed dustwrapper. Inscribed, dated (March 1995) and signed by the author. The exploits of Major-General Vasey's 7th Division in the Markham/Ramu Valley campaign in New Guinea, September 1943 to early 1944.