24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 59
 

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Kearton (Richard & Cherry). British Birds' Nests, 1907, & approx. 70 others

Kearton (Richard & Cherry). British Birds' Nests [later edition], London: Cassell and Company, Limited, c.1907. 8vo, original cloth, plates, with a laid-in original pencil portrait of Cherry Kearton by Yorkshire naturalist John 'Jack' Armitage (1900-1996), dated 1928 and inscribed for Eric Hosking in 1985 on verso,
Seebohm (Henry). Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, 1st edition, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8vo, original cloth, 60 chromolithographic plates, front inner hinges reinforced (stitching between frontispiece and title-page cracked), frontispiece spotted,
Dresser (Henry Eeles). A Manual of Palaearctic Birds, 1st edition, London: by the author, 1902-3. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary cloth, frontispiece to each part,
Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species ... Forty-Ninth Thousand, London: John Murray, 1897. 8vo, original cloth,
Ogilvie (Fergus Menteith). Field Observations on British Birds, 1st edition, number 107 of 500 copies only, London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920. Tall 8vo, original quarter cloth (backstrip spotted),
and approximately 70 others similar, late-19th and early-20th century ornithology and natural history, original cloth bindings, including later editions of other Darwin titles (Descent of Man; The Expression of the Emotions), Thorburn, British Birds, New Edition, 1925 (4 volumes), Witherby, A Practical Handbook of British Birds, 1st edition, 1920 (3 volumes), other Kearton titles (including Our Bird Friends, Revised Edition, 1923, signed), works by Seton Gordon, and more, many with bookplate(s) of Eric Hosking, the lot sold as seen (qty: approx. 80 volumes in 4 cartons)

THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)

Freeman 451 (Darwin, Origin); Mullens & Swann pp. 518 (Seebohm), 180 (Dresser).

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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