London Map Fair

The London Map Fair, established in 1980, is a two-day annual event traditionally held in June at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington in London.

It brings together around 40 leading international map dealers as exhibitors, and attracts hundreds of other dealers, curators and collectors from around the world. It is noted for being the largest specialist fair of its kind. Exhibitors offer a range of atlases, travel books, globes, nautical charts, town plans, topographical prints and related ephemera.

The fair also organizes lectures by cartographic experts, both mapsellers and academics. Guest speakers have included Peter Barber, former Head of Map Collections at the British Library; Laurence Worms, former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, and writer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane.

The fair also organizes talks on map collecting for beginners, held throughout the weekend.

The current organizers of the fair are Tim Bryars, Massimo de Martini and Rainer Voigt.