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.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Antique Maps & Antique Prints News through Nov. 24, 2006

Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

November 16, Chicago. The Chicago Map Society. 5:30 p.m. Newberry Library for members' show and tell. Bring your maps and discuss with other map enthusiasts. Call the Smith Center at 312-255-3659 if you'd like to participate.

November 16, Washington, D.C. The Washington Map Society meets at 7:00 p.m. in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, level B, Madison Bldg., 101 Independence Avenue. Kim Martineau, a staff reporter for the Hartford Courant, will discuss her extensive coverage of convicted antique map thief E. Forbes Smiley. For more information, please call Ed Redmond at 202-707-8548, or email him directly.

November 23, London. Maps and Society Series at the University of London's Warburg Institute. Malcolm Bishop will discuss The 1518 map in Sir Thomas More's Utopia: Dentistry Solves the Mystery. For more information, email Tony Campbell.

November 24 - 25, Breda, The Netherlands. 9th European Map Fair.

Antique Maps & Prints Exhibitions

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


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

November 17 - 19, Boston. 30th Anniversary Boston International Book Fair. Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street.

November 18, Boston. Boston Book, Print, & Ephemera Show. Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart Street. For information, email bbshows@aol.com

November 24 - 25 Wilmington, Delaware. Delaware Book & Ephemera Fair. Chase Center on the Riverfront, 800 South Madison Street, Wilmington. For information email flamingoshows@aol.com

Auction Calendar

November 15, London. Christies. Important Cartography, Atlases, Maps, and Globes.

November 16, London. Sothebys. Valuable Printed Books & Maps.

November 19, Boston. Skinner. Fine Books & Manuscripts.

November 20 - December 6. Old World Auctions. Online auction of Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics.

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