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Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

October 23, Washington. Library of Congress, Books and Beyond Series, 6:00 pm. Montpelier Room, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Author Vincent Virga, and Ron Grim will discuss Virga's recently-published work, Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations. For more information, call 202-707-5221.

October 25, Denver. The Rocky Mountain Map Society meeting, 6:00 pm. Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway. Scott R. McEathron discusses The Kansas Pocket Maps of Otis B. Gunn and David T. Mitchell: A Case of Nineteenth Century Promotional Cartography. McEathron is Map & Geography Librarian of the University of Kansas Libraries.

October 25, Oxford. 5:00 - 6:30 pm. The 15th Annual Series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Cartographic veracity in medieval mapping: new findings from digitizing the Gough Map of Great Britain. A lecture by Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast). For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

October 27, Frederick, Maryland. 6:30 pm, Frederick's Best Antiques & Decorative Art, 307 East Second Street. Cartographic Associates will host its annual Open House for members of the Washington Map Society. RSVP by October 23rd. Contact: Chase Barnett, 888-513-6277.

October 30, Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. 5:30 pm. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool. A lecture by David Beckingham (Research Student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and Emmanuel College). Open to the public. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.

November 1, London. 5.00 pm. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme. Mapping the Realm: New Perspectives on the Gough Map of Great Britain (c.1280-c.1360). Dr Keith Lilley (Department of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast). University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, Open to the public, free admission, followed by refreshments.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

October 19 - 20, New York. West Side Book & Ephemera Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 110 West 19th St. For information, email or call 413-528-2327.

October 21, Northampton, MA. The Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St., (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA. For information, email or call 631-261-4590.

October 26 - 27, Las Vegas. Booksellers Association of Southern Nevada: Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-444-9415.

October 26-27, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The Greater Princeton Antiquarian Book Fair.The New Jersey National Guard Armory, 151 Eggert Crossing Road, Lawrenceville.

October 27, York, PA. York Book & Paper Fair. Old Main Bldg., Carlisle Ave (Rte 74). 717-285-2255.

November 3-4, Garden City, NY. The Long Island Book & Paper Fair. Garden City Field House (St. Paul’s School), 295 Stewart Avenue. For information, 631-261-4590, or visit Flamingo Shows.

November 4-11, Miami. Miami Book Fair International. Wolfson Campus, Miami Dade College. 300 N.E. Second Ave. For information call 305-237-3258.

November 10, Houston. Houston Book Fair. Museum of Printing History, 1324 West Clay. For information, call 713-522-4652 or email Bookfair@printingmuseum.org

November 11, Wilmington, DE. Delaware Books & Ephemera Too! 2600 Pennsylvania Ave. For information call 631-261-4590.

November 11, Albany,NY. Institute of History & Art Antiquarian Book Fair. The Armory, 195 Washington Avenue. 518-463-4478.

November 16-18. Boston. ABAA Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair . Hynes Convention Center. Tickets and full information about this major show are available at their website.

November 17, Boston. Book Print & Ephemera Show. For more information, call 413-441-1010 or email bbshows@aol.com


Auction Calendar

October 26 - 27, Northport, Maine. Jay-Alsop Estate Auction. Location: The Blue Goose Center, located on Route 1 in Northport, Maine, which is between Belfast and Camden. An important estate auction of family descendants of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the United States. Among the estate furnishings are books, prints, and of special note, two 1835-1840 Newton (London) globes on stands. Visit the website for information about preview times and auction times, or call 207-338-1386, or email to 2andrews@bluestreakme.com

October 30, Bath, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 1.

October 31, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Americana.

November 1, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. The Cartography Collection of Harry Sutcliffe, with Travel, Exploration & Natural History.

November 1-2, London. Bloomsbury Auctions. Natural History, Travel & Topography, Photographs, Atlases and Maps.

November 7, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera.

November 8, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Maps & Atlases, Map Reference, Autographs & Manuscripts.

November 9, Paris. Loeb-Larocque Auction. Antique maps, atlases, old books, prints, travel books.

November 15, London. Sothebys. Travel, Natural History, Maps, & Atlases.

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Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

September 27, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Charles H. Lindbergh and his Flying Maps, an illustrated lecture presented by Ralph Ehrenberg, former chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, and former director of the Cartographic Archives Division of the National Archives. Over his lifetime, Lindbergh amassed an important collection of early aeronautical maps, now housed, among other institutions, at the Smithsonian Institution. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.

October 5 - 6, Arlington, Texas. Annual fall meeting of the Texas Map Society. Email Kit Goodwin for information.

October 11, Alexandria, Virginia. 7:30 pm, The Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street in Old Town. Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map in Light of Aboriginal America. A presentation by Dr. Stephen Potter, Regional Archaeologist for the National Parks Service. For more information, email Ruth Reeder, museum educator, or call 703-838-4399.

October 13, New York. The New York Map Society meets at 2:30 pm., New York Public Library, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Norse Discovery of America, a lecture by Neil Good. for details, email Sy Amkraut.

October 17, Toronto. 5:00 pm. The Upper Canada Map Society tours the City of Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road (north of Dupont). The tour includes a viewing of selected cartographic items. For more information, email Megan Webster.

October 18, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Recent Advances in Washington's GIS Mapping, a lecture by D.C.'s GIS program manager, Barney Krucoff. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.

October 25, Oxford. 5:00 - 6:30 pm. The 15th Annual Series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Cartographic veracity in medieval mapping: new findings from digitizing the Gough Map of Great Britain. A lecture by Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast). For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

October 30, Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. 5:30 pm. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool. A lecture by David Beckingham (Research Student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and Emmanuel College). will discuss All are welcome. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

September 29, Philadelphia. Philadelphia Book and Paper Show. Pennsylvania National Guard Armory, Southampton & Roosevelt Streets. Information: 215-757-1132.

September 30, Lansing, MI. Michigan Book Fair. 333 East Michigan Ave.

October 6, Allentown, PA. Book, Paper & Advertising Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds. 610-706-0214.

October 6-7, Forth Worth, TX. North Texas Book & Paper Show. Will Rogers Complex, Amon Carter Jr. Exhibits Blg. Forth Worth.

October 7, New York. Collectible Paperback & Pulp Expo. 440 West 57th St. (Bet 9th & 10th Avenues).

October 19 - 20, New York. West Side Book & Ephemera Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 110 West 19th St. For information, email or call 413-528-2327.

October 21, Northampton, MA. The Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St., (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA. For information, email or call 631-261-4590.

October 26 - 27, Las Vegas. Booksellers Association of Southern Nevada: Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-444-9415.

October 26-27, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The Greater Princeton Antiquarian Book Fair.The New Jersey National Guard Armory, 151 Eggert Crossing Road, Lawrenceville.

October 27, York, PA. York Book & Paper Fair. Old Main Bldg., Carlisle Ave (Rte 74). 717-285-2255.


Auction Calendar

September 18 - 26, Internet. Old World Auctions. Online auction of antique maps and prints.

September 26 - 27, London. Christies. Exploration and Travel.

September 29 - October 9, Internet. Paulus Swaen. Online auction of antique maps and prints.

October 3, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, & Ephemera.

October 11, New York. Swann Galleries. Autographs.

October 11, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Fine Americana with Manuscripts & Autographs.

October 30, Bath, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 1.

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Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

August 11, New York. The New York Map Society meets at 2:30 pm., New York Public Library, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. Joseph Garver, the Reference Librarian of the Harvard Map Collection, will discuss his book, Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930. Details, contact Sy Amkraut.

September 8, New York. The New York Map Society meets at 2:30 pm., New York Public Library, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. John Cloud, Historian & Geographer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will be speaking at this meeting. Details, contact Sy Amkraut.

September 8, Richmond, Virginia. The Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street, Richmond. 1:00 PM. A presentation by the Library of Virginia Foundation's Fry-Jefferson Map Society. Dr. Joyce Chaplin, the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, will discuss Mapping Population in Early Virginia. Dr. Michael Gaudio, assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, presents Virginia through the Engraver's Eyes: Theodor de Bry and his Influence.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

August 3 - 4, Denver. 23rd Annual Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair. Denver Merchandise Mart, I-25 at East 58th Avenue. For more information, visit Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association.

August 9, Bedford, N.H. The Granite State Book & Ephemera Fair. The Event Center at C.R. Sparks, 18 Kilton Road (Opposite the Quality/Wayfarer Inn) Bedford, N.H. For more details, call 631-261-4590.

August 18, Cincinnati, OH. The Cincinnati Book Fair. Business Club of Montgomery, 7777 Ted Gregory Lane (formerly Sycamore), Cincinnati, OH For more details call 513-321-7567.

September 4 and 5, Sturbridge, MA. The Sturbridge Book & Ephemera Fair. The Sturbridge Host Hotel, 366 Main Street (Rt. 20) Sturbridge, MA. For more details, visit Flamingo Shows, or call 631-261-4590.

September 14 & 15, Denver. Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair. Denver Central Library, 13th & Broadway, Denver. For more information, contact farwesttc@sisna.com Information is also available at the Rocky Mountain Map Society. The Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair, an annual event, brings together an international cast of dealers in antique maps. Sponsored by the Denver Public Library, the Fair includes maps dating back to the 1500's. It is open to the public, with an entrance fee of $5. Many maps are available for sale.

Auction Calendar

August 9, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Natural History, Travel & Exploration, Sporting, Maps & Atlases.

August 29, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Overseas Maps, & Ephemera.

September 11, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 1.

September 12. Online Auction. Old World Auctions. An online auction featuring many excellent antique maps and prints. Remains online for 3 weeks from start of auction.

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Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

June 8-9, London. Annual meeting of the International Map Collectors' Society. The annual dinner is at 7:30 pm on the Friday, at the East India Club, 16 St. James Square. The meeting and lectures take place on Saturday at 10:30 am. For more information, please contact the IMCoS Secretary.

June 9, Beacon, New York. The New York Map Society will be visiting the Beacon Institute to view a map, created by cartographer Connie Brown, and an exhibit, about the Hudson River Watershed. See the map society meeting page for full details.

June 12, Denver. Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, 6:30 PM, at home of Richard and Marcia Baum. The meeting will focus on Richard Baum's collection: Maps as Art, Geographical Oddities, and Geopolitical Landmarks. For more information, contact California Map Society is conducting a field trip to the Chabot Space and Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland. Among other presentations, Nick Kanas, M.D. will discuss the Golden Age of Pictorial Celestial Cartography, 1600-1800, and Phil Simon will discuss puzzle maps from around the world, from ancient to modern. See the society's meeting page for more information, or email Phil Simon.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

June 8-9, London. Annual London Map Fair. Olympia 2 Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Road, London.

June 10, Portland, Maine. Portland Book, Print & Paper Show, Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street Portland , ME 04101

June 30, Cooperstown, New York. Cooperstown Antiquarian Book Fair, Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue, Cooperstown. For information: 607-638-9962.

July 1, Portland, Maine. 2007 Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West, 81 Riverside Street, Portland. For information: 207-828-8065.

July 14, Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox Book & Ephemera Show. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

July 28, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Antiquarian Book Fair at the Castle. John Dewey Academy (Searles Castle), Main Street, Route 7, Great Barrington. For information: 413-441-1010.

Auction Calendar

June 12, Bath. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 1.

June 14, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints.

June 7, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Fine & Rare Books, including Maps & Atlases.

June 20, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, & Ephemera.

June 26, London. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Photography.

July 3, Bath. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 2.

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