Sport
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# 50375
BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O’Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O’Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.
I. Portrait of Arthur Augustus O’Mullane (1841-1865), by Batchelder & O’Neill (41 Collins Street, East, Melbourne). Albumen print, carte de visite format (103 x 63 mm. mount). Fine condition; accompanied by its original album window mount inscribed with the sitter’s name ‘Arthur O’Mullane’. II. Portrait of George Jeremiah Patrick O’Mullane (1842-1866), by Batchelder & O’Neill …
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# 50258
HUNTINGTON, Randolph
History in brief of “Leopard” and “Linden”, General Grant’s Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.
Also their Sons “General Beale”, “Hegira” and “Islam”, bred by Randolph Huntington. Also reference to the Celebrated Stallion “Henry Clay”. [Philadelphia] : printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth over bevelled boards (stained, edges rubbed), decorated endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, crease to …
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# 50401
HUGHES, Thomas W. & QUINLAN, Henry G. (Hon. Secretaries)
[SYDNEY] East Sydney Gymnastic & Social Club, 123 William Street. A Musical and Variety Entertainment will be held on Tuesday, 17th December, 1889, at 8 o’clock p.m.
[Sydney: s.n.], 1889. Invitation card, 115 x 75 mm; lithograph printed recto only in red on lightweight buff card; endirsed ‘Complimentary’ in pencil, and initialled by a committee member; toned and lightly marked, small loss at one corner, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the card was once mounted in an …
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# 50272
Thomas GARTLAN, S.J. (President)
[SYDNEY] St. Ignatius’ College Rowing Club. Regatta … Riverview. Saturday, June 8th, 1889.
Sydney : Batson & Co., 1889. Duodecimo folding card, 120 x 75 mm; lithograph printed on all four sides, in red, blue, green, orange and gold on pale green card; second and third sides with Programme of races (a few pencil annotations); fourth side with Club officers and statement of thanks; front with section of …
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# 50271
REV. T. GARTLAN, S.J. (President)
[SYDNEY] A.M.D.G. St. Ignatius’ College Rowing Club. Annual Regatta, Riverview. Saturday, June 2nd, 1888.
Sydney : J.G. O’Connor, 1883. Duodecimo folding card, 113 x 93 mm; lithograph printed on all four sides, in black, green, ink and gold on cream card; second and third sides with Programme; fourth side with Club officers and statement of thanks (section of paper adhesion from where the programme was removed from an album …
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, c.1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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# 50280
MAYNARD, John
Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’ : Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013. Third edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 152, illustrated.
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# 49964
PATERSON BROTHERS
Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 104 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists. Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. A very early colonial cricket photograph. The Camberwell Common School opened on 19 August 1867, roughly on …
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# 50026
MILES, Henry Downes
Pugilistica : being one hundred and forty-four years of the history of British boxing.
London : Wedon & Co., [1880]. First complete edition. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform bindings of gilt-ruled half calf over cloth (lightly marked), spines in compartments with repeated pugilist device in gilt, maroon leather title and volume labels in gilt; top edges gilt; pp. xvi, 507; 538 [6]; 528, [6], illustrated; outermost leaves in each volume …
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# 50159
NUCOLORVUE
Kosciusko Road in summer, Snowy Mountains
Moorabbin, Vic. : Nucolorvue, [circa 1970]. Paper wallet, 113 x 153 mm, with colour photographic front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 10 colour photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.
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# 50158
THE GREGORY PICTORIAL COMPANY
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko
Sydney : The Gregory Pictorial Company, [between 1955 and 1960]. Paper wallet, 113 x 147 mm, with illustrated front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 12 b/w photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.
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# 50147
SKI STUDIO (SYDNEY)
The Chalet, Kiandra, N.S.W. : Snowy Mountains of Australia.
[Sydney, NSW] : Ski Studio, 106 Riley Street, [circa 1950]. Promotional flyer, 215 x 140 mm, printed recto only on thin card; vignette illustration and information about accommodation for skiers and holidaymakers in the ‘completely modernised brick and stone building, supplied with electric light, hot and cold water, sewerage and central heating’; light foxing and …
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# 36864
HERBERTE, H. A.
A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …
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# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, c.1901.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …
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# 48788
Karla DICKENS, BLAK DOUGLAS et al.
Shadow boxer
Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240 x 170 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 …
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# 47167
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
An informal cricket match in progress on the banks of the River Angas, Strathalbyn, South Australia, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 160 x 205 mm, laid down on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, the mount inscribed in pencil by the album’s compiler ‘Strathalbyn’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in fine condition; verso with a view of King William Street, Adelaide (also by Sweet), in good condition; a …




![[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O'Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O'Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3378-300x300.jpg)

![[SYDNEY] East Sydney Gymnastic & Social Club, 123 William Street. A Musical and Variety Entertainment will be held on Tuesday, 17th December, 1889, at 8 o'clock p.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3434-300x300.jpg)
![[SYDNEY] St. Ignatius' College Rowing Club. Regatta ... Riverview. Saturday, June 8th, 1889.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3103-300x300.jpg)
![[SYDNEY] A.M.D.G. St. Ignatius' College Rowing Club. Annual Regatta, Riverview. Saturday, June 2nd, 1888.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3099-300x300.jpg)





![[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/06/17122410/2022_DSFB_3675-300x300.jpg)




