b'13661879-80 Royal Oak Hotel Cricket Club medal awarded to W.Burke for Best Batting Average. $10020067AUSTRALIA in ENGLAND 1880: A full page steel engraving titled The Australian Cricketers from The Australasian Sketcher depicting the touring squad of 13 who visited England in 1880. The Australian cricket team in England in 1880 played nine first-class matches including one Test, which was the first ever played in England. They were captained by W.L. Murdoch and the team included Blackham, Bannerman, Spofforth. Although England won the only Test, with W.G. Grace making 152 in his first innings; Murdoch replied with 153 n.o. in his second. Overall 38 x 24cm. .$10015068The Australian Cricketers at Kennington Oval, double-page illustration published in The Illustrated London News,18, 1880, the top half of pp 280-281; captioned within the borders of the sketch is The MatchLord Harris (Captnof English Team) Saving a 4; the lower half captioned The Finish shows the scene after England won the matchby 5 wickets. 40.5 x 55cm. .$10015069THE LANCASHIRE COUNTY ELEVEN c1881, rare and early cabinet card photograph of the Lancashire team, standing and seated in rows, in cricket attire. Players featured include A.N. Hornby (Cpt), O.P Lancashire, A.G. Steele, V.P.F.A. Royle, A. Watson, A.N. Hornby, A. Appleby, J. Briggs. From a photograph by Mr. C. Voss Bark, of Clifton. $15020070THE YORKSHIRE ELEVEN IN 1885: original albumen photograph with fully printed details to the surround,laid down to original presentation paper backing, overall 10.5 x 15cm. The image depicts a side led by Louis Hall and featuring several players who represented England, including Ulyett, Bates, Emmett, Hunter and Lee. $20025071James Lillywhites Cricketers Annual for 1885, 1888, & 1889, original softbound editions, fair/good condition. (3).$140180.72THE OXFORD ELEVEN IN 1886: original albumen photograph with fully printed details to the surround, laid down to original presentation paper backing, overall 10.5 x 15cm. The image depicts a side led by H.V. Page. At their 22nd annual meeting, Oxford beat Cambridge by 133 runs.K.J. Key and W. Rashleigh put on 243 for the first wicket in Oxfords 2nd innings, scoring 143 and 107 respectively;no one else reached double figures and the innings ended at 304; in those pre-declaration days this collapse couldhave been deliberate. $150200731886 W. P. SNYDER International Cricket Match on the Ground of the Germantown Club at Nicetown, Pennsylvania. full page wood engraving, hand-coloured; accompanied by a range of engravings, etchings and photogravures, circa 1840s to 1890s, from various publications including The Illustrated London News, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, The Graphic, Harpers Weekly, The Illustrated Sydney News, etc. (15 different images; several full page). Some rarely seen. .$400500741887-88 Yarra Cricket Club medal awarded to N. Gordon for Best Batting Average. .$10020075England v Australia at the Wicket by Brumfitt & Kirby (Ilkley, Yorkshire 1887) with full statistical accounts, between 1862 and 1887, of every English team in Australia and every Australian team in England, including player averages;293pp softbound, good condition overall. $12016076 7976SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CRICKET ASSOCIATION (SACA): 1889-90 Membership fob for FULL MEMBER number 51. This was the first year that a medal or fob was introduced for members to enter the Adelaide Oval. $50060077ARTHUR SHREWSBURY: circa 1890 original albumen photograph, laid down on backing paper and titled in the lower margin. Overall 15 x 10.5cm.Shrewsbury (18561903) was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G. Grace for the accolade of best batsman of the 1880s. An opening batsman, Shrewsbury played his cricket for Nottinghamshire County and played 23 Test matches for England, captaining them in 7 games, with a record of won 5, lost 2. He was the last professional to be England captain until Len Hutton was chosen in 1952. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1890. He also organised the first British Isles rugby tour to Australasia in 1888. Shrewsbury topped the first-class batting averages seven times including in 1902, his final season. The following spring, incorrectly believing he had an incurable disease, he shot himself at his sisters home in Gedling, Nottinghamshire. $150200'