Sport
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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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# 28425
LITHGOW AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL CLUB
Tickets for an exhibition match of Australian Rules Football between Lithgow and East Sydney played on the Lithgow Recreation Ground on 30 August 1919, and for the after-match Smoke Social at the Lithgow Trades Hall.
Lithgow, NSW : George Gearside, printer, 1919. Two tickets in identical format 60 x 90 mm, printed on blue and pink card. The Exhibition Game ticket, authorised by Lithgow Australian Rules Football Club Secretary G. Elliot, has the original printed date of 23 August crossed out and amended to the following week; price of admission …
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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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# 28560
LONGHURST, Percy
Boxing.
London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1928]. Series: Warne’s “Recreation” Books. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original colour pictorial wrappers (light staining, upper wrapper with early owner’s name in ink, paper loss at spine ends), half-title with child’s gift inscription (1920s), pp 64, [2]; a few pages with underlining or corner bends, occasional spotting, otherwise …
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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 …
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# 28309
NEWSBOY (publisher)
Photographic portrait of champion Danish West Indian-Australian heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson – “The Black Prince” – in a fighting stance. New York, circa 1890.
New York, USA : Newsboy, [circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); mount with the publisher’s imprint and ’73. Peter Jackson’; the image has lost some contrast, and the mount has a water stain at left edge (not affecting the albumen print) and a chipped corner. A rare studio …
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# 28266
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1934-35
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1935. Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed green wrappers, 179 pp; contents clean, a fine copy.
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# 28264
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1928-29
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1929. Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed pale blue wrappers (front sunned and with a few light stains), 158 pp; contents clean. “The past season was a memorable one by reason of the visit of the English Team. All of the games against the visitors created the keenest interest and …
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# 28263
TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN CRICKET GROUND (MELBOURNE)
Crown Grant and Regulations of the Metropolitan Cricket Ground
Melbourne : Harston, Partridge & Co., 1931. Square duodecimo (120 x 100 mm), original printed khaki wrappers, staple bound; 28 pp; a fine copy. A list of the Trustees as at 12 August 1931 and incorporating the “Grant to Trustees of Melbourne Cricket Ground” (dated 1862), “Regulations for the Care, Protection, and Management of the …
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# 28262
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1897-98
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1898. Duodecimo (155 mm), original printed grey wrappers (heavily marked), 100 pp; light foxing to edges and endpapers, contents clean. Includes a full report on all activities, match reports, averages, a complete list of members, etc.
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# 28259
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1943-44
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1944. Duodecimo (155 mm), original printed grey wrappers (sunned, chipped at front top corner), staple bound, 28 pp; contents clean. A very slender wartime edition in which several mentions are made of the fact that activities and income have been severely curtailed because of “the occupation of the Ground …