• Antique Map Dealers (with separate sections for US and International Dealers - Antique Map Price Record)
• 'Large Map Dealer Sites' (listing about 40 dealer sites which include a good selection of online maps, i.e. more than 100 images)
• Map Dealers - Antiquarian Maps (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
• dmoz Open Directory
• Antique map dealers (Yahoo)
• The Collecting Network
• 'Book search engines on the web: use for map-related materials' (for maps offered on the various book search sites)
• International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (providing links to antiquarian booksellers [some of whom sell maps] around the world). See also the 'Dealers' section of the Theft Links page
• Antikbooks (likewise linking to antiquarian booksellers around the world)
• List of Dealers in Fine Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Maps (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America)
• French dealers: select 'Engraving - Prints - Maps' (France Antiques)

For a general, published directory, see Sheppard's International Directories of Ephemera, Prints and Maps, 4th edition (Farnham, Surrey: Richard Joseph, 1999). ISBN 1-872699-68-5.

For instructions on joining the Map Trade discussion list, where catalogues are announced and maps offered, see Other discussion lists. Postings to the list are placed in the archive. If your interest is in second-hand Ordnance Survey maps, the Charles Close Society issued the first 'informal listing' of dealers in such material in December 2001.

See general comments on Buying maps, and Fakes, forgeries & facsimiles likely to deceive.

Besides regional map fairs, or book fairs including map dealers, there are now several annual international map fairs. For information on these see MapFair.com, or individually:-

• Breda: European Map Fair, organised by Stichting Historische Cartografie van de Nederlanden (SHCN), in late November.
• Chicago: Chicago International Map Fair. A two-day fair, first held at the Primitive Gallery, 130 N. Jefferson Street, in late September 2013.
• Denver: The Rocky Mountain Map Society organises the Map Fair of the West , at Denver Public Library
• London: The 'London Map Fair' (formerly Bonnington Map Fair) took over in 2004 the organisation of the June fair previously organised by the International Map Collectors' Society
• Miami: Annual International Miami Map Fair, held at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, in January or February.
• Milan: Milano Map Fair, a one-day fair, first held on 16 March 2103 at the Hotel Michelangelo.
• Paris: Paris Map-Fair, in November
• Putten: Antique Map Fair Netherlands (AMF-NL) [formerly held at Castle Staverden] now at Castle De Vanenburg at Putten, near Amersfoort, in September-October [first time in 2010]
• Sint-Niklaas: International Map Fair, organised by Stedelijk musea van Sint-Niklaas, in August

There is also an Antiquarian Book and Map Fair in Amsterdam in March - further details from Leen Helmink <helmink(at)helmink.com>.

FUTURE:-

Neil Street posts a weekly 'Auction Preview' on First Printing: The Antique Maps and Prints Blog. Increasingly, auction houses are posting details of forthcoming sales, with sample descriptions. You can also check MapForum, which includes selected items from selected forthcoming sales.

Sotheby's held their first on-line auction in June 2000. AuctionBytes.com claims to be the 'the essential buyers' and sellers' guide to online auctions and collectibles'.

• American Book Prices Current ([Washington, D.C.:] Bancroft-Parkman). [Founded 1895. From 2005 it has been issued on a single cumulative CD-ROM, covering the period from 1975. The earlier printed form was an annual listing of material coming through the world's major auction houses, with indexes at irregular intervals. See in Part I (MSS) under 'Maps & Charts' and Part II (Books) under 'Atlas' and 'Maps' (arranged by region). As its webpage explains: 'ABPC is not just a transcribed record of titles and prices, copied unquestioningly from the season's auction catalogues. ABPC is the standard tool used by dealers, appraisers, auction houses, scholars and tax authorities. It is, moreover, the only work in English in which each listing of printed material has been checked as to title, format, date of publication, edition, and limitation.']

• Antique Map Price Guide see next entry

• Antique Map Price Record. [Published, from 2012, by OldMaps.com (Curt and Marti Griggs), as a priced listing of over 150,000 records of maps that passed through selected auction houses and dealers - as a result of the merging of the 138,000 entries on the former Antique Map Price Record (linked to 40,000 high-resolution images, e.g. from the the Library of Congress and David Rumsey Collection) and the 60,000 on OldMaps.com's 'Antique Map Price Guide'. What had been a cumulative annual listing from 1983 (on CD-ROM from 2002) will now be accessible via online subscription. Formerly: David C. Jolly, Antique Maps, Sea Charts, City Views, Celestial Charts and Battle Plans: Price Guide and Collectors' Handbook, produced latterly by Jon & Bernice Rosenthal, and from 2002-11 by Jeremy Pool.]

• Book Auction Records (Folkestone: Dawson). [Founded 1902. Annual listing of material coming through the world's major auction houses, with indexes at irregular intervals. Ceased publication after 1997. Cartographic entries grouped under 'atlases' and a separate section 'printed maps, charts and plans'. This was dropped for the 1997 volume.]

• Imago Mundi. The International Journal for the History of Cartography. [Section 6 of the annual 'Chronicle' (by Ashley Baynton-Williams) lists (without giving prices) rare and important items that have come up for sale, via auctions or dealers. Section 5 lists notable acquisitions, arranged by institution.]

• Map World's Antique Map Catalogue For Collectors (listing 25,000 printed maps up to 1850 - announced May 2010)

H!IBCoR Grading System for Antique maps, old prints, books, posters offers an 'Antique Map Price and high resolution image source' to 'auction results of 10000+ antique maps...'. You have to register for estimated prices or high resolution images.

A review in The Portolan 79 (Winter 2010), pp.43-4 by Leigh Lockwood about 'Map World's Catalogue of Antique Maps 1472-1850', produced a reply from its publisher and that, in turn, one from Jeremy Pool, producer of the 'Antique Map Price Record', to which the former had been compared (pp.45-6).

If you want to compare the prices that are being asked for maps, check out the inventories of the dealers listed on the 'web images' page under 'Larger Image Sites (dealers). For further links see Historic Atlas and Map Valuation and Conservation (from Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Stanford University Libraries).

For detailed and expert comments see Joel Kovarsky's Book search engines on the web: use for map-related materials