September 2010 | Jonathan Shipley

The Ten Best Bookstores in America

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Pictured above: Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

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The Catawiki Books Department Expands Its Reach

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

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

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

Rare Books

A manuscript birthday message from Emily Brontë to her sister Anne Brontë

Consortium Formed to Save Honresfield Library Treasures

Heritage Auctions’ Rare Books Event Hits a Record-Setting $2.7 Million

Detroit Festival of Books Will Add a Virtual Component

Book People

Image of Andrew Lenoir

Bright Young Booksellers: Andrew Lenoir

Mrs. Gaskell’s Bedroom Gets a Makeover

Video Fridays: Kevin Mac Donnell’s Mark Twain Collection

Book Arts

Thornwillow Press edition of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Funding the First Fine Press Edition of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Two Minnesota Book Artists Win $25,000 Fellowships

The 2021 Morgan Book Project Winners

Auctions

Poems by Oscar Wilde inscribed to Alphonse Daudet

Wilde, Joyce, Carroll Association Copies at Bonhams

Ephemera, Comics, Toys at Hake’s June 29-30 Auction

Illustration Art at Swann Galleries June 24

Visual Art

Ashley Bryan, Illustration for Climbing Jacob's Ladder

The Carle Presents: Ashley Bryan in Song

Rediscovered 16th-Century Drawing at Christopher Bishop Fine Art

Bookplate Society Hosts Online Talk, June 22

Exhibitions

The Night-Blooming Cereus illustration

Rare Botany Books and Specimens on Exhibit

Miles Hyman's Narrative Images on View in NYC

Snowman Illustrator Raymond Briggs Retrospective Opens

Americana

The Oath of a Freeman detail

“Oath of a Freeman” Forgery Acquired for the Grolier Club

Brando’s Scripts Led Bonhams/TCM Auction

Rediscovered Raymond Chandler Article Published

Photographs

Operating an automatic press. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Lewis W. Hine, 1917

On View: Photographer and Social Reformer Lewis Hine

Author Lisa See Gives Huntington Rare Photos of LA’s Original Chinatown

Victorian Photo Collection Sells for $2 Million