24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 168
 

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Eliot (George). Silas Marner, 1st edition, 1861, & 19 others similar

Eliot (George). Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 8vo (186 x 110 mm), contemporary blue half calf, bound without half-title and advertisements, together with 19 other works (not collated), including: Milton, Poetical Works, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1772 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines worn, joints cracking); Thomas Holcroft, The Road to Ruin. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden [and:] The Man of Ten Thousand [and:] Knave, or Not, 1792-96-98 (i.e. 3 works, 8vo, various bindings); Jean de Froissart, Chronicles, William Smith, 1839 (2 volumes in 4, 4to, c.1900 red half calf, chivalric motifs gilt to spines); Junius, Letters, 2nd edition, 1814 (3 volumes, 8vo, near-contemporary purple half calf; James Thomson, The Seasons, A. Millar, 1744 (8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed); Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge [and] The Old Curiosity Shop, 1861 (2 works, large 8vo, contemporary red half morocco); and similar, all leather-bound except John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1st edition, 1873 (8vo, original cloth), and Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (in original parts, 8 of 20) (qty: 26)

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

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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