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Established in 1980, the annual London Map Fair is a two day event traditionally held at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington. It is the largest Antique Map Fair in Europe and the most well established cartographic event of its kind in the world.

The event brings together around 50 leading international map dealers as well as hundreds of dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from around the world. Exhibitors offer a range of atlases, travel books, globes, nautical charts, town plans, topographical prints and related ephemera.

The fair also organizes lectures by notable cartographic specialists, dealers or collectors. These take place in the Ondaatje Theatre, inside the Royal Geographical Society building. Notable speakers have included the BBC explorer, broadcaster and presenter of Coast Nicholas Crane on the maps of Gerardus Mercator; Francis Herbert, former map-curator at the RGS-IBG; Laurence Worms, an antiquarian book dealer specialising in cartographic history; and Peter Barber, the Head of Map Collections at the British Library.

The current organisers of the fair are Tim Bryers, Massimo de Martini and Rainer Voigt.