LONDON AND PARIS MAP FAIR 2018

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LONDON MAP FAIR 2018

The London Map Fair is an annual event, organized in June, that exhibits the historic London venue of the Royal Geographical Society. The resplendent event brings together the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers and visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map connoisseurs from all parts of the world. It is noted for being the largest specialist fair of its kind. Exhibitors offer a range of atlases, travel books, globes, nautical charts, town plans, topographical prints and related ephemera. The fair also organizes talks on map collecting for beginners held throughout the weekend.

THE HISTORY OF THE FAIR

Map fairs in London stretch back thirty years since first staged. This is the largest specialist map fair in Europe today. The leading British map-sellers exhibit alongside dealers from the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Greece. The fair creates a suitably international atmosphere for a map lover and provides the perfect opportunity for novice collectors to examine original maps at first hand and talk to acknowledged experts in the field.

Since 2008 the London Map Fair has been held at the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington. The historic venue is ideal, a natural home for an event devoted to cartography, although visitors with long memories will recall how the fair has evolved over time.

Other events held at the London Map Fair are major attractions like the London International Antiquarian Book Fair, Dominic Winter Auctions, and Winter Auctions.

PARIS MAP FAIR 2018

Paris Map Fair is a 1-day event that is held in November 2018 every year at the Ambassador Hotel in the heart of Paris. The 17th edition of the fair will showcase antique maps, atlases, town views and prints, globes, scientific instruments and travel books from more than 33 national and international dealers.

This year would witness exhibits from 7 merchants that would include objects specifically dedicated to the navy and cartography. Visitors would get to see ancient cartography through maps of Paris and atlases from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Merchants from France and those established in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Cyprus, South Korea and the United States participate in the fair to turn it even grander.

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