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.
Lot 1 - American Civil War. Atlas to accompany the Official Records, 1891-5
Sold for £500
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 2 - Bertius (Petrus). Three Ptolemaic maps, 1618-19, & 9 others
Sold for £400
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 3 - Blaeu (Willem Janszoon). Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia, c.1636
Sold for £80
Estimated at £50 - £100
Lot 4 - Braun (George, & Franz Hogenberg). Edenburgum [Edinburgh], c.1600
Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 5 - British Isles. Collection of 17 engraved maps, 17th-19th century
Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 6 - British Isles. Collection of engraved maps, 18th-19th century
Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 7 - Camden (William). The Abridgment of Camden's Britannia, London: John Bill, 1626
Sold for £5,200
Estimated at £2,500 - £3,500
Lot 10 - Speed (John). York Shire, 1611 or later, & 5 other maps
Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 11 - American Civil War. Collection of memoirs, biographies and letters
Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 12 - American Civil War. Collection of regimental and other histories
Sold for £350
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 13 - American Civil War. Collection of modern reference books
Sold for £140
Estimated at £70 - £100
Lot 15 - Bernucca (Francesco). Viaggio pittorico ai tre laghi ... c.1816-18
Sold for £3,200
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 16 - Egypt. Three photograph albums of RAF service in Egypt, c.1937-8
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £200
Lot 19 - Holy Land. Large collection of travel accounts, 19th-20th century
Sold for £500
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 20 - India. 'Views of Benares from the River Side, c.1920-30
Sold for £650
Estimated at £50 - £100
Lot 21 - Keate (George). An Account of the Pelew Islands, 1st edition, 1788, & 7 others, travel
Sold for £450
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 22 - Littler (Sir John Hunter, 1783-1856). Diaries of Sea Voyages, 1824-6, original manuscript
Sold for £3,500
Estimated at £500 - £800
Lot 23 - Near East. Album of photographs, c.1920, and others similar
Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 24 - Prescott (William H.). [The Works], 1848-67, & others similar
Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 25 - Wilson (Charles William). Picturesque Palestine, c.1880, & 12 others on the Holy Land
Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 27 - Kendall (Percy Fry, & Herbert E. Wroot). Geology of Yorkshire, 1924, & 20 others
Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 28 - Mining. North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. Transactions, 18 volumes, 1856-1902
Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 29 - Noble (Mark). Two Dissertations upon the Mint … of Durham, 1st edition, 1780, & 30 others
Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 31 - Rauthmell (Richard). Antiquitates Bremetonacenses, 1st edition, 1746, & others
Sold for £380
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 32 - Richardson (Joseph). Furness Past and Present, 1st edition, 1880, & 15 others
Sold for £500
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 33 - Walker (George). The Costume of Yorkshire, 2nd edition, 1885, one of 500 copies
Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 34 - Whitaker (T. D.). An History of Whalley, 2nd edition, 1806, & 3 others
Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 35 - Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History of Craven, 3rd edition, 1878, & 11 others
Sold for £150
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 36 - Harris (Moses). [The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects], 1794
Sold for £4,200
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 37 - Worlidge (John). Systema Horti-culturae, 1st edition, 1677
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 38 - Livestock print. The Durham Ox, 1802, stipple-engraving in colours
Sold for £450
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 39 - Allouse (Bashir E.). Birds of Iraq, 1st edition, 1960-2, & 6 others
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 40 - Alpheraky (Sergius). The Geese of Europe and Asia, 1905, & 6 others
Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 41 - Archer (Geoffrey). The Birds of British Somaliland, 1st edition, 1937-61, & 11 others
Sold for £450
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 42 - Attenborough (David). The Trials of Life, 1990, inscribed to Eric Hosking, & 13 other works
Sold for £750
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 43 - Bannerman (David). The Birds of Tropical West Africa, 1st edition, 1930-51, & 2 others
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 44 - Booth (Edward Thomas). Rough Notes on Birds, 1st edition, 1881-7, & 3 others
Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 45 - Butler (Arthur G.). Foreign Finches in Captivity, 1st edition, 1894
Sold for £850
Estimated at £500 - £800
Lot 46 - Chapman (Abel). [Collection of works including Savage Sudan], 1st editions, 1893-30
Sold for £600
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 47 - English (Douglas, editor). Wild Life. An Illustrated Monthly, 1913-17, & others
Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 48 - Forshaw (Joseph M.). Parrots of the World, 1st edition, 1973, & 11 others
Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 50 - Godman (Frederick Du Cane). A Monograph of the Petrels, 1st edition, 1907-10
Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
Lot 51 - Greene (William Thomas). Parrots in Captivity, 1st edition, 1884-7
Sold for £950
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 52 - Grimble (Augustus). Deer-Stalking, 1901, & 12 others similar
Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 53 - Hachisuka (Masauji). The Birds of the Philippine Islands, 1st edition, 1931-5, & others
Sold for £850
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 54 - Hachisuka (Masauji). The Dodo and Kindred Birds, 1st edition, 1953, one of 485 copies
Sold for £650
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 55 - Harrison (J. C.). The Birds of Prey of the British Islands, 1980, & 11 others similar
Sold for £380
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 56 - Harvie-Brown (J. A.). [A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, part set, 1888-1935
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 57 - Hewitson (William C.). Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, 1846
Sold for £600
Estimated at £150 - £200
Lot 58 - Howard (H. Eliot). The British Warblers, 1st edition, 1907-14, & 3 others
Sold for £950
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 59 - Kearton (Richard & Cherry). British Birds' Nests, 1907, & approx. 70 others
Sold for £500
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 60 - Lee (Oswin A. J.). Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, 1st edition, 1897-9
Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 61 - Legge (W. Vincent). A History of the Birds of Ceylon, 1st edition, 1880
Sold for £3,500
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Lot 62 - Lockley (Ronald M., 1903-2000). A collection his works, 1942-83, all signed by the author
Sold for £380
Estimated at £70 - £100
Lot 64 - Meinertzhagen (Richard). Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, & 4 others, 1st editions, 1930-59
Sold for £480
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 66 - Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 1st edition, 1889-95, & 18 others
Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 67 - New Naturalist Monographs. Eric Hosking's personal complete set, 1st editions, 1948-71
Sold for £3,000
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
Lot 68 - New Naturalists, numbers 1-25, 1st editions, 1945-51
Sold for £800
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 69 - New Naturalists, numbers 26-50, 1st editions, 1953-67
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 70 - New Naturalists, numbers 51-69, 1st editions, 1971-81
Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 71 - New Naturalists, numbers 72-4 & 76, 1st editions, 1986-90
Sold for £500
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 72 - New Naturalists, numbers 75 & 77-83, 1st editions, 1992-2005
Sold for £700
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 73 - New Naturalists, numbers 84-99, 1st editions, 1999-2006
Sold for £500
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 74 - New Naturalists. Numbers 100-122 & 134, 1st editions, 2006-17
Sold for £800
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 75 - New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney & British Warblers, 1st editions, 1985
Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
Lot 76 - Peterson (Roger Tory). A collection of his books inscribed to Eric Hosking, c.1950-60
Sold for £600
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 78 - Poyser (T & A D, publishers). Group of Poyser ornithology guides, 1975-97
Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 79 - Scott (Sir Peter). Wild Chorus, 1939, inscribed for Eric Hosking, & other works by Scott
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 80 - Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, 1st edition, 1883-5
Sold for £320
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 81 - Shelley (George Ernest). A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, 1st edition, 1872
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 82 - Swann (H. Kirke). A Monograph of the Birds of Prey, 1st edition, 1924-45, one of 412 copies
Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 84 - Walpole-Bond (John). A History of Sussex Birds, 1938, & 31 other local avifaunas
Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 85 - Walpole-Bond (John). Field Studies of some Rare British Birds, 1914, & approx. 50 others
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 86 - Witherby (H. F., & others, editors). British Birds, 112 volumes, 1907-2019
Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 87 - Eric Hosking Library. Collection of modern ornithology titles inscribed to Eric Hosking
Sold for £480
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 88 - Eric Hosking Library. Collection of 20 ornithology field guides inscribed to Eric Hosking
Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 89 - Eric Hosking Library. Large collection of ornithology field guides
Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 90 - Eric Hosking Library. Large collection of modern ornithology reference (28 boxes)
Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 91 - Archibald Thorburn FZS (1860-1935) Sketch of a falcon, with 2 others similar
Sold for £350
Estimated at £120 - £180
Lot 92 - Archibald Thorburn FZS (1860-1935) Study of Melodious Warbler and Great Reed Warbler
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 93 - Archibald Thorburn FZS (1860-1935). "Lammergeier, Spain", signed watercolour
Sold for £2,500
Estimated at £500 - £800
Lot 94 - Bruce Henry SWLA (1918-2011). "Fun on the Leck", signed watercolour
Sold for £400
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 95 - Bruce Henry SWLA (1918-2011). Peregrine falcon on a rocky outcrop, signed watercolour
Sold for £800
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 96 - Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939). Eagle owl at rest on a rock
Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300