June 2010 | Jonathan Shipley

What are the Best Book Covers of 2009?

The one above, according to the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and 49 others.

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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

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

Auctions

Daguerreotype of firefighter Walter Van Erven Dorens

Cowan’s to Present American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week

Ephemera, Photos & Rare Books at AntiquarianAuctions.com US #7

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

Book Arts

Mark Hark handmade paper and Sonja Peterson cut paper

Two Minnesota Book Artists Win $25,000 Fellowships

The 2021 Morgan Book Project Winners

Arion Press Enters New Era

Rare Books

Gutenberg Bible leaf detail

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

Detroit Festival of Books Will Add a Virtual Component

Booksellers From Germany, Austria & Switzerland Launch Virtual Rare Book Fair

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woman holding books

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

Book People

Elizabeth Gaskell's bedroom

Mrs. Gaskell’s Bedroom Gets a Makeover

Video Fridays: Kevin Mac Donnell’s Mark Twain Collection

The Books about Books of Summer

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

A collection of Brando’s scripts, letters, and memorabilia for The Godfather

Brando’s Scripts Led Bonhams/TCM Auction

Rediscovered Raymond Chandler Article Published

Library of Congress to Publish Anthology of First Peoples Poetry