Our winter 2026 catalogue is now live
Some Fine Bird Books
Explore our new catalogue, featuring fine ornithological works by some of the most renowned authors and illustrators from the Golden Age of Avain Illustration
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Featured Items
8 volumes finely bound
Harrap's Myths Series
Uniformly bound in calfskin by Morrell of London and Bates of Leicester, available to purchase individually.
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon's standard work on the subject, with Bury's commentary. A standard work, still referred to today.
Once upon a midnight dreary
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
The 1st Arthur Rackham edition with illustrations which he said “were so horrible I was beginning to frighten myself.”
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A 10th overall printing of arguably the most famous work of modern fantasy, with Tolkien's own illustrations and jacket design.
The father of a nation
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The autobiography of South Africa's first democratic president. This edition printed to celebrate the 1995 Rugby World Cup. A Fine copy, signed by Mandela.
an iconic south african photobook
In Boksburg by David Goldblatt
Boksburg in 1970s Apartheid South Africa as seen through the lens of South Africa's premier documentary photographers. Number 4 of a limited edition of 50, signed by Goldblatt and bound in leather.