First Printing: The Antique Maps and Antique 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.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Antique Maps & Antique Prints News through Oct 31, 2006

Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

October 22, Philadelphia. The Geographic Revolution in Early America. 2:00 pm. Hosted by the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Also on the day of the lecture, the currrent exhibition at the Rare Book Department, Unimaginable Coasts: European Exploration and the Conquest of the Americas, will be open to the public from 1:00 - 5:00 pm.
Call the Rare Book Department for more information at 215-686-5416. (Pre-registration required).

October 26 - 28, Washington, D.C. Annual Meeting of the Philip Lee Phillips Society. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Reading Room, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Also on October 26, at 7:00 pm, Dr. John Rennie Short (Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), will deliver a lecture entitled Cartographic Encounters in the New World. Dr. Short looks at the role of Native Americans in the exploration and mapping of North America. For more information on this important three- day event, contact pvanee@loc.gov or call 202-707-8534.

Antique Maps & Prints Exhibitions

For a list of upcoming exhibitions, please visit our Exhibitions Schedule.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

October 21, Philadelphia. Philadelphia Antiquarian Book Fair. Fort Washington Expo Center, 1100 Virginia Drive, Philadelphia. For more information, call 214 757-1132.

October 22, Northampton, MA. Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust Street (Rt. 9), Northampton, Massachusetts. For more information, call 631-261-4590, or email flamingoshows@aol.com

October 27 -28, Houston, TX. Houston Book, Postcard & Paper Fair. Arabia Shrine Center, 2900 N. Braeswood, Houston, Texas. For more information, call 281-565-0771 or visit www.houstonshow.com



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