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

More information can be found here

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.

Read the complete article

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