24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking
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Holy Land. Large collection of travel accounts, 19th-20th century
Holy Land. Large collection of travel accounts, 19th-20th century, including:
1) Tristram (H. B.). The Land of Israel; a Journal of Travels in Palestine, 1st edition, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1865. 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 4 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece, 8 wood-engraved plates, 2 folding maps, bookplate (Charles H. Lardner Woodd), fraying to spine-ends, spotting to plates,
2) Sandie (George). Horeb and Jerusalem, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1864. 8vo, original cloth (rebacked and relined), half-title, 9 lithographic plates, maps and plans (one folding; several in colour), advertisement leaf, frontispiece trimmed and mounted, title-page spotted, pencilled marginalia,
3) The Holy Land. Painted by John Fulleylove, R.I., described by John Kelman, 1st edition, one of 500 deluxe copies signed by the publishers, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902. 4to, original cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 92 colour plates,
and approx. 60 others (not collated), including: Samuel Manning, "Those Holy Fields": Palestine, illustrated by Pen and Pencil, London: Religious Tract Society, c.1870 (4to, original pictorial cloth gilt); L. Valentine, Palestine Past and Present, Pictorial and Description, London: Fredwick Warne & Co., c.1880 (4to, original pictorial cloth gilt); William M. Thomson, The Land and the Book ... Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881 (4to, original pictorial cloth gilt); and similar, including a few miscellaneous (not Holy Land-related), and several Baedeker guides (qty: 5 cartons)
Sold for £500
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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