24th Nov, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

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

 
  Lot 77
 

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Philip (Duke of Edinburgh, Prince). Birds from Britannia, 1962, signed, with a signed photograph

Philip (Duke of Edinburgh, Prince, 1921-2021). Birds from Britannia, 1st edition, London: Longmans, 1962. Large 8vo, original blue boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, halftone photographic plates, signed by the author 'Philip, Hilbre, 1965' on the title-page, bookplate of Eric Hosking, laid-in photograph of Prince Philip by Eric Hosking (gelatin silver print, 217 x 165 mm; Eric Hosking's wetstamp verso), together with a large-format gelatin silver print of one of Philip's own photographs, 475 x 390 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with printed caption 'Wandering Albatross' and Prince Philip's autograph signature 'Philip' in black ink to mount, bookplate of Eric Hosking and pencil annotation 'Photography by Prince Philip' on backboard (qty: 2)

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

Philip made a number of visits to Hilbre Island in the Dee Estuary as part of Eric Hosking's annual bird-watching party, and wrote the foreword to Hosking's autobiography An Eye for a Bird (1970), in which he remarked that 'no one could be kinder or more encouraging to beginners and to the amateur'. The accompanying large-format photograph of the 'Wandering Albatross' would have been taken by Philip on one of the Britannia voyages described in Birds from Britannia (1956 or 1959), but a different photograph is used to depict the species in the book.

Sold for £500
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

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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