Brattle Book Shop - Boston, MA - www.brattlebookshop.com

One of America's oldest (established 1825) and largest antiquarian bookstores, the Brattle features an outside sale lot (picture above), two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books.

Dymocks Bookstore Hong Kong  -  www.dymocks.com.hk

Melisa Bookstore - Lugano, Switzerland - advertising bookmark

Bookstore Anne-Marie Pfister interior - Basel, Switzerland

Bookstore Anne-Marie Pfister -  Basel, Switzerland

Bider & Tanner Bookstore and media house, Basel, Switzerland - advertising bookmarks 2000s - www.biderundtanner.ch

Galerie Bortier - Brussels - photography by Michel Wal on Wikimedia Commons

Galerie Bortier is a shopping arcade from 1848 in downtown Brussels designed by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer and houses antiquarian bookstores and art galleries.

Galerie Bortier - Brussels - photography by Michel Wal - Wikimedia Commons

Fifteenth Century Bookstore - Lewes, East Sussex, UK - www.oldenyoungbooks.co.uk - photography by Elsie esq. on Flickr

Librairie Ptyx - Bruxelles - www.librairie-ptyx.be

Nasobem Bookstore & Cafe interior - Basel, Switzerland - www.nasobem.ch

A very cosy place to warm up with a cup of tea or coffee and to browse through selected books. 

Nasobem Bookstore & Cafe - Basel, Switzerland - www.nasobem.ch

Libreria Teatral La Celestina - Madrid - Facebook Libreria Teatral La Celestina - photography by J. Labrado

Museum der Kulturen - Basel, Switzerland - Bookstore / Gift Shop in basement

Bookstore / Gift Shop of the Museum der Kulturen - Basel, Switzerland

Bookstore / Gift Shop of the Museum der Kulturen - Basel, Switzerland

Bokia Bookstore Vänersborg - Sweden

Bokia Bookstore Vänersborg - Sweden

Librairie Payot - Montreux, Switzerland

Akademibokhandeln Kungsgatan, Goteborg - Sweden - ground floor interior

Akademibokhandeln Kungsgatan, Goteborg - Sweden - upper floor interior

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China - drinks menu

According to the menu, one cappuccino costs 28 Yuan, which is about USD 4.50 (as per November 2012). This is a rather high price for Yunnan, however, Fleur de Paris is a place frequented by tourists. The price for a coffee will be about the half elsewhere, and tea is much more cheaper or even free mostly. 

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China - drinks menu

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China

Fleur de Paris -  Bookstore & Cafe - Kunming, Yunnan, China

Librairie La Fontaine - Vevey, Switzerland

Bokia Bookstore - Uddevala, Sweden - Kunsgatan 8, one of the oldest buildings of the town

Bokia Bookstore interior - Uddevala, Sweden

Bokia Bookstore interior - Uddevala, Sweden 

Kleynes Antikvariat - Karlstad, Sweden - www.kleynes.se

Kleynes Antikvariat - Karlstad, Sweden - www.kleynes.se

Librairie La Clef de Sol - Vevey, Switzerland - www.clefdesol.ch

Corran Books - Antiquarian Bookshop - Laugharne, Wales UK - photography by Andy Szybalski

Bookstore Bider & Tanner - Basel, Switzerland - www.biderundtanner.ch

The bookstore and media house Bider & Tanner is the largest independent bookstore in Basel and specializes in travel books and books in English language.

Bookstore Bider & Tanner - interior - Basel, Switzerland - www.biderundtanner.ch

Bookstore Bider & Tanner - second floor interior - Basel, Switzerland - www.biderundtanner.ch

Librairie Au Poivre d'âne - Manosque, France

Librairie Au Poivre d'âne interior - Manosque, France

Bookstore of the Goteborg Museum of Art - Goteborg, Sweden 

The Floating Bookstore - Leicestershire UK - photography by George Terezakis

New Words Bookstore - Cambridge, MA - advertising bookmark

"As of October 6, 2002, New Words Bookstore, a 28-year-old feminist institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, , is closed, but its legacy is assured for the future. All of the store's papers and records have been acquired by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, for its permanent collection." - Bookselling This Week, October 9, 2002  

Librairie Papeterie Roesch interior - Sisteron, France

Librairie Papeterie Roesch - Sisteron, France

Hedegrens Bookstore interior - Stockholm, Sweden - www.hedengrens.se

Livraria Cultura - Avenida Paulista - São Paulo, Brazil - largest bookstore in Brazil - photography by Rubens Guelman

Acqua Alta Bookstore - Venice, Italy - photography by Shimahitotsu

Buch Kaiser Bookstore - Karlsruhe, Germany - advertising bookmarks

Buch Kaiser, the traditional bookstore in Karlsruhe, was meanwhile also a victim of the concentration process in the book trading branch in Europe and may now act as one of the numerous branches of the book chain giant Thalia. Why is this bad? It's simple, because wherever you go you'll see the same shops, the same assortment of books and merchandise. Like the global species extinction, it makes our life poorer eliminating all the specialized bookstores with their different appearance, choice and communication. What a pity!