24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 36
 

36

Harris (Moses). [The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects], 1794

Harris (Moses). [The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects; namely, Moths and Butterflies]. L'Aurélien: ou histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalènes et papillons anglois, London: J. Edwards, 1794. Folio (404 x 300 mm), 19th-century green half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with butterfly tools, marbled sides, all edges gilt, pp. 145 [5], text in English and French, hand-coloured engraved title-page (in French only, as issued), 45 hand-coloured engraved plates (including unnumbered diagrammatic plate), text and plates both watermarked J Whatman 1794, tissue-guards, spotting to endpapers, title-page slightly spotted and with ownership inscription abraded from top margin causing small hole, plate 35 with repair to top margin extending into plate number, short closed tear to fore margin of plate 37, light spots and marks to margins of a few other plates (qty: 1)

ESTC T163472; Lisney 234.

Third edition, first issue, rare: ESTC traces two copies only world-wide, at Bristol Central Library and the John Rylands Library. Manchester. The text was 'entirely reset with slight alterations'; the plates were printed from the same blocks as the first edition of 1766, albeit with the minor alterations to numbers 38 and 39 introduced for Lisney's second edition, third issue.

Sold for £4,200
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000


 

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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