Sport

# 19619

CAMERON, A.R. and SHARP, Bruce (editors)

The science of wrestling : complete course 130 illustrations

Cover: “25 full page photographs specially posed by wrestlers under contract to Stadiums Ltd.”. Sydney : Scotow Press, for Withrow Physical Culture School, [c.1930]. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 64, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and line drawings in the text; a very good copy. The publication date must be between late …

# 19625

BARNA, Victor

Table tennis.

Cover: “How to play the game / Laws of table tennis”. Melbourne : Australian Table Tennis Association, [cc.1955]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 31, [1], b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia).

# 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 …

# 19316

GRIFFITHS, Samuel (1864 - 1937)

Turf and heath. Australian racing reminiscences

Melbourne : A. H. Massina & Co., 1906. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine sunned), pp. xii; 262, eight black and white photographic plates, internally very clean, related news clippings on the author’s death loosely enclosed. Samuel Griffiths, thoroughbred owner, rider, trainer, stipendiary stewart, sporting journalist, and handicapper in India as well as to the Victoria Amateur …

# 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 …

# 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 …

# 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. …