Sport
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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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# 18430
AUSTRAL STUDIO
[MELBOURNE] Wesley College cricket team, 1904.
Photographic print on celluloid (?), 200 x 240 mm, laid down on original board, verso with wet stamp of ‘Austral Studio, Douglas Parade, N. Williamstown’, and contemporary pencilled inscription ‘Wesley Cricket Team, 1904’; the print with creasing and faint foxing and sunning at top edge; verso of mount with water stains and foxing. Presumably this …
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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 …
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# 17103
CURR, Edward M. (Micklethwaite)
Pure saddle-horses, and how to breed them in Australia.
Together with a consideration of the history and merits of the English, Arab, Andalusian, & Australian breeds of horses. Melbourne : Wilson and Mackinnon, 1863. First edition. Octavo, original quarter morocco over pebbled cloth (boards with light stains, spine heavily faded and with small loss at head and tail), a presentation copy inscribed on the …
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# 17169
HIBBINS, Gillian
Sport and racing in colonial Melbourne : the cousins and me: Colden Harrison, Tom Wills and William Hammersley
Melbourne : Lynedoch, 2007. Edition limited to 500 copies; this copy is unnumbered and signed by the author on the half title. Octavo, gilt lettered brown cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket, 485 pp, illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates; a fine copy.
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# 17197
"CAVENDISH"
[PLAYING CARDS] Patience games
/ with examples played through. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. London : Thos. De La Rue & Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong quarto, original blind blocked tan cloth (bright and unrubbed), upper board and spine lettered in gilt, lower board with publisher’s device in gilt, all edges gilt, pp 216, [8] publisher’s advertisements, illustrated; contents fresh, …
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# 17356
RUSSELL, Archer
Sunlit trails : a bird-watcher’s tramps and camps in Australia
Sydney: Building Limited, 1930. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, pp 112.
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# 17325
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 (a little soiled), illustrated throughout. Featuring a delightful Australian plate of a kangaroo and …
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# 16637
NOBLE, Timothy
Photographic portrait of the great aerialist Charles Blondin, Melbourne, 1874
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of ‘T. Noble, Artist Photographer, 135 Bourke St. East, four doors from Russell St., Melbourne’; the albumen print a little pale and lightly rubbed, the mount in fine condition. The celebrated nineteenth century French tightrope walker and aerial acrobat Charles Blondin …