Sport
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# 19043
O'SHANTER, Tam
“Tasmanian Mail” Turf Register and stud book of Tasmania
Containing a full report of the past season’s racing, jockey’s register, trainers’ register, racing colours, sales of blood stock, index to running horses, length of courses etc. Rules of racing, scale of weights for age, list of winning horses, sires of the season, winners of the principal Tasmanian, Australian and English races. Stud book of …
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# 19073
SULLIVAN, Frank J.
The science of swimming
Containing instructions for acquiring all swimming strokes, and directions for becoming proficient in fancy diving. With a symposium on the best stroke for beginners. Modern methods of life saving and recuscitation. Official rules for form swimming. New York : American Sports Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly worn), pp. 113; photographic plates (including swim …
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# 19272
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 (lacking the dust jacket, corners rubbed), endpapers with offsetting, foxing, Stainforth image pasted on to half-title, inscription to preliminary leaf, 184 pp, with …
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# 18632
PATERSON BROTHERS
Photographic portrait of a top-hatted gentleman and his horse, Melbourne, circa 1862
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm (mount), verso with imprint of Photographic Artists, Paterson Brothers, Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the albumen print, with wonderfully rich tonal range and detail, and mount are in fine condition. A very early outdoor Melbourne carte de visite.
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# 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; …
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# 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 …
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# 19156
[FOOTSCRAY & DISTRICT PIGEON CLUB?]
Footscray and District Annual Pigeon Show. Federal Hall, Footscray, Friday and Saturday, June 25th and 26th 1926.
Footscray, Vic. : Webb’s Reporter Office, 1926. Octavo, original printed pink wrappers (light vertical fold, some toning), staple bound, [12] pp, with [4] interleaved pages of advertisements for local businesses printed on yellow paper; lists 127 (!) classes of pigeon with exhibitors’ names and sale prices for each particular type of bird; not illustrated; a …
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# 18497
[BROADSIDE] Furness Curaissiers’ Races. Friday, 15th June, 1827.
Ulverston : Soulby & Thornley, Printers, Market-Place, [1827]. Broadside, 210 x 165 mm, letterpress-printed text with wood engraved cartouche illustration of a horse racing scene, printed recto only on wove paper; in good condition, with some light creasing. Unrecorded Georgian era horse racing broadside, advertising a meet at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Clearly, the Ulverston printers Soulby & Thornley …
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# 18496
[BROADSIDE] Furness Curaissiers’ Races. On Friday the 15th of June, 1827.
At head: Knipe’s Correct List. Ulverston : Printed at the Office of W.R. Knipe, [1827]. Broadside, 230 x 125 mm, wood engraved recto only on wove paper, with a cartouche illustration of a horse racing scene; in good condition, with a light horizontal fold, and small perforation in the first line of text. Unrecorded Georgian …
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# 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. …
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# 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 …
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# 15584
RONALDS, Alfred
The fly-fisher’s entomology
Illustrated by coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect. And accompanied by a few observations and instructions relative to trout and grayling. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Third edition. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration in blind (rubbed), pages uncut and some unopened, pp x-115-32; illustrated with twenty colour …
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# 18386
FISHER, Bobby (1943 - 2008)
“I was tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse!”
Pasadena : Bobby Fisher, 1982. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp.14, fine. Together with : Chess Vol. 51, Nos. 999 – 1000, February 1987, and a newspaper clipping about Fisher, in original mailing envelope (presumably from Fisher) to Jean Pierre Fortin in London, Ontario. World chess champion Bobby Fisher’s account of being detained and tortured in Pasadena in …
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 17923
FUTSIAKA, Kato et al.
Police jiu-jitsu : also vital holds in wrestling, featuring Kato Futsiaka and Prof. Butch.
The science of “jiu-jitsu” as taught to the Law Enforcement bodies in the United States and throughout the world. Police, Marines “G” men, Soldiers, Sailors and members of the U.S. Coast Guard. Fifty-six illustrations by Seaman. New York : Book-A-Mag Co., Inc., 1940. Series: Easy Instructor. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (a little chipping at fore-edges …