24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 25
 

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Wilson (Charles William). Picturesque Palestine, c.1880, & 12 others on the Holy Land

Wilson (Charles William). Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, London: Virtue and Co., Limited, c.1880. 4 volumes, 4to (325 x 245 mm), contemporary green half morocco gilt, 42 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, 2 double-page lithographic maps,
Temple (Sir Richard). Palestine Illustrated, 1st edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1888. 4to (278 x 190 mm), later blue-green sheep gilt, 32 colour plates, 2 lithographic plates, 4 maps, occasional spotting,
[Monteith, James]. Two Months in Palestine, 2nd edition, London: Nisbet and Co., 1871. 8vo (187 x 115 mm), contemporary calf by Seton and Mackenzie, 4 wood-engraved plates, folding map, front joint cracked at head,
Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn). Sinai and Palestine in Connection with their History, London: John Murray, 1905. 8vo (210 x 130 mm), contemporary prize-binding of red calf gilt, 12 maps and plans,
and 10 others on the Holy Land, leather-bound (not collated), including Thomson, The Land and the Book, 2 copies, 1881 and 1905, Geikie, The Holy Land and the Bible, 1891, The Complete Works of ... Josephus, London: London Printing and Publishing Company, c.1880, Kitto, The Pictorial History of the Jews, 1843, and similar (qty: 17)

Sold for £550
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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