FIELD-STUDIES OF SOME RARER BRITISH BIRDS [From the Library of Eric Hosking]

Editorial: Witherby & Co., London, 1914

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pp. ix, [3], 305, [3]. Original dust jacket very good, some wear and rubbing to the spine and spine ends. Green cloth hardback binding very good, unmarked. Contents good and tight, significant foxing/spotting to first and last few page and page edges. Bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking on the front pastedown. [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. Size: 8vo.…

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Título
FIELD-STUDIES OF SOME RARER BRITISH BIRDS [From the Library of Eric Hosking]
Autor
Walpole-Bond, John
Editorial
Witherby & Co., London
Año de publicación
1914
Estado
Very Good
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Very Good
Tipo de libro
Book
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Edición
First Edition.
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Birds - British

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