Sport
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# 31081
PARKER BROTHERS
[AVIATION] Lindy : the new flying game
A Sequel to the Famous Parker game TOURING. Price 75 cents. Improved edition. [Title on box lid]. Salem, Massachusetts : Parker Brothers, Inc., [1927]. An air race game played with cards. Box of thick card, 140 x 100 x 25 mm, pictorial lid and sides (rubbed, mild wear at corners), containing 99 playing cards (as called …
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# 30672
PATERSON BROTHERS
[CRICKET] Outdoor photograph of a group of Melbourne schoolboys and their female tutors, Melbourne, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); verso of mount imprinted ‘Paterson, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The Paterson Brothers studio was located at 8 Bourke Street East from 1862-1873. Based on the fashion and hairstyles of the three women pictured, this …
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# 32434
BURMAN, William J.
A pair of studio portraits of Frederick Cavill, “professor of swimming”. Taken in Melbourne, probably in February 1879 around the time of his River Yarra endurance swim.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 102 x 66 mm (mounts), versos imprinted in gilt ‘From Burman’s Photographic Rooms, 209 Bourke St. East, near Parliament Houses, and St. Georges Hall, next Theatre Royal Melbourne’; both prints and mounts are in fine condition. Two rare photographic portraits of Frederick Cavill (1839-1927), the most important …
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# 32630
MELBOURNE AMATEUR SUNDAY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
[AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL] Melbourne Amateur Sunday Football Association. Season 1960.
Fixtures / Office-bearers / Constitution / Rules / Club Secretaries and Grounds / League Rules / Open Age. [Drop title]. Melbourne : Printed by The Wellworth Press, [1960]. Duodecimo (154 x 100 mm), printed grey-blue wrappers, stapled, 24 pp, including advertisements; a very good copy. This amateur league featured teams – most if not all …
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# 32635
STRAHAN, F. L. (Secretary)
[AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL] Saturday Morning Football League. Rules and fixtures. Season 1950.
Preston, Vic. : The Wellworth Press, 1950. Duodecimo (140 x 92 mm), printed buff wrappers (short tear front bottom edge), lower wrapper with advertisement for Tintara wines, staple bound, 40 pp; a good copy. This amateur Australian Rules Football league comprised 17 teams representing some of Melbourne’s largest and most iconic companies and corporations, including …
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# 32632
MELBOURNE AMATEUR SUNDAY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
[AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL] Melbourne Amateur Sunday Football Association. Season 1957.
Fixtures / Office-bearers / Constitution / Rules / Club Secretaries and Grounds / League Rules / Open Age. [Drop title]. Melbourne : Printed by The Wellworth Press, [1957]. Duodecimo (154 x 100 mm), printed buff wrappers, stapled, 24 pp, including advertisements; a few pen annotations to front wrapper and fixtures section, else a good copy. …
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# 32631
MELBOURNE AMATEUR SUNDAY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
[AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL] Melbourne Amateur Sunday Football Association. Season 1959.
Fixtures / Office-bearers / Constitution / Rules / Club Secretaries and Grounds / League Rules / Open Age. [Drop title]. Melbourne : Printed by The Wellworth Press, [1959]. Duodecimo (154 x 100 mm), printed blue wrappers, stapled, 24 pp, including advertisements; a very good copy. This amateur league featured teams – most if not all …
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# 32266
ELLIS, Rennie
Cup Fever. Rennie Ellis at the Melbourne Cup
Melbourne : Lothian, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, extensively illustrated with Ellis’ photographs of the ‘race that stops a nation’ at the height of 80s glamour.
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# 31750
MARTINDALE, F. W.
[CRICKET]. Alice in Holidayland.
A parody in prose, verse and picture. Perpetrated with apologies to the immortal originals of Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel. Pictures by Frank H. Mason and Noel Pocock. Second edition. Leeds: Chorley & Pickersgill, n.d. [c. 1920]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cards (marked, soiled, a couple of small pen marks and tears along the spine), pp. …
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# 31151
[PHAR LAP]
Phar lap
[Melbourne? : National Museum? circa 1935]. Colour photographic print, presumably issued separately as a souvenir, 205 x 255 mm, light handling crease. ‘Winner of the Melbourne Cup and £66,738 in total prize money. By Night Raid, from Entreaty. Foaled 1926, died 1932. Exhibited in the National Museum, Melbourne’ – captioned below.
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# 30035
LAVERTY, Colin
Frederick Woodhouse and sons. Australian Colonial Sporting Painters (deluxe edition)
Sydney: The David Ell Press, 1980. Oblong quarto, bgilt-lettered leather binding in cloth slipcase, all edges gilt, 107pp, uillustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper. The deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies signed and numbered by the author and publisher, on a label which has offset the page, as usual. A major work on the famous …
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# 31069
JONES, Henry
Studio portrait of a mother and her young children, one of whom holds a cricket bat. Adelaide, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm, verso with pictorial back mark in mauve worded ‘Henry Jones, Artist Photographer (Late Operator at Mr. Duryea’s) Opposite White’s Rooms, King William Street, Adelaide’; the print and mount are in very good condition.
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# 30281
Photographer unknown.
Three photographs of Wesley College, Melbourne, taken in 1904: the school’s champion Australian Rules Football team; view of the main building; view looking across the school oval.
Three sepia tone gelatin silver photographs, each 70 x 90 mm, printed on Kodak postcard stock (89 x 138 mm), all mailed from Melbourne and addressed to Master Norman Hart in Launceston, Tasmania (postmarks dated 28 June 1904; 19 September 1904; 14 November 1904), the fronts with handwritten messages signed W. H. (William Hart?) which …
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# 28494
ALSAGOFF, Syed Mohsen
The Alsagoff family in Malaysia : A.H. 1240 (A.D. 1824)-A.H. 1382 (A.D. 1962) : with biographical and contemporary sketches of some members of the Alsagoff family. (Presentation copy)
Singapore : The Author, [1963]. Quarto (265 mm), illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, upper wrapper chipped at head of spine and creased at top corner), staple bound; presentation inscription to title ‘With compliments from Dato A. M. Alsagoff 24/4/63‘; pp 50, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally very clean and sound. This well-illustrated publication relates the …
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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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# 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 …