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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket
Seller: Loe Books

United Kingdom
About 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… Read More
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