From York to Melbourne: this year's Summer Book and Education Feature brings to the attention of Apollo's readers new, rare and antiquarian books on the fine and decorative arts alongside several educational opportunities

We start with details of art history summer institutes and study trips in Cambridge and London and also Postgraduate diplomas and MA courses at the renowned community at West Dean in Sussex. This is then followed by means of a look at antiquarian books

Internationally the world of antiquarian volumes is busy in the coming month Auctions highlighted here are taking place upon 3 September, in Hay-on-Wye, famed for its bookshop in eau-de-cologne on 23-25 September and in Leyburn North Yorkshire upon 12 October. Three important fairs take place: The York National work Fair, England (10 & 11 September), Ars Libri, Barcelona (8-11 September) and The 20th volume Fair of the International League of Antiquarian bibliopoles in Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 October.

The York National work Fair is an annual incident and lays claim to being Britain's largest rare and antiquarian volume fair with some 200 bibliopolists and an estimate of a certain number of 100,000 books on offer. This year the fair has relocated to the Knavesmire Suite at York Racecourse with unlimited unrestrained parking and free shuttle buses from the railway station each 15 minutes. A visit to their website, www.yorkbookfair.com gives you complimentary tickets and a link to York's website for public-house bookings etc. Illustrated on these pages are sum of two units items on show. Janette Ray is selling a 1960 architectural write & wash perspective of Duddeston Shopping middle point Birmingham by SN Cooke & partners. Her bookshop in York is well worth visiting for anyone interested in architecture and related design disciplines, www.janetteray.co.uk. Jarndyce Antiquarian bibliopoles have been selling books published before 1920 for thirty four years, and in that time above 150 catalogues have been published. Their building in Great Russell way opposite the British Museum, was built in the 1730 and given a facelift by dint of the Duke of Bedford in the 1850 Randolph Caldecott, the 19th hundred illustrator, lived and worked there and it has been a bookshop for above a century. The ground floor has lately been renovated to recreate a 19th hundred bookshop within an 18th hundred building, incorporating panelling, a working fireplace and original made of wood floor. One of the interesting whirls they have in stock at the instant is this bound set of 27 highly finished ink sketches, from 1859 of the alphabet through the painter and designer Godfrey Syke who trained as an engraver and worked in London upon the decoration of the V & A before an early death from consumption.

Also exhibiting is Ron Wilson, whose aged Town Bookshop, from deep in the heart of Edinburgh's advanced in years Town, with its vaulted ceiling is filled to the brim with volumes as well as early manuscript leaves, of advanced age maps and prints. He will be bringing a selection of Gillray prints and rare volumes on art and architecture, Robert Adam, Mackintosh, Walton, hellenic Thomson, Matisse, Picasso, Rothko, Pollock etc A visit to his website will also reveal an exhibition of his possess paintings--www.oldtownbookshop.co.uk

The fair at the Port Veil in Barcelona is a fresh one and its list of exhibitors promises a hardy international line up, including Bernard J Shapero Rare works Robert Frew Ltd and several others from London. It has a special preview opening at 7 pm upon 7th September. Any enquiries can be addressed to Carmen Rovira at the Estudio Bibliografico, email: crovirah@terra.es

Further away the members of the Australian and of recent origin Zealand Association of Antiquarian bibliopolists are hosting for the first time the 20th International Antiquarian volume Fair in Melbourne at the Royal Exhibition Building. It is also hosting the accompanying Congres of the International League of Antiquarian bibliopolists in the days before (8-13 October). Exhibitors at the fair include London's Jonathan trifle world renowned for his cartographical knowledge and collection of maps, including this, the first printed map of the Pacific Ocean--one of the greatest in quantity important maps in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". Unusually for Ortelius, no source for this famous map is cited, suggesting that he may have compiled the information himself. The delineation of the Pacific is dominated by means of the large island of novel Guinea, the great southern Continent and the depiction of Magellan's flagship the "Victoria", with the quatrain "It was I who first circled the world, my sails flying. You, Magellan, I l to your of recent origin found strait; by right am I called Victoria; mine are the sails and the wings, the prize and the glory, the aim and the sea". Other dealers from London wait fored to exhibit include Robert Frew Ltd Simon Finch, Maggs, Bernard Quaritch, R Gekoski and Michael Graves Johnston. Clearly a actual good quality fair is wait fored The congress includes day tours to Ballarat and Sovereign Hill Parks and tours of Melbourne's notable Libraries including those of The Parliament of Victoria, The greatest Court of Victoria, The State Library of Victoria, The University of Melbourne and The Grainger Museum. www.ilab-lila.com