Sport

# 18583

Photographer unknown.

Woodchopping competition, Ballarat, circa 1910.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down on an old album page; no photographer’s imprint; verso inscribed in pencil in a modern hand ‘Wood cutting competition, Ballarat’; this inscription by the previous owner was based on original inscriptions on other photographs removed from the album, which were all taken in the Ballarat area; …

# 18889

BARDWELL, William

Photographic portrait of Richard St. George Caulfield, Secretary of the Ballarat Miners’ Race Club and Ballarat Hunt Club, circa 1868

Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘Bardwell’s Royal Studio, Opposite Theatre, Ballarat, By Special Appointment Photographer to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’, and inscribed in ink ‘R. St.G. Caulfield’; the albumen print is in fine condition; the mount is clean, with a …

# 15585

HOWITT, S[amuel]

Howitt’s angler’s manual; or concise lessons of experience

Which the proficient in delightful recreation of angling will not despise, and the learner will find the advantage of practising; containing useful instruction on every approved method of angling, and particularly on the management of the hand and rod in each method; embellished with twelve plates, of fish, fishing, baits, and tackle. Liverpool : F.G. …

# 15554

The Driffield angler, in two parts : containing descriptions of the different kinds of fresh water fish, and the best methods for taking them in rivers, lakes, and fish ponds

With full directions for baits, and the manner of making artificial flies for every month in the season. To which are added instructions for shooting : with rules for breeding, breaking, and management of Pointers and Spaniels, and the choice of guns for game and wild fowl. With a description of the The Forest Blair, in …

# 18225

MULLER, J. P. (1866 - 1938)

My system. 15 minutes’ work a day for health’s sake.

London : Ewart, Seymour & Co., n.d. [c. 1912]. Octavo, illustrated boards, cloth spine (a little worn), pp. 96, illustrated. Jørgen Peter Müller was a noted Danish gymnastics educator and pioneer of physical education. First published in Copenhagen in 1904, My System consists of a series of exercises designed to promote health and vitality. The …

# 17815

[Colorgravure Publications

The Olympic Games : Melbourne 1956

Melbourne : Colorgravure Publications, 1956. Quarto, green boards with gilt olympic torch motif, publisher stamp to fly leaf, colour and black and white images throughout, unpaginated. Red ink underling throughout. A photographic commemorative publication showing highlights of the games, participating athletes and event records. With a foolscap Requisition for reserved seating form for ticket sales.

# 17169

HIBBINS, Gillian

Sport and racing in colonial Melbourne : the cousins and me: Colden Harrison, Tom Wills and William Hammersley

Melbourne : Lynedoch, 2007. Edition limited to 500 copies; this copy is unnumbered and signed by the author on the half title. Octavo, gilt lettered brown cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket, 485 pp, illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates; a fine copy.

# 17197

"CAVENDISH"

[PLAYING CARDS] Patience games

/ with examples played through. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. London : Thos. De La Rue & Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong quarto, original blind blocked tan cloth (bright and unrubbed), upper board and spine lettered in gilt, lower board with publisher’s device in gilt, all edges gilt, pp 216, [8] publisher’s advertisements, illustrated; contents fresh, …