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Articles - July - 2009 Issue

An Update on Summer Possibilities

Book Fairs:  the gates of imagination

Book Fairs: the gates of imagination


Latino Book & Family Festivals
phone: 713-236-1073
email: jims@latinofestivals.com
www.lbff.us/
Los Angeles
Aug 29 and 30

Michigan Storytellers Festival
Flint, MI
phone: 810-232-7111,ext.2173
www.flint.lib.mi.us/msf/index.shtml
July 17 and 18

New Hampshire Book Fair
Everett Arena
Concord, New Hampshire
Aug 16

Papermania Plus
XL Center
Hartford, Connecticut
www.bookfairs.com
Aug 22 & 23

Rhinebeck Antiques Show
Rhinebeck Fairgrounds
Rhinebeck, New York
www.bookfairs.com
Jul 25

Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair
Denver Merchandise Mart
I-25, 58th Ave
Denver CO
July 31 and Aug 1st

Searles Castle Antiquarian Book Fair
Searles Castle
Route 7>br> Great Barrington, MA
Aug 1

Steinbeck Festival
Salinas, CA
phone: 831-796-3833
www.steinbeck.org/
Aug 6 to 9

Stockbridge Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair
Town Hall [formerly The Plain School]
50 Main Street [Route 7]
Stockbridge, MA 01262
www.bookfairs.com
Jul 11

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
Sechelt, BC, Canada
phone: 604-885-9631 or 1-800-565-9631
email: written_arts@sunshine.net
www.writersfestival.ca
Aug 13 to 16

Three Rivers Storytelling Festival
Pittsburgh, PA
phone: 412-366-8100
http://home.comcast.net/~3rstf/
Aug 7 and 8

Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
Orem, UT
phone: 801-229-7436
email:storyteller@timpfest.org
www.timpfest.org/
Sept 3 to 5

Tokyo International Book Fair
Tokyo, Japan
web.reedexpo.co.jp/tibf/english
July 9 to 12

Vermont Summer Book Fair
Union Community Center
Route 4
Woodstock, VT
Aug 9

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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.

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