24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking
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Fergusson (W. N.). Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes, 1st edition, 1911, & others
Fergusson (W. N.). Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes, 1st edition, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1911. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth, half-title, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 2 lithographic folding maps, halftone illustrations from photographs throughout the text (many full-page), small mark to spine, a good copy, together with 7 others (not fully collated), including: Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable, 1897 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, extremities rubbed, spines rolled, spotting to early leaves); Wilfred Thesiger, Among the Mountains, 1st edition, 1998 (4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by the author on plate mounted to title-page); Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way, 1st edition, 1913 (8vo, original green cloth gilt); Frieda Lawrence, "Not I, But The Wind ...", 1st edition, 1934 (8vo, original quarter buckram, signed by the author on the half-title verso); and similar (qty: 9)
Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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