Sport

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 44480

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [HORSE RACING] Steeple-chase

    Melbourne : National Game Co., [between 1920 and 1930]. “Copyright no. 2013”. Game board, 370 x 370 mm, folding, recto with colour-printed design, split along spine, cloth repair to spine, outer side with publisher’s pictorial label titled ‘The Race Game’.

  • # 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 …

  • # 43577

    Karla DICKENS, BLAK DOUGLAS et al.

    Shadow boxer

    Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240170 mm), pictorial card covers printed in black on silver (lightly rubbed); pp. 72, illustrated in colour and b/w; texts by the exhibiting artists as well as Wesley Enoch and Keri Glastonbury; an as new copy. Superbly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibition Shadow Boxer, …

  • # 43225

    TEBBUTT, R. E. & HILL, L. G. (eds.)

    The Falcon : magazine of the North Sydney Boys’ High School. Vol. 4, no. 2. June, 1918.

    Crows Nest, NSW : Charles Dunn, printer (for NSBHS), 1918. Octavo, decorative wrappers in the school colours, lower wrapper with advertisement for Miller Street furnishing firm Gourlay Bros. (light crease to lower wrapper and last couple of leaves); pp. 36, photographically illustrated; includes staff list, editorial, obituaries, class reports, student poetry and articles, debating and …

  • # 43144

    'BULLWORKER"

    Muscles make a man

    Middlesex, NJ : Margrave Corporation, circa 1970. Mail order catalogue, quarto, pp. [12] with order card, illustrated in colour. Illustrated catalogued for the ‘Bullworker’ isometric exercise device. ‘Burst out of your shell and be a REAL man’. ‘5 minutes a day must get you in MANSHAPE’.  ‘Bullworker is a product and fitness company that specializes …

  • # 42514

    San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.

    [GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

    San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …

  • # 42773

    WIGRAM, R.H.

    Trout and fly in Tasmania

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, green cloth boards, pp 94; edges foxed, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated with seven photographic plates. Scarce. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was a keen angler at an early age. He was known for his innovative fly designs as well as authoring a wide …

  • # 41553

    TUTTLE & CO.

    Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, circa 1884.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …

  • # 40132

    B. K. ÉDITIONS [BLOCK, Adolphe]

    [EROTICA] Nos Mondaines. Une Bicycliste. Vues pour le stéréoscope.

    [Title from box lid]. Paris : B. K. Éditions [Adolphe Block], [ca. 1900]. Publisher’s carton box, 185 x 95 x 20 mm, the hinged lid with lithographic title label including publisher’s imprint lower left, containing the complete set of six hand-coloured tissue stereoscopic albumen print photographs entitled ‘Une Bicycliste’, from the series ‘Nos Mondaines’, in their …

  • # 41392

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    Sepia-toned gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on its original board mount with decorative lithographic border; verso with an inscription in fountain pen in a later hand headed ‘Pukeuri Cricket Team’ and identifying the XI by name (plus two others); the print has beautiful tones and excellent clarity, and is in …

  • # 41279

    [ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,

    and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …