A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX [From the Library of Eric Hosking]

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245 pages, frontispiece plate with tissue guard and further b/w plates. Dust jacket very good with some general and rubbing, dust soiled, a little loss to the top of the spine, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable sleeve. Cloth hardbarck binding near fine. Contents clean and tight, a few spots to fore-edges, attractive bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking to the front pastedown. A very good copy in a scarce dust jacket with a good provenance. [ 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

A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX [From the Library of Eric Hosking]

Editor

H. F. & G. Witherby, London

Fecha de publicación

1935

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good

Tipo de libro

Book

Catálogos de vendedores

• Birds - General
• Birds - British Regional Guides