Now in its 27^th consecutive year, we are proud to announce the new Map Fair venue for 2008 :   The Royal Geographical Society.

 This is the largest Antique Map Fair in Europe and the most established in the world.

It  brings together 40 of the leading international dealers as well as hundreds of collectors, curators, academic and map afecionados from all over the world.

LONDON MAP FAIR  

The Royal Geographical Society

1 Kensington Gore
London, SW7 2AR

SATURDAY  7^TH  June  12.00 – 19.00 

SUNDAY 8^TH June  10.00 – 17.00

(Free Entrance)

A fantastic selection of Rare Antique Maps is available to purchase, ranging in age from 15^th C. to 20^th C., from all parts of the world and for all pockets: priced from £10 to £100,000.

Also on show there are Atlases, Travel Books, Globes, Sea Charts, Town Plans, Topographical Prints and related ephemera.

The historic and attractive premises of the Royal Geographical Society provide a natural home for the Antique Map Fair.  Associated with great names of British travel and exploration such as Livingstone, Stanley, Scott, Shackleton, Hunt and Hillary, it is probably  “a marriage made in haven” .

The RGS is conveniently situated at the edge of Hyde Park, next to the Royal Albert Hall and close to the Victoria & Albert Museum, Harrods, Knightsbridge and the West End.

By moving to the RGS, with its purpose built Ondaatje lecture theatre, we  are delighted to announce the first series of London Map Fair Lectures that will be held during the 2-day Map Fair event. 

London Map Fair Lectures at 14.30 daily in the Ondaatje Theatre, RGS.

(Admission is free and is offered strictly on a first come first served basis)

Our distinguished inaugural guest speakers are:

Peter Barber and Laurence Worms:

Saturday June 7^th at 14.30:

Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, British Library:

“ Fixing the image: the mapping of London 297-1900 ”

The mapping of London has been marked by the appearance of a limited number of influential images that provided the model for subsequent commercially-published maps. These ‘great maps’ were intended to impress and they carry interesting cultural and political messages about the times in which they were created. Side-by-side were the smaller maps generally created London for use by Londoners. These reveal very different Londons from the images contained in the big maps.

Taken together they provide an interesting commentary on Londoners and their relations with the wider world through the ages.

Sunday June 8^th at 14.30:

Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books & theLondon RareBooks School:

 " Fixing the Map Trade: TheLondon of the 18th CenturyLondon Mapmakers “

An exploration of the locally produced maps of London of the eighteenth century, not as a means of defining London, but as a means of defining the map trade itself - in terms of location, local preoccupations, collaboration and rivalry, increasing sophistication, growing ambition, and ultimate maturity

For further information contact: 

London Map Fairs Ltd

Tel:  020 7836 1901 /01732 460 025

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