18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2125
Cricket
Lillywhite (John), John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion .... for 1866 to 1885, twenty volumes bound as seventeen, 1866 to 1869 and 1871 to 1875 in original wraps, 1870 and 1876 to 1880 in half calf, 1881 to 1884 bound as one in half morocco, 1885 in cloth (generally worn, 1867 and 1875 covers loose, 1869 lacks rear cover);
Nottingham, Spybey's Annual Register of Nottinghamshire Cricket Matches, Season 1884, second edition, original boards (worn);
Kent, Twenty Years of Kent Cricket: The Full Scores of all the Matches played by Kent from 1879 to 1898, F.E. Marshall, no date, MCC stamp inside front cover, well worn wraps;
Surrey, Holmes (R.S.), Surrey Cricket and Cricketers 1773 to 1895, 'Cricket', 1896, MCC stamp inside front cover, original wraps;
with four others (24)
Sold for £650
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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