The 2011 London Antique Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society Opens Tomorrow

LONDON.- The 2011 London Map Fair, taking place in the historic surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society, is the most established and largest antiquarian map fair in Europe: over forty of the leading national and international specialist map dealers will be exhibiting in June. Visitors to the fair will discover a vast selection of original antique maps covering the whole world and printed between the 15th and 19th centuries. Highlights include a map of the universe by seventeenth-century Venetian cartographer Coronelli, revealing the Nine Circles of Hell as described in Dante’s Divine Comedy, as well as a 19th century curiosity map of Europe depicting each country in the form of a caricature: the United Kingdom figures as an old crone. Other fine maps offered this year will include: an example of Ogilby’s innovative and incredibly detailed, 17th century road map, mar

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