Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 120 - $ 180
(BASEBALL--19TH CENTURY.) "Uncle John." The Boy's Book of Sports and Games. 7 plates. 16mo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; intermittent foxing; signature of an Illinois boy on front pastedown. New York: Appleton, 1852

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Appears to be an English work, but was first published in New York in 1848. Does not give the rules for baseball per se, but a page is devoted to rounders. Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 210.