b'1490901878 THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM TO ENGLAND & NORTH AMERICA: original albumen photograph, laid down on backing page with the names of The Australian Twelve printed below. Overall 11 x 17cm. (Framed & glazed, 36 x 31cm.).From May to September 1878, an Australian team made the inaugural first-class tour of England by a representative overseas side. In October, the Australians played additional matches in the USA & Canada on their return journey.The tour followed one made by an England team to Australia in 187677, during which the first matches retrospectively given Test match status were played. None of the 1878 matches had international status, nevertheless the tour proved to be such an outstanding financial and sporting success that the future of international cricket was assured.Fred Spofforth was the star performer of the team. $500750911879-1890 run of Willow Tan Wisden Reprints,1879 from a limited edition of 1000, 1880-84 & 1886-90all from a limited edition of 500, 1885 edition unnumbered. (12) $8001,20092SOUTH MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: 1879-80 Members Season Ticket, with sepia leather cover, gold embossing front and back, and attractive vignette of a batsman at the wicket. Numbered No.209 in manuscript for Mr. D.H. Fox and signed by S.Row the Hon. Sec$40050093A Country Cricket Match from a painting by John Reid, as a double-page spread in the July 12, 1879 edition of Harpers Weekly. [The original oil painting is in the Tate Britain]; overall 41 x55.5cm. Also, Sketches at the Eton and Harrow Cricket-Match by Harry Furniss, a double-page spread from the July 10, 1880 edition of The Illustrated London News, overall 40 x 56cm. (2 items). $8012094The Australian Cricketers at Kennington Oval, double-page from The Illustrated London News, 18, 1880, the top half of pp280-281; captioned within the borders of the sketch is The MatchLord Harris (Captn of English Team) Saving a 4; the lower half captioned The Finish shows the scene after England won the match by 5 wickets. 40.5 x 55cm. $8012095THE LANCASHIRE COUNTY ELEVEN c1881, early cabinet card photograph of the Lancashire team, standing and seated in rows, in cricket attire. Players featured include Hornby (Cpt), Lancashire, Steele, Royle, Watson, Hornby, Appleby & Briggs. $120150961886 W. P. SNYDER International Cricket Match on the Ground of the Germantown Club at Nicetown, Pennsylvania. full page engraving, hand-coloured; also, a range of engravings, etchings & photogravures, circa 1840s-90s, 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). .$30040097SOUTH MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: 1889-90 Membership Ticket, No.411 for A.J. Stodgett. Royal blue leather,with gold embossing.1889-90 was the first season to see the introduction of a programme of cricket Pennant Matches in Melbourne; representing the start of the modem era of club competition. The original competing teams were Carlton, East Melbourne, Essendon, Fitzroy, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, South Melbourne, University and Williamstown. Eight rounds of matches were played in the initial season. $40050098ARTHUR 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, widely rated as competingwith W. G. Grace for the accolade of best batsman of the 1880s. An opening batsman, Shrewsbury played for Nottinghamshire 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. 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. $120150'