30th Apr, 2025 10:00
Cameras & Scientific Instruments
Turner, E. L. Broadland Birds, Eric Hoskins Copy
FROM THE LIBRARY OF BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC HOSKING - Turner, E. L. Broadland Birds. London: Country Life, Ltd., 1924. Quarto. Original quarter green cloth, green boards, titles to spine
gilt and to upper board in white, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 double-sided plates from photos by the author. Spine very slightly toned, boards with mottled fading as usual for this book, spotting to the contents and edges of the text block.
First and only edition of this beautifully illustrated work by pioneering bird photographer Emma Louise Turner (1867-1940), which includes the first publication of her award-winning photo of a great crested grebe on its nest. This copy from the library of prominent bird photographer Eric J. Hosking (1909-1991), demonstrating the strong influence that Turner had on later generations in her field. In the introduction to their 1947 volume Masterpieces of Bird Photography Hosking and co-author Harold Lowes lamented that they were unable to include her image of a water rail because no prints or negatives could be located.
This copy contains Hosking's owl bookplate and a blank sheet of his stationery loosely inserted, as well as a Christmas card signed "Cyril, 1934". This was likely from Cyril Newberry, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society who was employed by the London Midlands & Scottish Railway Scientific Research Laboratory, and was one of Hosking's frequent co-authors.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC HOSKING - Turner, E. L. Broadland Birds. London: Country Life, Ltd., 1924. Quarto. Original quarter green cloth, green boards, titles to spine
gilt and to upper board in white, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 double-sided plates from photos by the author. Spine very slightly toned, boards with mottled fading as usual for this book, spotting to the contents and edges of the text block.
First and only edition of this beautifully illustrated work by pioneering bird photographer Emma Louise Turner (1867-1940), which includes the first publication of her award-winning photo of a great crested grebe on its nest. This copy from the library of prominent bird photographer Eric J. Hosking (1909-1991), demonstrating the strong influence that Turner had on later generations in her field. In the introduction to their 1947 volume Masterpieces of Bird Photography Hosking and co-author Harold Lowes lamented that they were unable to include her image of a water rail because no prints or negatives could be located.
This copy contains Hosking's owl bookplate and a blank sheet of his stationery loosely inserted, as well as a Christmas card signed "Cyril, 1934". This was likely from Cyril Newberry, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society who was employed by the London Midlands & Scottish Railway Scientific Research Laboratory, and was one of Hosking's frequent co-authors.
Auction: Cameras & Scientific Instruments, 30th Apr, 2025
