24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 175
 

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Homer. Ilias kai Odysseia [graece], 1st Grenville edition, 1800-1, & 23 other works

Homer. Ilias kai Odysseia [graece], 1st Grenville edition, Oxford: ex ergasteriou typographikou akademias, [1800-1]. 4 volumes in 2, small 4to (186 x 140 mm), later half calf, rebacked, pp. [6] 396, [4] 421 [1], [2] 328, [4] 314 88, ecclesiastical ink-stamps to title-pages, bookplates (Revd Edward Feilde) reimposed,
Freeman (Rowland). Kentish Poets, 1st edition, Canterbury: G. Wood, 1821. 2 volumes, 12mo (175 x 100 mm), contemporary half calf, rebacked, pp. [6] xix 371, [2] 432, title-pages, spotted,
Southey (Robert). Poems, 2nd edition, Bristol: N. Biggs for Joseph Cottle, 1797. 8vo (155 x 93 mm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, advertisement leaf, section excised from head of title-page, marginal nick to B1, a few stains,
and 21 other works, 18th and 19th-century literature, classics and theology in modern leather or rebacked contemporary bindings (not collated), including Henry Fielding, The Works, 5th edition, Edinburgh, 1771 (12 volumes), Laurence Sterne, The Works, 1819 (4 volumes), Peter Pindar, The Works, 1812 (5 volumes), Rollin, The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians [etc.], 9th edition, 1800 (10 volumes), Bible (Cambridge: John Burges, 1796-8, 2 volumes), and similar (qty: 60)

Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat (a few works with his armorial bookplate).

ESTC T90249 (Homer), T139938 (Southey).

Sold for £420
Estimated at £300 - £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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