Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 706
Estimate: £1200/1800
Hammer: £2600
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1874. 11th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Pages checked, complete. From the collection of ‘Charles W.A. Oakeley’, light foxing to the first three pages and to the last three pages to the rear and page block otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of the ground at Canterbury. The ground was purchased by the county club from the 2nd Earl Sondes in 1896 and became Kent’s headquarters.

Back to top