June 2010 | Jonathan Shipley

The Best Bookstores in the World

From Brussels to Los Angeles, London to Kyoyo, spectacular, they are.

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Visual Art

Carlo Galli Bibiena, A Colonnaded Stage Set

The Morgan Library Presents Drawings by the Bibiena Family

The Morgan Library Acquires Group of Exceptional Prints by Martin Puryear

On View: British Postcards

Exhibitions

New Haven’s Institute Library book covers gallery view

The Institute Library Presents Cover Story: In Praise of the Exterior Surface

Ghost Words: Palimpsests on View

Grolier Club Will Host Typography Exhibition

Maps

Dr. John Snow used this map to further demonstrate that cholera was not caused by foul city air but by something in the water.

Maps in the Time of Cholera

British Library Makes 40,000 Historical Maps Available Online

The Legendary Vladi Collection of Historical Maps at Guernsey’s

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‘Democratized’ Book, Map, and Manuscript Auctions Promise Finds in All Price Ranges

Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale

Photographs

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother

Dorothea Lange Leads March Sale of Fine Photographs at Swann

Briscoe Center for American History Acquires Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive

Online Getty Exhibition Explores Palmyra in English and Arabic

Auctions

Albercht Dürer, The Birth of the Virgin

Old Master Through Modern Prints at Swann Galleries May 6

1917 Norman Rockwell Painting Comes to Auction After More Than a Century

Contents of French Antiquarian Bookshop for Sale

Book People

Brendan W. Clark

Bright Young Collectors: Brendan W. Clark

Wolfson History Prize 2021 Shortlist Includes Burning the Books

The Huntington Awards Octavia E. Butler Fellowship to Alyssa Collins

Book Arts

Artist George Cochrane

Brooklyn Artist’s Illuminated Manuscript Honors Dante

The Folio Society Publishes the Complete Short Stories of Philip K. Dick

Saving the Art of Bookbinding in the UK

Americana

Early printing of The Declaration of Independence

The Lipman Collection of Americana Achieves $12.4 Million at Sotheby’s

Landmarks of American History at Christie’s

Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann April 15

Rare Books

Ethan Frome Book cover

Inscribed to Her Butler: An Astonishing Wharton Association

Peter Harrington’s New Travel Catalogue Arrives

Western States Virtual Book Fair Kicks Off April 29