Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 1st edition, Edinbugh: David Douglas, 1889-95. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, folding map, 10 plates, 2 plans, bindings slightly rubbed, bumped and marked,
Saxby (Henry L.). The Birds of Shetland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1874. 8vo, original cloth, gilt vignette to front board, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, a few bumps and pale marks to bindings,
Harting (James Edmund). The Birds of Middlesex, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1866. Large 12mo, original cloth (rubbed, loss to head of spine, wear to foot of rear joint), tinted lithographic frontispiece, laid-in autograph letter signed from the author to D. Best of Strawberry Hill, 1898 (4 pp., on natural history societies near London), ownership inscription effaced from front free endpaper,
Coward (Thomas Alfred). The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1910. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, all plates as called for, folding map (backed on linen), with laid-in offprint, The Mammalian Fauna of Cheshire. Reprinted from 'The Zoologist' for May-July, 1895, inscribed 'With the writers' compliments' on front wrapper,
and 15 others, county and local avifaunas, late-19th and early-20th century, original cloth (not collated), including Nelson, The Birds of Yorkshire, 1st edition, 1907, Macpherson, A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, 1st edition, 1892, Ticehurst, A History of the Birds of Kent, 1st edition, 1909, Bucknill, The Birds of Surrey, 1st edition, 1900, and similar, nearly all items in lot with bookplate of Eric Hosking (qty: 22)

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

Mullens & Swann pp. 426 (Muirhead), 510-11 (Saxby), 273 (Harting), 152 (Coward).