Antique Map Fairs


	Missing and stolen rare maps database The missingmaps.info web site is a contribution to the effort to combat the theft of rare maps and atlases from map collections, libraries, rare maps dealers and antiquarian map collectors. The aim is to provide a venue where missing or stolen maps can be reported and listed in a way that makes it easy for anyone offered a map to check on whether it is might be stolen property. Anyone who suspects that they have been offered a stolen map can contact the possible owner via the web site.

London Map Fairs The London Map Fairs at the Rembrandt Hotel provides a forum for collectors, curators & dealers from all over the world to buy, sell or swap old atlases, maps & prints.

	Annual Miami International Map Fair The Miami International Map Fair is an annual event held each February in Miami, Florida, and presented by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. The fair brings together leading dealers, collectors, and experts of antique maps from around the world, providing a forum for sharing information and expertise and for building one's own map collection.

Cartographic Arts Luke and Patricia Vavra of Cartographic Arts have been selling antique maps for thirty years. They are members the Mercator Society (New York Public Library), the International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association (IAMA), the Washington Map Society, the Phillip Lee Phillips Society (Library of Congress), the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCOS) and the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA). Their stock is strongest in maps of America made prior to the American Civil War. However, they sell rare and antiquarian maps covering most parts of the world and most time periods, and often exhibit at map fairs in the USA and elsewhere.

	Heirloom Maps Based near Washington DC, Merlyn Reineke of Heirloom Maps offers a fine range of old, rare and decorative maps, that may be visited at map fairs and similar events in and near Washington DC. Heirloom Maps also provides a museum-quality framing service at highly competitive rates.

Clive A. Burden Ltd. This second-generation firm is a world leader in the sale of rare decorative prints, and antique maps and atlases, especially within the trade. Philip Burden is also the author of the definitive two volume treatise on the mapping of North America. Cive A. Burden's maps cover the period from incunabula to the late 1800s and they also carry both topographical and decorative prints, including botanical, bird and other natural history in addition to Vanity Fair caricatures. Books include atlases, illustrated and colour plate works. They exhibit at map fairs around the world.

	The Prime Meridian Located in Virginia and operated by Joel & Deborah Kovarsky, The Prime Meridian sells antiquarian maps and related books (atlases, history of cartography, selected reference books, etc.) on-line and at occasion book fairs around the world. Much reference and resource information for map collectors and rare map specialists is provided on their web site.