b'30151A presentation cricket ball with a silver shield affixed and engraved PRESENTED TO W.G. HOLIDAY FOR PERFORMING THE HAT TRICK - SEASON 1899; together with a mid-19th Century 2-part brown leather cricket ball with hand-sewn seam. (2 items).Provenance: Bonhams, Chester, 18th October 2006, Lot 75. .$300500152152Tit-Bits about Play and Players. Monster Cricket Book. Batting & Bowling Averages, Fixtures etc. Printed by George Newnes Limited of the Strand, London 1899. 80pp. Bound in green cloth for John Arlott, gilt title to spine, with original wrappers retained. Contents include details of the 1898 season, Hawkes team in South Africa, Australians preparation for the 1899 tour, etc., with frontispiece cameo illustrations of the Australian players. Bought by A.E. Winder from Arlott in 1979 with Winders bookplate to inside front cover. Padwick 933. Minor foxing and age toning to pages, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. .$200300153153AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM IN ENGLAND, 1899: An original team photograph by J. Herbert Wilson of Market Street, Leicester; with the title Australian Cricket Team 1899 in the plate, and the players names printed on the mount, window mounted. Overall 24.5 x 29.5cm.The Australian cricket team in England in 1899 played 35 first-class matches including five Tests, the first time that a series in England had consisted of more than three matches. Australia won the Test series 1-0, with four matches drawn. The First Test at Trent Bridge saw W.G. Grace make his final appearance for England, while Wilfred Rhodes made his Test debut in the same match. .$500750154CRICKET BOOKS: W.G. - Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections by W.G. Grace [James Bowden, 1899]; The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace [Constable, 1919]; The M.C.C. 1787 - 1937 [The Times, 1937]; Australian Batsmen from Charles Bannerman to Neil Harvey by Moyes [1954, Angus & Robertson]; and, The Greatest Test of All by Fingleton [Collins, 1962]. (5 vols., all hardcover). . $100150'