Books, Maps & Manuscripts including The Library, Cameras and Picture Collection of Eric Hosking

American Civil War. Atlas to accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ... compiled by Capt. Calvin D. Cowles, 23d U. S. ...

Bertius (Petrus). Three Ptolemaic maps from Theatrum Geographiae Veteris, [Amsterdam: Isaac Elzevir & Jodocus Hondius, 1618-19], i.e. 'Africa tabu...

Blaeu (Willem Janszoon). Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia, Amsterdam, c.1636. Hand-coloured engraved map of Mexico with decorative cartouche and embe...

Braun (George, & Franz Hogenberg). Edenburgum Scotiae metropolis, [Cologne], c.1600. Engraved bird's-eye view of Edinburgh with apparently contemp...

British Isles. Collection of 17 engraved maps of the British Isles by various cartographers, 17th-early 19th century, including:1) Blaeu (Johannes...

British Isles. Collection of engraved maps, 18th-19th century, all sectionalised and laid on linen, with contemporary hand-colour, titles comprisi...

Camden (William). The Abridgment of Camden's Britannia. With the Maps of the sevrall Shires of England and Wales, London: John Bill, 1626. Oblong ...

Lizars (W. H., publisher). Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas, Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, [1841]. Folio (480 x 300 mm), contemporary black...

Speed (John). Leicester, both Countye and Citie described, London: John Sudbury and George Humble, 1610 [i.e. 1611 or later]. Hand-coloured engrav...

Speed (John). York Shire, [London]: to be solde ... by John Sudbury and G. Humble, 1610 [i.e. 1611 or later]. Engraved map, hand-coloured, 380 x 5...

American Civil War. Collection of memoirs, biographies and letters, including:1) Davis (Varina Jefferson). Jefferson Davis. Ex-President of the Co...

American Civil War. Collection of regimental and other histories, including:1) Clark (Walter, editor). Histories of the Several Regiments and Batt...

American Civil War. Collection of modern reference books, including John Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Westport, CT: Greenw...

American Civil War. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894...

Bernucca (Francesco, publisher). [Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, Milan: Francesco Bernucca, c.1816-1818]. O...

Egypt. Three photograph albums of RAF service in Egypt, c.1937-8. 3 albums, oblong folio (various dimensions), one in simulated snakeskin (some we...

Fergusson (W. N.). Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes, 1st edition, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1911. 8vo, original gre...

Frith (Francis, photographer). The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1862. Imper...

Holy Land. Large collection of travel accounts, 19th-20th century, including:1) Tristram (H. B.). The Land of Israel; a Journal of Travels in Pale...

India. Views of Benares from the River Side. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares [cover-title], c.1920-30. Oblong 16mo (118 x 142 mm), original s...

Keate (George). An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journal and Communications o...

Littler (Sir John Hunter, 1783-1856). 'Diaries of Sea Voyages in 1824 & 1826' [cover-title]. Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper (watermarked C ...

Near East. Album of photographs, c.1920. Oblong folio album, containing 37 large-format gelatin silver prints (230 x 295 mm and similar), depictin...

Prescott (William H.). History of the Conquest of Peru. Third Edition; History of the Conquest of Mexico, New Edition; History of the Reign of Cha...

Wilson (Charles William). Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, London: Virtue and Co., Limited, c.1880. 4 volumes, 4to (325 x 245 mm), contempo...

Dent (Robert K.). The Making of Birmingham: being a History of the Rise and Growth of the Midland Metropolis, 1st edition, large-paper issue, numb...

Kendall (Percy Fry, & Herbert E. Wroot). Geology of Yorkshire, 1st edition, Vienna: printed for the authors, 1924. 8vo, original cloth, numerous h...

Mining. North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. Transactions, volumes 1, 4-12, 15, 18, 22, 31-3 and index volume, 2nd edition of volume 1,...

Noble (Mark). Two Dissertations upon the Mint and Coins of the Episcopal-Palatines of Durham, 1st edition, Birmingham: for the author, 1780. 4to (...

Phillips (John). Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or, a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast [-Part II. ...

Rauthmell (Richard). Antiquitates Bremetonacenses: or, the Roman Antiquities of Overborough, 1st edition, London: Henry Woodfall, 1746. 4to (232 x...

Richardson (Joseph). Furness Past and Present: its History and Antiquities, 1st edition, Barrow-in-Furness: J. Richardson, 1880. 2 volumes, 4to, o...

Walker (George). The Costume of Yorkshire. Illustrated by a Series of Forty Engravings, being Fac-Similes of the Original Drawings, with Descripti...

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, in the Counties of Lancaster and York. The Second ...

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, 3rd edition, Leeds: Joseph Dodgson, 1878. Folio, original brown mo...

Harris (Moses). [The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects; namely, Moths and Butterflies]. L'Aurélien: ou histoire naturelle des cheni...

[Worlidge, John]. Systema Horti-culturae: or, the Art of Gardening, London: for Tho. Burrell, and Will. Hensman, 1677. 8vo (184 x 112 mm), contemp...

[Livestock print]. The Durham Ox, London: John Day, 1802. Stipple-engraving in colours by John Whessell after John Boultbee, approx. 500 x 610 mm,...

Allouse (Bashir E.). Birds of Iraq [Arabic title: al-Tuyur al-'Iraqiyah], 1st edition, Baghdad: Ar-Rabitta Press, 1960-2. 3 volumes in 1, 8vo (234...

Alpheraky (Sergius). The Geese of Europe and Asia, 1st edition in English, London: Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1905. Royal 4to, original green cloth gilt,...

Archer (Geoffrey, & Eva M. Godman). The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1937-61. 4 volu...

Attenborough (David, 1926-). The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1990. Large 8vo, original bo...

Bannerman (David A.). The Birds of Tropical West Africa, with Special Reference to those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria, ...

Booth (Edward Thomas). Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-Five Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 1st edition, Lo...

Butler (Arthur G.). Foreign Finches in Captivity, 1st edition, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1894. 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, pp. [4] viii ...

Chapman (Abel). Wild Spain; First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling; Wild Norway [2 copies]; Unexplored Spain; Savage Sudan; The Borders and Beyon...

English (Douglas, editor). Wild Life. An Illustrated Monthly. Art Editor, Joseph Simpson Vol. I [-IX], London, 1913-17. 9 volumes (of 10) in 7, 4t...

Forshaw (Joseph M.). Parrots of the World. Illustrated by Joseph William T. Cooper, 1st edition, Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1973. Folio, original...

Frohawk (Frederick William, 1861-1946). Natural History of British Butterflies, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1925]. 2 volumes, folio, o...

Godman (Frederick Du Cane). A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares), London: Witherby & Co., 1907-10. 2 volumes in 1, 4to (325 x 245 mm), lat...

Greene (William Thomas). Parrots in Captivity, 1st edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-7. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue-green morocco-grai...

Grimble (Augustus). Deer-Stalking and the Deer Forests of Scotland, 1st collected edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1901. ...

Hachisuka (Masauji). The Birds of the Philippine Islands, with Notes on the Mammal Fauna, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1931-5. 4 part...

Hachisuka (Masauji). The Dodo and Kindred Birds, or the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands, London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1953. 4to, origin...

Harrison (J. C., illustrator). The Birds of Prey of the British Islands. Descriptive Text, David Evans, 1st edition, number 70 of 275 copies signe...

Harvie-Brown (John Alexander, editor). [A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, part set, comprising:] The Outer Hebrides; The Orkney Islands; Iona and Mu...

Hewitson (William C.). Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, accompanied with Descriptions of the Eggs, Nests, etc., 2nd edition, L...

Howard (H. Eliot). The British Warblers. A History, with Problems of their Lives, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1907-14. 2 volumes, folio (28...

Kearton (Richard & Cherry). British Birds' Nests [later edition], London: Cassell and Company, Limited, c.1907. 8vo, original cloth, plates, with ...

Lee (Oswin A. J.). Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1897-9. 4 volumes, folio (377 x 262 mm), co...