Sport
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# 31750
MARTINDALE, F. W.
[CRICKET]. Alice in Holidayland.
A parody in prose, verse and picture. Perpetrated with apologies to the immortal originals of Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel. Pictures by Frank H. Mason and Noel Pocock. Second edition. Leeds: Chorley & Pickersgill, n.d. [c. 1920]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cards (marked, soiled, a couple of small pen marks and tears along the spine), pp. …
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# 31618
ELLIS, Rennie
Cup Fever. Rennie Ellis at the Melbourne Cup
Melbourne : Lothian, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, extensively illustrated with Ellis’ photographs of the ‘race that stops a nation’ at the height of 80s glamour.
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# 31151
[PHAR LAP]
Phar lap
[Melbourne? : National Museum? circa 1935]. Colour photographic print, presumably issued separately as a souvenir, 205 x 255 mm, light handling crease. ‘Winner of the Melbourne Cup and £66,738 in total prize money. By Night Raid, from Entreaty. Foaled 1926, died 1932. Exhibited in the National Museum, Melbourne’ – captioned below.
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# 30035
LAVERTY, Colin
Frederick Woodhouse and sons. Australian Colonial Sporting Painters (deluxe edition)
Sydney: The David Ell Press, 1980. Oblong quarto, bgilt-lettered leather binding in cloth slipcase, all edges gilt, 107pp, uillustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper. The deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies signed and numbered by the author and publisher, on a label which has offset the page, as usual. A major work on the famous …
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# 31069
JONES, Henry
Studio portrait of a mother and her young children, one of whom holds a cricket bat. Adelaide, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm, verso with pictorial back mark in mauve worded ‘Henry Jones, Artist Photographer (Late Operator at Mr. Duryea’s) Opposite White’s Rooms, King William Street, Adelaide’; the print and mount are in very good condition.
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# 30672
PATERSON BROTHERS
[CRICKET] Outdoor photograph of a group of Melbourne schoolboys and their female tutors, Melbourne, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); verso of mount imprinted ‘Paterson, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The Paterson Brothers studio was located at 8 Bourke Street East from 1862-1873. Based on the fashion and hairstyles of the three women pictured, this …
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# 30281
Photographer unknown.
Three photographs of Wesley College, Melbourne, taken in 1904: the school’s champion Australian Rules Football team; view of the main building; view looking across the school oval.
Three sepia tone gelatin silver photographs, each 70 x 90 mm, printed on Kodak postcard stock (89 x 138 mm), all mailed from Melbourne and addressed to Master Norman Hart in Launceston, Tasmania (postmarks dated 28 June 1904; 19 September 1904; 14 November 1904), the fronts with handwritten messages signed W. H. (William Hart?) which …
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# 28494
ALSAGOFF, Syed Mohsen
The Alsagoff family in Malaysia : A.H. 1240 (A.D. 1824)-A.H. 1382 (A.D. 1962) : with biographical and contemporary sketches of some members of the Alsagoff family. (Presentation copy)
Singapore : The Author, [1963]. Quarto (265 mm), illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, upper wrapper chipped at head of spine and creased at top corner), staple bound; presentation inscription to title ‘With compliments from Dato A. M. Alsagoff 24/4/63‘; pp 50, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally very clean and sound. This well-illustrated publication relates the …
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# 28455
HINGSTON, James
Guide for excursionists from Melbourne.
dedicated to all in search of Health, Recreation, and Pleasure. Melbourne : H. Thomas, 1868. First edition. Duodecimo, original flush-cut limp green cloth with gilt stamped design to upper board spelling the word ‘OUTS’, pp 256, [8 blank], [55 advertisements], a very good copy. Ownership inscription of Henry James Long, pharmacist, dated 30th October 1868, …
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# 28439
CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
Studio portrait of a young brother and sister holding hands; the boy is posing with his cricket bat. Armidale, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘A. Cunningham, Photographic Artist, Barney Street, Armidale, New England’; the print is in good condition, as is the mount (some light toning to verso). Pioneer New England photographer Andrew Cunningham is probably best known for his 1870 carte de …
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# 28270
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of five official programmes for Grand Open-Air Concerts at the M.C.G. organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1902-03.
Melbourne : Syd. Day [for the Melbourne Cricket Club], 1902-03. Five individual programmes for Monday-evening concerts on 22 & 29 December 1902, and 5 January, 2 February and 30 March 1903. Narrow quarto (290 x 150 mm), single-sheet flyers printed on both sides (versos with advertisements for Robert Hurst shoes); each example has some marginal …
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# 28435
DAILY MIRROR (U.K.)
Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion Australian wood-cutters.
[London, U.K. : Daily Mirror, 1909 or 1910]. Two gelatin silver print photographs, 205 x 150 mm and 150 x 205 mm, respectively; versos with wet stamp of of the London Daily Mirror, and an identical caption label which reads: ‘Fine Fellers. Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion wood-cutters, felling trees on Lord Salisbury’s estate at …
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# 28553
[OLYMPICS] XVI Olympiad, Melbourne. Admission ticket to the Main Stadium, Melbourne Cricket Ground. November 29, 1956.
[Melbourne : Australian Olympic Committee, 1956]. Admission ticket, 89 x 118 mm; printed in pink and green on white paper, the design on the recto featuring the Olympic torch and rings and a male athlete throwing the javelin superimposed on a map of Australia; verso with seating plan for the MCG; light vertical crease, otherwise …
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# 28279
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of notices relating to the Bowling Club Tournament organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1909-10.
Melbourne : MCC, October – December 1909. I. 6 October 1909. Folio, [1] page; with information about the MCC Cup (open exclusively to bona-fide Playing Members of the MCC Bowling Club), prize money, and Mode of Play. II. 21 October 1909. Folio, [4] pp; with information about the MCC Cup, prize money, Handicaps and Draw, …
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# 28271
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of four official programmes for Grand Open-Air Concerts at the M.C.G. organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1903-04.
Melbourne : Syd. Day [for the Melbourne Cricket Club], 1903-04. Four individual programmes for Monday-evening concerts on 16 November & 7 December 1903, and 11 January and 1 February 1904. Narrow quarto (290 x 150 mm), single-sheet flyers printed on both sides (versos with advertisements for Robert Hurst shoes); each example has some marginal loss, …
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# 28293
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of notices relating to Annual General Meetings of the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1908-1924.
Melbourne : Sands & McDougall [or] Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, 1908-1924. I. 10 August 1908. Quarto, [1] page; advising details of a Special General Meeting re. Alteration to Rules, to be held at the Masonic Hall, Collins Street, 11 September 1908, at 8 p.m. II. 18 August 1908. Quarto, [4] pp; advising details of the …