24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking

 
  Lot 15
 

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Bernucca (Francesco). Viaggio pittorico ai tre laghi ... c.1816-18

Bernucca (Francesco, publisher). [Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, Milan: Francesco Bernucca, c.1816-1818]. Oblong folio (248 x 320 mm), contemporary roan-backed boards (binding heavily worn), 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates mainly by Caroline Lose after Friedrich Lose (several by G. Zancon, L. Rados, G. Sasso or A. Biasioli after E. Adam, G. B. Bosio or G. Castellini), on wove paper (a few, e.g. 36, 'Pianello' and 54, 'Villa Passalacqua', watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'), many heightened in gum arabic, each with letterpress text-leaf (with post-horn watermarks), bound without title-page, plates not bound in numerical order, shallow damp-related paper-erosion to upper inner corners (never affecting images or text), variable damp-staining to lower margins of final 10 plates and text-leaves, a few instances of light marginal soiling elsewhere (qty: 1)

Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful, 1026; Brunet V 1168.

According to Brunet the work was first published in 1815, with 50 colour plates. The plates in this copy are numbered up to 56 (with 5, 17, 20, 24, 44, 45 absent). Most copies to have appeared for sale have been dated 1818 on the title-page, and though the catalogue notes for these have generally suggested that 60 plates are called for, the actual counts have invariably been fewer (Christie's 2002, 49 plates; Sotheby's 2004, 40; Bonhams 2015, 50, uncoloured), and the Bobins copy has 46 plates only.

Sold for £3,200
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking, 24th Nov, 2021

To include the Library, Pictures and Camera Collection of Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991). Eric Hosking is a name which will require little introduction for ornithology enthusiasts. The first professional bird photographer, he photographed over 1,800 species, and his pictures have appeared in some 1,000 books, including the popular New Naturalist series, of which he was photographic editor. To complement his library, Eric Hosking also built a fine collection of pictures by leading 20th century wildlife artists including Archibald Thorburn, Keith Shackleton and C. F. Tunnicliffe. The sale of his photographic equipment provides an unmissable opportunity to own a remarkable array of high-quality cameras, lenses and other apparatus by manufacturers including Contarex, Hasselblad and Zeiss, and will give skilled users the chance of recreating his photographic feats.

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