Sport

  • # 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 …

  • # 46030

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] Cricket

    [Ballarat and Melbourne] : National Game Co., [c.1930]. Copyright No. 3048. Thick board, 310 x 480 mm (folding, with cloth backed spine); fold-out colour printed game board depicting an Australian Cricket match in progress in a large stadium, the grandstands filled with supporters (probably a depiction of the MCG, with some artistic license), the legend …

  • # 46031

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] Tennis

    [Ballarat and Melbourne] : National Game Co., [c.1930]. Copyright No. [blank]. Thick board, 365 x 365 mm (folding, with cloth backed spine); fold-out colour printed game board depicting a tennis match with spectators, front board with pictorial colour onlaid title label; some mild rubbing to edges of outer boards, slightly split along spine, corner of …

  • # 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 …

  • # 46105

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] Ludo

    [Ballarat and Melbourne] : National Game Co., [c.1910]. Thick board, 365 x 370 mm (folding, with cloth backed spine); fold-out colour printed game board, front board with pictorial colour onlaid title label; some mild rubbing to edges of outer boards, slightly stained, a very good example. Scarce and attractive. ‘National Games of Ballarat and Melbourne …

  • # 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 …

  • # 42656

    SPRANGE, Jasper (printer)

    [BROADSIDE] CRICKET. On Monday, October 1, 1798, a Match of Cricket, will be played on Tunbridge-Wells Common, between Mr. R. HOSKINS and Mr. DAY, (of Mayfield) for TEN POUNDS.

    The Wickets to be pitched at 10’Clock, and the Game played out. Tunbridge Wells : Sprange, Printer, [1798]. Broadside, 250 x 195 mm, letterpress on laid paper; scattered light foxing and some browning, but overall well preserved; tipped onto a later (probably early twentieth-century) paper backing sheet. An extremely early cricket broadside, advertising a challenge …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 42666

    BLAKE, John J. (printer)

    [BROADSIDE] CRICKET. On Wednesday, the 30th August, 1809, will be played, in the Roe Buck Field, Maidstone, a Game of Cricket, H. Russell, Esq. & Mr. T. Bowyer, against Mr. John Amos & Mr. T. Save, for Twenty Guineas,

    the wickets to be pitched at twelve o’clock. A good ordinary at two o’clock, by J. Shore. [Maidstone] : from the Press of J. Blake, [1809]. Broadside, 220 x 140 mm, letterpress on wove paper with engraved oval vignette of a double-wicket cricket match in progress; three light horizontal creases, several short tears (mostly closed), right …

  • # 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]; …

  • # 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 …