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Map-fair.com updates you about the Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, London, and Mantova map fairs. In addition, you will find info about book fairs, which include map dealers.
Paris Map Fair
November 22, 2025
Hotel Ambassador, 19 Bvd Hausmann, 75006 Paris, France. Thirty-three national and international map dealers. The fair is a one-day event. Free entry to the fair.
Map-Mart
This online catalog of fine and rare maps, sea charts, atlases, globes, prints, and atlases includes items provided by rare map dealers. All items are immediately available on a first-serve basis.
Amsterdam Map Fair
September 6, 2025
The second edition of the Amsterdam Map Fair will take place on Saturday 6 September, including thirty three national and international map dealers. The fair is a one-day event, including lectures.
Venice Map Fair
March 21 - 23, 2025
The map fair is a 3-day event. 20 map dealers will show a good selection of town plans of Venice maps of Italy and all the world. A limited number of booths are still available. Contact us now.
Mantova Libri Mappe Stampe
May 17-18, 2025
Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum, Mantova, Italy. The longest-running Italian event dedicated to the world of antiquarian books, prints and maps.
London Map Fair
June 7 & 8, 2025
Royal Geographical Society, London, England. Forty national and some international map dealers show an extensive range of 16th to 20th-century maps. With lectures.
Map-Tube
The page presents videos about old maps, map collecting, map making, influential mapmakers, map dealers and map lecture registrations.
Featured Listings
Loeb-Larocque
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent contained few mysteries or secrets by the seventeenth century. However, the mythical island of Frisland still appears between Iceland and Greenland. The map is decorated with ships and a sea monster on the sea, bears on northern Russia, and lions on North Africa.
€3.250
Paulus_Swaen
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by
Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But
despite many new regional maps the world map remained unchanged. For
some reason, Joan Blaeu's important wall map of 1648 was not immediately
adapted by his firm for atlas use.The New
World map prepared by Joan Blaeu for his eleven-volume 'Atlas Maior' in
1662 is, unlike its predecessor, in two hemispheres. Outside the twin
hemispheres at the top a...
$17.500
Loeb-Larocque
La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.
Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, Anno VI.Known as the Octopus Map ; the brooding presence of the Russian Empire depicted as a massive octopus, whose tentacles stretch out towards Europe. In this map, the Octopus has Turkey, Persia and Poland but has been wounded by Crimea and is being fought off by Germany.This map, by Grossi, followed the style created by Frederick...
€1.850
Rare_Maps
Hollandt: Hollandia quae olim Catthorum
One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Holland Produced in the Low Countries
$19.500
Papyro
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till San Remo and Corsica's west coast.Willem Barentsz (1560-1597) was a famous pilot, discoverer and cartographer. Author of 'Nieuwe Beschrhryvinghe ende caertboeck van de Midlantsche Zee', the first printed pilot-guide of the Mediterranean. It is considered the supplement of Waghenaer's 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt' for the Mediterranea...
€4.000
Recently Listed
Loeb-Larocque
Habiti delle Donne Venetiane . . .
Title page of the book Habiti delle Donne Venetiane" (Dress of Venetian Women) which consists of twenty numbered plates of ornately dressed women. This very decorative title page shows in to Rialto Bridge and in the center a bird's-eye plan of Venice.Giacomo Franco (1556-1620) was born and grew in Venice, where he used to work. He was the son of painter Giovanni-Battista Franco (1510-1561), with whom he began his artistic training at the age of eleven. He worked as a painter, engraver, woodcutte...
€950
Loeb-Larocque
La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.
Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, Anno VI.Known as the Octopus Map ; the brooding presence of the Russian Empire depicted as a massive octopus, whose tentacles stretch out towards Europe. In this map, the Octopus has Turkey, Persia and Poland but has been wounded by Crimea and is being fought off by Germany.This map, by Grossi, followed the style created by Frederick...
€1.850
Loeb-Larocque
Venise. 1700
Extremely rare panoramic broad sheet panoramic town-view of Venice with underneath in letter press a description of the town's history.The view measures more than 1 meter. The foreground is animated with a great variety of sailing vessels.The printer's address is dated 1699, but the tile has the date 1700. Most likely, Jaillot published the view to celebrate the turn of the century!
€20.000
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Loeb-Larocque
Venetia. [Venice ]
Very rare view of Venice published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gioseppe Rosaccio con brevita descritto".Several of the maps and plans resemble those in G. F. Camocio's "Isole famose", in particular the maps of the individual Greek islands, among which are Corfu, Crete, Cyprus, together with a map of Palestine and a view of Jerusalem.It is possible that many of the plates may originate from 1590-1597, wh...
€420
Mantova mapfair
Mantova Libri Mappe Stampe
May and September
2025 EDITIONS : May 17 - 18 / September 20 -21, 2025
Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum, Mantova, Italy.
It is the oldest antiquarian book fair in Italy. Mantova Libri Mappe Stampe (Mantua Books, Maps & Prints) carries on a tradition that started in 1975 when the first event in Italy, entirely dedicated to antique prints, maps and books was held in Mantova.
Over forty Italian and international exhibitors (including specialist bookshops with antique prints and maps dealers) have already confirmed their attendance at this year's renowned and most awaited fair.
Organized by : Elisabetta Casanova – Tel. +39 333 3308106 | mantovalibriestampe@gmail.com