First Printing: The Antique Maps and Prints Blog

First Printing is a weekly blog devoted to antique maps and antique prints. We announce meetings, events, exhibitions, etc. We also list upcoming auctions and antiquarian bookfairs. Please email us if you want to announce an event.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Antique Maps & Antique Prints News

Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

September 15-16, New Haven, Connecticut. Mapping The Worlds of Sixteenth Century Mexico. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. A symposium sponsored by the Beinecke, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies of the Yale Center of International and Area Studies, and the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Free, open to public, but registration is required.

September 21, Edinburgh. Discovering North Britain: Early Maps of Scotland. The National Library of Scotland. For information, call 0131-623-3845 or email library events.

September 21, Washington DC. Washington Map Society Meeting. 7:00 pm, Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, Washington, DC. Mr. Don Hawkins, architect and expert in eighteenth century geography of Washington, D.C. will present The L'Enfant Plan: Idea to Landscape. For more information, call 301-320-0500 x450, or email Dennis Gurtz.

Antique Maps & Antique Prints Ongoing Exhibitions

For information on a wide range of current exhibitions, please visit the Exhibitions Page at Vintage World Antique Maps & Prints.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

September 15-16, Denver, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair. The 6th Annual fair, at Denver Central Library, 13th Avenue & Broadway, Denver, Colorado. Friday 5 pm - 8 pm; Saturday 9 am - 5 pm.

September 15-17, New York City. International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Book Fair 2006. Jacob Javits Convention Center, 11th Avenue between 35th and 37th Streets, New York City. Email Lana at Sanford Smith for more information.

Auction Calendar

September 6-20. Old World Auctions. Online Auction.

September 12, Oxford, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps.

September 14, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Rare Books & Manuscripts.

September 16-26. Paulus Swaen Old Maps & Prints. Online Auction.


Are we missing an event or an auction? We'd love to know. If you know of something upcoming that we missed, please email us.


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