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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
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