24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking
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Craig (Sir Thomas). Scotland's Soveraignty Asserted, 1st edition, 1695, & 7 others
Craig (Sir Thomas). Scotland's Soveraignty Asserted ... Translated from the Latin Manuscript ... by Geo. Ridpath, 1st edition, London: printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1695. 8vo (180 x 105 mm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf, rubbed, title-page laid down, bound without pi2 (probably an advertisement leaf as in the variant imprint), leaves F3-4 transposed, 2E3 misbound after 2E5, together with:
Foulis Press. Le Siège de Calais, tragédie. Par M. de Belloy. Représentée pour la première fois par les comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 13 février 1765, 1st Foulis edition, Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1765. Small 8vo (156 x 90 mm), contemporary calf, advertisement leaf to rear, rear blank and free endpaper working loose,
and 6 other works (not collated), including Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, Dublin, 1781 (2 volumes, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked), Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... 6th edition, London, 1783 (4 volumes, contemporary calf, covers detached, engraved plates, book-labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, c.1765-1821), D. J. Thomson Gray, The Dogs of Scotland, 1st edition, Dundee, 1891 (original cloth), and similar (qty: 13)
ESTC R228219 (Craig: seven copies in UK libraries), T174176 (Foulis Press, rare: six copies in libraries world-wide).
Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £150
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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