Sport
A vintage photograph of the 'Adelaide Junior Football Club. Season 1887 & 8'
Adelaide, Stump & Co., [1888]. Very little information about the Adelaide Football Club's Junior team appears in the local press of the day. A contemporary article linking the two appears in the 'The Evening Journal' on Friday 20 March 1885: 'The annual meeting of the Adelaide Football Club was held..... More
A vintage photograph of the 'Inter-University Football. Adelaide v. Melbourne. Played on Melbourne Cricket Ground 1907. Adelaide Team'
Melbourne, The Sears Studio, 1907. The Adelaide University Football Club was formed in 1906. 'During the three years 1908-1910, the Club existed in name only and, except for the annual match against Melbourne University, did not compete at all. This put the Club at a disadvantage in these matches as..... More
More than a Game. History of the Western Province Cricket Board 1959-1991
Cape Town, Western Province Cricket Association, 2000. More
Champions. The Racing Record of Famous Thoroughbreds in Australia
Sydney, Tralca, 1980. More
![Item #56476 Australian Cricket Team. South African Tour, 1935-36 [cover title]. An official...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56476_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563424609)
Australian Cricket Team. South African Tour, 1935-36 [cover title]. An official Christmas card
The third page is inscribed ('To you both and Lin') and signed in ink by Bert Oldfield, wicket-keeper on the tour. The centre-spread makes a most attractive display item. More
An original photograph (140x160mm) mounted on a detached autograph album leaf (165x195mm), captioned in pencil '1st Test Team for Australia at Brisbane. Dec 1947'. The match was against India on 28-29 November and 1-4 December 1947; it was India's first tour of Australia. The team comprised Bradman (Captain), Brown, Hamence (12th man), Hassett, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack; the Manager is also in the group portrait
'The late withdrawal of key (Indian) players ... greatly weakened its side. The strength of Australian cricket at this time further unbalanced the contest, resulting in a 4-0 thrashing in the series' (Webster). This is hardly surprising, considering that ALL of the Australians in this particular team went on the..... More
An official Australian Board of Control for International Cricket autograph sheet for the Australian Team on Tour, 1968
The seventeen signatures are Lawry (Captain), Ian Chappell, Connolly, Cowper, Freeman, Gleeson, Hawke, Inverarity, Jarman, Joslin, Mallett, McKenzie, Renneberg, Redpath, Sheahan, Taber and Walters. Very slightly creased; a fine copy. More
An 'unofficial' autograph sheet (but on the gilt-embossed letterhead of the Australian Cricket Board) for an Australian Test Cricket team
There are eleven signatures in neat but random order: Border (Captain), Dodemaide, Dyer, Jones, Geoff Marsh, McDermott, Sleep, Peter Taylor, Veletta, Steve Waugh and Whitney. Very slightly creased; in excellent unfolded condition. More
A vintage group portrait of the South Australian squad for the 4th Australian National Football Carnival, held in Perth in August 1921
Adelaide, Dimond Studios, 150 Rundle Street, [1921]. The inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an interstate competition, was held in Melbourne in August 1908. 'It was known at the time as the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival because it was designed to commemorate 50 years of Australian rules football' (Wikipedia). The carnival..... More
Laws of the Australasian Game of Football as adopted by the Australasian Football Council
Adelaide, South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope), 1924. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play, such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game, according to the laws, is strong enough, there being no occasion for foulness of any..... More
A vintage photograph (captioned in the negative 'ARS. AFC | Stroud 27/4/18' and 'Photo | Comley'), featuring a team of rugby players wearing ARS-branded jerseys, with Australian servicemen in uniform behind them
We suggest the eighteen members of the squad come from the Aeroplane Repair Section of the Australian Flying Corps based at Leighterton. We purchased this photograph with a small group of aerial photographs of Leighterton Aerodrome, about which the Australian War Memorial has this to say: 'By 1917 the Australian..... More
The Centenary Test. Melbourne Cricket Ground March 1977
Melbourne, MCC Library, 2002. Signed by all four authors. More
Eighty Golfing Years. A History of North Adelaide Golf Club
North Adelaide, The Golf Club, 1985. Loosely inserted is a 165 × 215 mm photograph of Howard Cocks, 'the grand old man of North Adelaide Golf Club' (page 141). More
The Quest of the Trout
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd, 1926. A posthumous publication: the author 'died on the seventeenth of September, 1926, before this book had gone through the press; but it is written exactly as he left it, save that Part IV ['Where to Fish'] has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a...... More
A History of the Australian Grand Prix. Volume One. 1928-1939
Adelaide, Museum Publishing Co, 1981. More
Tibby Cotter. Fast Bowler, Larrikin, Anzac
Petersham, Walla Walla Press, 2012 (reprint)/ 2012. Initialled in ink by both authors. More
Arab Horses and the Crabbet Stud
Fort Collins, Caballus Publishers, 1973. One of 1500 copies. More
Irish Hunting
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More
![Item #127309 The Charm of Cricket. [Contained in] Adventure Stories for Boys ... 1949. Don BRADMAN](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127309_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638753604)
The Charm of Cricket. [Contained in] Adventure Stories for Boys ... 1949
Melbourne, OPC Quality Productions, March 1949. The book also contains several illustrated stories on Australian aviation before, during, and just after the Second World War. More
Images of Bradman. Rare and Famous Photographs of a Cricket Legend. With Special Inclusions from Sir Donald's Private Collection
Bowral, Allen and Kemsley/ Bradman Museum, 1994. Number 260 of the deluxe edition of 974 copies signed by Don Bradman. Loosely inserted is a sheetlet of ten Sir Donald Bradman stamps in Australia Post's Australian Legends series (still in the original packaging) and a copy of the Bradman Museum booklet..... More
Tench. How to Catch Them
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1956/ 1954. More
Recollections of the Murray Bridge Racing Club
Murray Bridge, The Author, 1989. More