24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 181
 

181

Pope (Alexander). The Works, 1769, & numerous others

Pope (Alexander). The Works. In Nine Volumes, Complete. With his Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Dublin: G. Faulkner, and A. Bradley, 1769. 9 volumes, 12mo (170 x 95 mm), contemporary speckled calf, gilt rules, twin morocco labels, volume 2 rear joint partially cracked, marginal worming to volume 8, a good set,
Montagu (Mary Wortley). The Works, London: Richard Phillips, 1803. 5 volumes, 12mo (166 x 95 mm), contemporary straight-grain reddish-brown half roan, engraved portrait frontispiece, volume 5 title-page discarded (retaining half-title),
Dryden (John, translator). The Works of Virgil, translated into English Verse. A New Edition, London: J. Johnson [and others], 1806. 4 volumes, 12mo (148 x 90 mm), contemporary diced blue calf gilt, spines rubbed,
Hawthorne (Nathaniel). [The Works], London: Walter Scott, Limited, c.1890. 12 volumes in 6, small 8vo (152 x 98 mm), contemporary maroon half calf, gilt spines,
and approx. 20 others, mainly French literature, 18th and 19th century, small formats, in fine contemporary bindings, including La Fontaine, Contes, London, 1781 (2 volumes, contemporary mottled tan calf gilt), Florian, Gonzalve de Cordoue, Paris, 1823 (3 volumes, contemporary marbled sheep gilt), editions of Corneille, Regnard, Daudet, and similar, the lot not fully collated and sold as a collection of fine bindings (qty: 63)

Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat, though not marked as such.

ESTC T5449 (Pope: ten copies world-wide).

Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

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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