www.yorkbookfair.com

Kick off the New Year in style at the UK’s largest one-day Book Fair. Free tickets via the website, and free shuttle bus from the station. www.yorkbookfair.com

Coming soon, our next catalogue - all things butterflies, moths. Identifying, catching, collecting, displaying… 19th century books, manuscripts and objects. #butterflies #moths #insects - message to get your copy.

Our next catalogue features over 200 19th century guide and view books - all from one private collection. Out in April, please message to receive a copy.

Sunbathing bee eaters in KNP last week! #southafrica #kruger #birds

Morning mud bath in the Kruger

A pale Wahlberg eagle - KNP- one of over 100 eagles of various types, gathered for an eruption of termites.

Today is International Zebra Day. Taking advantage of hot ashes in a controlled burn in Kruger in October. #kruger #zebra #safari #southafrica

Just purchased a good lot of birding guides and reference material. Currently for sale. #birds #ornithology

Yorkshire kingfishers #kingfisher #yorkshire #birds

White tailed eagle in action in Scotland. #bird #eagle #scotland

African swallow #kruger #southafrica

Young moorhen in the reedbed. #birds #naturephotography

Great white egret gracefully lifting off from the Suffolk marshes. #suffolk #birds #egret

Under a week until the York One Day Book Fair. We will be there, will you? Free ticket attached to this post. #rarebooks #york

This was the first English dictionary published in folio. It was though not strictly ‘new’ as the author pirated some earlier works. Just sold from our latest list. #dictionary #rarebooks

1663 Cambridge Bible in our new January list of recent acquisitions. #bible #rarebooks

Happy New Year. Wishing you the very best for 2025.

Congratulations and very well deserved.

Thank you… still as busy but now online and book fairs only.

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a very happy New Year.

With many thanks to all our customers and colleagues for their support this year.

Tony & Nicki Fothergill

Let me introduce Kitty Draws Dogs - brilliant! www.kittydrawsdogs.com

#dog #dogart #canine

In the recent drought a Fish Eagle hunts for the few remaining fish in a dry water hole. Surprising how many were caught. Uses wings to shade the water from the overhead sun. #eagle #safari #birds #wildlife #africa

Tusker tustle in KNP #elephant

War Horses. An interesting record of troop horses during the 1st World War. Now found a good institutional home to join with other military medical documents. #warhorse #horses #WW1 #manuscript #military

Brings back memories of the 1970s in Alcuin.

Orange breasted bush-shrike in South Africa. - very easy song to mimic - and confuse others who look for something that isn’t there! #birds #ornithology

Picture by Tony Fothergill, October 2024

Leopard and young cub by the Sabie River, KNP, October 2024. #leopard #bigcats #safari #africa

17th century treatise on comets - divine judgement or scientific occurrence was a hot topic. One of a number of works in our next catalogue on #astronomy #comets #theology #rarebooks #science #17thcentury

Lion emerging from the bush by high river Sabie bridge in October. #lion #africa #safari #photography #wildlife