A HAND-BOOK TO THE BRITISH MAMMALIA [Association Set from the Library of Eric Hosking] Lloyd's Natural History.
by Lydekker, Richard
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. From the library of Eric Hosking. Original cloth binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, some tissue guards marked, endpapers a little toned, numerous chromolithographic plates unmarked, a few spots to the text and fore-edges, a plate belonging to Eric Hosking on the pastedown, no inscriptions. A very good copy with wonderful illustrations. [From the library of Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales, the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird", 1970. Over his exceptionally long career 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. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist.].
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- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035961
- Title
- A HAND-BOOK TO THE BRITISH MAMMALIA [Association Set from the Library of Eric Hosking] Lloyd's Natural History.
- Author
- Lydekker, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Lloyd Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mammals;
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