An album of eleven 1920s photographs promoting the Shell Company in Australia
by [Trade Catalogue]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
First Edition. Hardcover. The album is a commercial cloth-bound ring-binder (215 × 285 mm); the vintage gelatin silver photographs (each approximately 160 × 205 mm) are expertly mounted on cloth, with typed captions on the verso. Eight of the plates depict scenes of Shell's business activities in Australia (five are in South Australia). These include aerial views of the bulk installations at Gore Bay, NSW, and Birkenhead, SA; Sir Alan Cobham landing at Albert Part, Victoria on 29 August 1926; a fleet of 20 cars used to carry 'Reso' tourists into Central Australia; the 'Crossley car used by T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of York on their Australian visit, 1927'; and several of now-exotic trucks and tankers. The first three photographs (reproduced across two plates) are reduced versions of large panoramas, two showing different orientations of the Shell refinery on the Thames, the third one showing the 'Shell Installation in California'. There is also one view of Long Beach, California, bristling with oil derricks. Loosely inserted are two related pamphlets from the early 1930s: 'Shell Motorists' Handbook' (with a superb art deco cover and two pages of hints on driving by Sir Malcolm Campbell), and 'From Small Beginnings' (a potted history of Shell in Australia). [3 items].
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- Seller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 96199
- Title
- An album of eleven 1920s photographs promoting the Shell Company in Australia
- Author
- [Trade Catalogue]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.