The London Map Fair provides a forum for collectors, curators & dealers from all over the world to buy and sell antique atlases, maps, sea charts, town plans, globes, topographical views, panoramas & prints.
Once a year up to forty specialist dealers from Europe, America and the UK gather here with a display of thousands of well researched items covering all parts of the world.

They bring their knowledge of antique maps, atlases, plans and prints, gathered during a combined experience of hundreds of years.

Buyers can be confident that items on display are genuine antique maps and prints, no facsimiles or reproductions.
There is no admission charge and everybody is made welcome. Our visitors include just browsers, those intending to make a single purchase to fill a gap on their wall or find a present, and enthusiasts and collectors who want to complete the collection of their chosen subject. 

Our exhibitors ensure that their maps are well presented and protected, so even the most expensive items can be handled safely.

Obviously, dealers can not bring their entire stock of maps and prints, so if you intend to visit the fair and have a specific request, please send us an  email  stating your particular interests and we will let our exhibitors know what to bring for you. 
London Map Fair Lectures in the Ondaatje Theatre on Saturday June 7 and Sunday June 8 at 14.30h:

Lectures will be held at 14.30h daily in the Ondaatje Theatre of the Royal Geographical Society, coinciding with the Map Fair held on Saturday from 12.00h-1900h and on Sunday from 10.00h-17.00h. All are welcome. Our distinguished inaugural guest speakers are Peter Barber and Laurence Worms.

Saturday June 7:  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 in London for use by Londoners. These reveal very different Londons from the images contained in the big maps. Taken together they provide an gripping commentary on Londoners and their relations with the wider world through the ages.

Sunday June 8:  Laurence Worms, Ash Rare Books & The London Rare Books School:  Fixing the Map Trade: The London of the 18th Century London 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.

Fair dates 2008                 Admission Tickets 2008