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Ennion, Eric, [Edited by Bob Walthew]Biblio.com

ERIC ENNION A TENERIFE DIARY Limited to 750 copies

2025réf. 039152Suffolk : Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery 2025. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Limited to 750 copies. pp. 72 colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd. A Tenerife Diary focuses on Eric Ennion's trip to the island in the winter of 1961. Eric's writing is complemented by is distinctive and stylish artwork. This is one of four books edited by Bob Walthew. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist writer illustrator and radio presenter specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books including the posthumously published Bird Man's River illustrating all but one of them himself and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery Hardcover

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Ennion, Eric, [Edited by Bob Walthew]Biblio.com

ERIC ENNION A TENERIFE DIARY Limited to 750 copies

2025réf. 039153Suffolk : Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery 2025. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Limited to 750 copies. pp. 72 colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd. A Tenerife Diary focuses on Eric Ennion's trip to the island in the winter of 1961. Eric's writing is complemented by is distinctive and stylish artwork. This is one of four books edited by Bob Walthew. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist writer illustrator and radio presenter specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books including the posthumously published Bird Man's River illustrating all but one of them himself and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery Hardcover

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ROBERTS BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA Inscribed to Eris Hosking by Peter Steyn Ornithologist

1972réf. 038910Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund 1972. Book. Illus. by Norman Lighton and J. Perry & K. Hooper. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxxii 643; numerous colour and b/w plates. Original dust jacket very good toned to the spine with a little rubbing to edges not price-clipped now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding very good. Contents clean and tight bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking tipped onto the front pastedown no inscriptions. A very good copy in a very good to near fine jacket. Particularly scarce with the jacket. 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 ingenious title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 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. Peter Steyn -a lifetime devoted to the study of all things birds outstanding contribution to ornithological science. Peter Steyn's published books are: Eagle Days 1973; A Guide to the Common Birds of Wankie later Hwange National Park 1974 which remained in print for 25 years; his major work Birds of Prey of Southern Africa 1982 which ran to three impressions and still remains the definitive reference work on these raptors; A Delight of Owls 1984; Hunters of the African Sky 1990; Birds of Southern Africa 1991; his second major - and a lifetime's - work Nesting Birds 1996; and Antarctic Impressions - Seasons in the Southern Ocean 2007. John Voelcker Bird Book Fund Hardcover

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