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24 & 25 November 2006 – 9th European Map Fair
Another good antique map fair coming up:
Details:
Friday 24 November 2006
open: 14.00 – 20.00
Saturday 25 November 2006
open: 11.00 – 17.00
GROTE KERK, BREDA
(The Netherlands)
In November 1998 The European Map Fair held its first exhibition in the Grote Kerk of Breda in the Netherlands.
The European Map Fair is organized by the Foundation of Historical Cartography of the Netherlands (Stichting Historische Cartografie van de Nederlanden). This foundation collects money to support historical map research and publications. The foundation is working closely with the Historical Map department at the University of Utrecht.
All the employees of the European Map Fair are working on a non profit base.
From the very first beginning the European Map Fair was a big success.
Dealers in old maps, atlasses and globes from all over Europe were very enthousiastic about the posibilities of the European Map Fair.The 14th century beautiful interior of the Grote Kerk was off course part of it. The Map Fair includes an exhibition about a historical map subject.
More info:
http://www.histocart.nl/
Preserving antique maps
After accumulating more and more antique maps and/or other objects, the next step is to preserve them in the most ideal way.
The following counts for most of the antique objects.
Keep in mind that direct light can damage your antique maps. Especially sunlight can have a devastating effect on your antique maps. Keep all maps away from direct sunlight or any strong light source. Extreme light can fasten the chemical process that damages your beloved antique.
The second point is the humidity. For optimal preservation the room’s humidity should not be to high neither low. Low humidity can dry out your wooden frames while high humidity makes it ideal for insects to breed fe.
Keeping the optimal balance is a must !
When you are feeling the humidity is a little to high in a certain exposure place, it may be enough to put on some light; That light will decrease humidity at that spot.
While you are searching a room with a good humidity, make sure that it has the right temperature. Mostly, the best temperature for your antique maps are the places in your home where it’s a little cooler than the rest of your home. Rooms with constant temperature change are to be avoided ( like your living room where the temperature is influenced by the constant heating and cooling down of doors opening and closing, day/evening/night, etc ) .
That’s it for today
More coming up soon !
11 November 2006 : PARIS MAP-FAIR
The fifth edition of this Map-fair will be held on November 11th. again in Hotel Ambassador, in the heart of Paris, just 2 minutes from the famous Opera Garnier and the major department stores, also located near Montmartre and the Louvre museum. The fair is organized by Loeb-Larocque and Agnès Talec.
Here is a list of participans:
Paris : LeBail-Weissert, Loeb-Larocque, Librairie Moorthamers, Monsieur le Prince, Hémisphères, Agnès Talec, Livres & vieux papiers, Didier Martinez.
London: Shapero Gallery, Clive A.Burden Ltd, IMCoS, Imago Mundi.
U.S.A. : Graham Arader III Galleries , Jo-ann & Richard Casten, – New York. Paulus Swaen – Indian Rocks.
Spain :Gonzales Pontes – Madrid.
The Netherlands : Asher & Co.B.V. – IJmuiden, Paul Peters, Iris Globes – Almen, Silverenberg Galleries – Eindhoven, Antiquariaat Plantijn, Breda, Canaletto Publishers – Alphen a/d Rijn.
Belgique : Sanderus – Gent, BIMCC – Bruxelles.
Germany : Robert Berg – Regensburg, Nikolaus Strück – Berlin, Adina Sommer – Munich, Gebr. Haas – Bedburg-Hau, Antiquariat Holgar Christoph – Bonn, Schmidt & Green – Wuppertal.
Italy : Old Times – Perugia, Stampe Antiche Enotria Antiqua – Moio – Alcantara.
Austria : Johannes Müller – Salzburg
Librarians: maps are missing
A month after a notorious thief admitted to stealing five antique maps from Yale, librarians said they recently discovered that 78 more rare maps are missing from the University’s collection.
The missing titles, identified in an inventory taken over the winter, were privately released to members of the map-trading community last week. University Librarian Alice Prochaska said the thefts occurred over many years and seem unrelated to the case against Edward Forbes Smiley III, who was caught raiding the Beinecke Library last July.
Interesting article
I found this article somewhere on the web:
On the uppermost floor of Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building is a room where time has stopped. In the north-western corner is Louis Kissajukian’s Antique Print Room, with its vintage maps, associated engravings and prints. The prevailing flavour is of the 17th century, when the world as we know it was still being discovered.
Maps produced in this period were very much works in progress, especially when it came to what would later be called Australia. Some maps show only one coastline, with the rest of the continent an educated guess. Some suggest that Australia was connected to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Tasmania was thought to be part of the mainland.
The shop is a mecca for map enthusiasts around Australia and the rest of the world, judging by the international customers who seem to know of this place more than we locals do.
If you would like to read the complete article, you can find it over here
If, when you finished reading this article, would like to have a look at more maps from Ortelius, you can do so here.
More updates on antique new, coming up
New blog found
I found another blog writing about antique maps:
http://antiquemaps.blogspot.com/
Might be interesting to take a look
Looking for writers
I’m looking for people who are willing to write little articles about antique maps.
Please comment in this article and I will contact you to give access to this blog.
Here’s what I found
I found some website where you can buy antique maps directly from the internet:
If anyone has some other good websites where you can buy antique maps, please let me know
Taking care of antiquarian books
Many of the caveats associated with the care of furniture can also be applied to the care of old books. Although tolerant of a fairly wide range of humidity and temperature, wide variations must be avoided: as well as the simple expansion and contraction which can break joints of books, the different materials in a binding will move at different rates, often leading to serious problems of warping.
The most delicate part of the construction of a book is the joint or hinge, which not only takes the load of the opened cover, but also is the thinnest and least reinforced part of the leather. The joints in particular suffer from drying out, the first symptoms of which are small areas of friable and usually white damage. To minimise this and other problems of a dry atmosphere, a regular but not obsessive application of a mild leather dressing such as Marney’s Conservation Dressing, which typically contain lanolin, neatsfoot and beeswax, is recommended. Always try it out on an inconspicuous area of the book, apply very lightly at first, never use on sheep or reversed calf, both of which have a suede-like finish.
Problems of excessive humidity are usually more evident, but beware of made-to-measure shelving which can often cover damp walls: it is quite common to find a library of books which appear fine from the spines, but where all the fore-edges will be badly dampstained, often with subsequent fungal problems.
The least understood enemy of books is light. Not only does over-bright natural light fade books, but it also accelerates the drying process, which can be minimised by ultra-violet resistant films applied to windows, or by keeping curtains closed on bright days. When shelving books avoid leaving them at an angle, which can twist the bindings more-or-less permanently.
When it comes to handling books, always support the front cover when you open it, and never leave it dangling supported by its own weight. Never pull a book off a shelf by putting a finger on the headcap at the top of the spine. Most leather bindings are not harmed by averagely sweaty hands, but be very careful with nineteenth century cloth bindings and twentieth century dust-jacketed books. For these it is sensible to follow the example of the trade and cover them in loose jackets of a stable transparent material such as mylar or acetate, which is available in rolls from graphics supply stores. Secure these jackets simply by folding the material around the fore-edges of the books, to allow some circulation of air under the material, and do not use any adhesive or tape, even if just applied to the jacket itself, for it is likely to stain the opposite endpaper.
If the covers come off, or pages become loose, do not attempt a repair yourself without proper training. Nearly all sorts of tape and many types of glue are inimical to books, and it is far better to preserve a book in pieces for restoration later than to bodge a repair, no matter how well-meaning.
src: b.a.d.a advice
