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New Naturalist No. 10 BRITISH PLANT LIFE [Association Copy- Eric Hosking]
by Turrill, W. B
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1948. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. From the private collection of eric Hosking. A near fine first edition copy. Pp. xvii, 315, 53 colour plates, 27 black-and-white plates and 10 figures in the text. Original dust jacket very good, no fading, some rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine and corners, not price clipped, now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Green buckram cloth binding fine. Contents clean and tight and fresh, no inscriptions, attractive book plate belonging to Eric Hosking to the front pastedown, no marks. A fine very bright first edition in a very good jacket. [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.] [Collecting the New naturalists NN10A].
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- Title
- New Naturalist No. 10 BRITISH PLANT LIFE [Association Copy- Eric Hosking]
- Author
- Turrill, W. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- The New Naturalist
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- New Naturalist;
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