London Map Fair
The Royal Geographical Society will be hosting the annual London Antique Map fair this coming June, eneabling dealers, collectors, curators and map enthusiasts to view a fantastic selection of rare antique maps. Many will be available to purchase, ranging in age from 15th to the 20th century with prices from £10 to £100,000. Also on show there are Atlases, Travel Books, Globes, Sea Charts, Town Plans, Topographical Prints and related ephemera.
Visitors to the fair will also be able to attend a series of London Map Fair Lectures – the first year these have been offered – that will be held during the two-day event at 2.30pm daily in the Ondaatje Theatre. (Admission is free and is offered strictly on a first come, first served basis.)
Saturday 7th June, 2.30pm
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 8th at 2.30pm
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 18th 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
info@londonmapfairs.com
www.londonmapfairs.com
Visitors to the fair will also be able to attend a series of London Map Fair Lectures – the first year these have been offered – that will be held during the two-day event at 2.30pm daily in the Ondaatje Theatre. (Admission is free and is offered strictly on a first come, first served basis.)
Saturday 7th June, 2.30pm
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 8th at 2.30pm
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 18th 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
info@londonmapfairs.com
www.londonmapfairs.com
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