• Antique Map Dealers (with separate sections for US and International Dealers - Antique Map Price Record)
• 'Sellers of Cartographic Material: Antiquarian' (Oddens' Bookmarks - use the special antiquarian search option to retrieve them as a group, or search under the country concerned - though note that this site is no longer being maintained)
• '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-Castaņeda Library Map Collection)
• dmoz Open Directory [evidently repeated on the equivalent Google listing]
• 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)

In Summer 2002, the International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association (IAMA) was set up. Its site includes a growing list of members, information about map thefts, etc.

One London dealer, Altea Maps & Books, has been issuing their catalogue on CD-ROM since 1999. The New York dealer, Richard B Arkway, Inc., leaves their former catalogues on the web, indefinitely.

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.
• Denver: Annual Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair at Denver Public Library, in September
• 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.
• Paris: Paris Map-Fair, in November

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.

There are a number of online auctions, featuring maps, which can be retrieved from Oddens' Bookmarks [enter, separately 'auction', 'auctions' - though note that this site is no longer being maintained]. 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. An online version is planned for 2007. 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).]

• Antique Map Price Record (Cambridge, MA: MapRecord Publications). [All volumes now available on a single, cumulated CD-ROM, covering 1983-present, and running to 113,500, easily searchable records. A priced listing of maps passing through selected auction houses and dealers. From 2006, the CD includes high resolution 'reference images', e.g. from the Library of Congress and David Rumsey Collection. In 2007, a Map Collection Manager was added. 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 now 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.]

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). Alternatively, Oldmaps.com offers a charged 'Price Finder'. At September 2001, it contained "16,000 entries, representing over 1,000 mapmakers, compiled from the offerings of over 100 dealer and auction catalogs". 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