24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking
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Cosway Binding. French Prints of the Eighteenth Century, 1908
Cosway Binding. French Prints of the Eighteenth Century, by Ralph Nevill, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. 8vo (213 x 135 mm), contemporary crushed blue-green morocco by Riviere & Son for Henry Sotheran Ltd, floral swags gilt to spine and covers, original oval watercolour miniature by C. B. Currie inset behind glass to front cover, all edges gilt, fore edges of boards lettered 'Cosway binding, invented by J. H. Stonehouse' in gilt, orange moiré silk doublures and endpapers, turn-ins ruled and decorated in gilt, rear endpaper hand-lettered 'Miniature, C. B. Currie' in gilt, with the half-title, photogravure frontispiece, 50 halftone plates, spine slightly sunned, front joint rubbed, a few small marks to front cover, tide-mark to free endpapers and to frontispiece (qty: 1)
With the original authentication leaf bound in before the half-title, reading: 'This is No. 953 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J. H. Stonehouse, with MIniatures on ivory by Miss Currie', signed by J. H. Stonehouse and C. B. Currie.
Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
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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