Sport

# 24237

MICHELL, H. (ed)

[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.

With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …

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# 46361

[Photographer unknown]

Kuala Lumpur v. Special Service Squadron. [16 February, 1924].

[Title from caption on mount]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 230 x 280 mm; on original board mount, 355 x 460 mm, captioned in ink across the upper margin ‘KUALA LUMPUR v. SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable (verso blank). In …

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# 45072

[POULTON, S. E., attributed]

[ROWING] The Radley and Eton crews, Henley, 26 June 1858.

Two albumen print photographs with hand tinting, in uniform arch-top format, dimensions 75 x 62 mm; mounted side-by-side on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption between the pair reading ‘Radley and Eton crews, Henley, June 26, 1858’; beneath each print (in pencil, in the same hand as the …

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# 46032

STAINFORTH, Martin

Racehorses in Australia : with paintings by Martin Stainforth

Edited by Dr. W. H. Lang, Ken Austin and Dr. Stewart McKay. Produced by Harry Julius. Sydney: Art in Australia Limited, 1922. First edition. Quarto, quarter white cloth over papered boards, in the illustrated dustjacket (some minor stains), endpapers with offsetting, owner’s name dated 1922, occasional foxing, 184 pp, with numerous tipped-in colour plates and …

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# 44664

[Photographer unknown]

A game of croquet in progress. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1875.

Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, on its original card mount with printed red border; the print has some fading at the right-hand edge but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean and stable. This photograph was sourced as part of a group of albumen prints taken in the mid 1870s …

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# 45622

RIISFELDT, Emil

Studio portrait of a young boy holding a cricket bat. Sydney, c.1882.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. 488 (late 490) George Street, opposite Central Police Court, Sydney. First Prize, Melbourne International Exhibition’; the print has a bent top corner, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the …

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# 45810

PICKARD, F.W.

Trout fishing in New Zealand in wartime

New York : G.P. Putnam’s, 1940. First edition. Numbered 189 of 250. Royal octavo, cloth backed papered boards lettered in gilt (rubbed), uncut, occasionally unopened; a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper for Mr. Thomas Coyle; pp 180; illustrated with photographs of New Zealand by the author’s wife; a near fine …

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# 45392

PLANT, Simon

1956 : Melbourne, modernity and the XVI Olympiad

Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned, pp. 111, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. ‘The Museum of Modern Art at Heide present the exhibition of 1956: Melbourne, Modernity and the XVI Olympiad which continues the Museum’s commitment to investigating the motivations and forces which make …

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# 45146

WEBSTER, E. H. (Edwin Herbert), 1864-1947; NORMAN, L. (Leslie)

A hundred years of yachting

/ compiled by E. H. Webster and L. Norman. Hobart : Printed by J. Walch, 1936. “Issued under the auspices of the Government of Tasmania, the Hobart Marine Board, and the Hobart City Council.” Octavo, publisher’s lettered blue cloth over boards, spine a little sunned, endpapers with mild foxing, pp 256, b/w photographic illustrations, folding …

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# 44548

[SCHROEDER & CIE.]

[MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.

[Zürich : Schroeder & Cie., 1885]. Large format albumen print, 220 x 275 mm, captioned in the negative ‘399.Glacier des Bossons’; mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf; in very good condition, the mount annotated with the word ‘Switzerland’ (in error) in blue fountain pen at lower left; the verso with another albumen print in …

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# 42245

FOSTER & MARTIN

[KELLY GANG; CRICKET] Signed studio portrait of Francis Augustus Hare, Superintendent of the Victorian Mounted Police, inscribed by Hare for Ivo Bligh, captain of the visiting English cricket team. “Rupertswood”, Sunbury, Christmas 1882.

Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1882]. Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 110 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Foster & Martin, Artists & Photographers, 29 & 31 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and a presentation inscription in ink by the sitter: Francis Hare, for The Honbl. Ivo Blyth [sic – *see note below]; …

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# 44084

BLAND, C. V.

Lawn bowls team. Geelong, circa 1925.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 165 x 215 mm, laid down on its original board mount with the handwritten details of the photographer on the mount l.r. ‘C. V. Bland Photo Geelong’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the four gentlemen as ‘McIntyre, Prowse, Batty, Hall’; in excellent condition. Mr. C. V. Bland was …

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# 43577

Karla DICKENS, BLAK DOUGLAS et al.

Shadow boxer

Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240170 mm), pictorial card covers printed in black on silver (lightly rubbed); pp. 72, illustrated in colour and b/w; texts by the exhibiting artists as well as Wesley Enoch and Keri Glastonbury; an as new copy. Superbly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibition Shadow Boxer, …

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# 43225

TEBBUTT, R. E. & HILL, L. G. (eds.)

The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys’ High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

Crows Nest, NSW : Charles Dunn, printer (for NSBHS), 1918. Octavo, decorative wrappers in the school colours, lower wrapper with advertisement for Miller Street furnishing firm Gourlay Bros. (light crease to lower wrapper and last couple of leaves); pp. 36, photographically illustrated; includes staff list, editorial, obituaries, class reports, student poetry and articles, debating and …

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# 43144

'BULLWORKER"

Muscles make a man

Middlesex, NJ : Margrave Corporation, circa 1970. Mail order catalogue, quarto, pp. [12] with order card, illustrated in colour. Illustrated catalogued for the ‘Bullworker’ isometric exercise device. ‘Burst out of your shell and be a REAL man’. ‘5 minutes a day must get you in MANSHAPE’. ‘Bullworker is a product and fitness company that specializes …

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# 42514

San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.

[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …

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