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Welcome to the Website of Roderick M Barron, private antiquarian map dealers.

We are based in Sevenoaks in Kent, 20 miles south east of London.

We have been involved in the antiquarian map trade for over 25 years. Our business was first established in 1989.

We are members of  the English Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA); the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS).

Please feel free to contact us with any specific questions or inquiries - we would be delighted to hear from you.

We are always interested in purchasing specific items of new stock, particularly the sort of material reflected in our current "Recent Acquisitions" listings. If you have similar material that you would like to have appraised or wish to sell, do please get in touch. We will always try to respond promptly.

We hope you enjoy our site & thank you for visiting. 

Roderick M Barron

 

Some Recent Acquisitions

Seutter Map of Love c.1730

Price: £ 2000

Matthaus Seutter's rare early 18th Century allegorical map depicting the Assault of Love on Man's besieged Island fortress.

 

Balbinus Rose map of Bohemia 1677

Price: £ 2250

Wolfgang Kilian's superb Rose map of Bohemia, based on the design of Christoph Vetter and published in Jesuit Bohuslav Balbinus' 1677 History of Bohemia.

 

Lilian Lancaster's Caricature map of Scotland 1869

Price: £ 550

Lilian Lancaster's wonderfully evocative caricature map of Scotland, in the form of kilted Highlander, from Geographical Fun [Hodder and Stoughton, London 1869]

 

Lilian Lancaster's Caricature Map of Ireland 1869

Price: £ 550

Lilian Lancaster's wonderfully imaginative caricature map of Ireland, in the form of an Irish countrywoman and her baby, from Geographical Fun [Hodder and Stoughton, London 1869]

 

Lilian Lancaster's Caricature Map of Italy 1869

Price: £ 500

Lilian Lancaster's superb caricature map of Italy, in the personfication of Guiseppe Garibaldi, from Geographical Fun [Hodder and Stoughton, London 1869] 

 

Lilian Lancaster's Caricature Map of Russia 1869

Price: £ 500

A superb caricature map of Russia from Lilian Lancaster's increasingly scarce Geographical Fun [Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1869]

 

Macdonald Gill Wonderground Map of London Town (smaller version) 1914

Price: £ sold

Macdonald (Max) Gill's increasingly scarce early 20th Century "Wonderground" map, a comic cartographic celebration of London Town.

 

Braun & Hogenberg Edinburgh c1581

Price: £ 1125

Braun & Hogenberg's finely engraved bird's eye view of the Scottish Capital Edinburgh during the time of Mary Queen of Scots

 

K Lehmann-Dumont Humoristische Karte von Europa 1914

Price: £ sold

A wonderfully designed separately published German cartoon map of Europe published at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

 

Bacon-Johnson Riddle Dogs of War 1914

Price: £ sold

A wonderful political caricature map with distinctly canine credentials, depicting the "Dogs of War" at the outbreak of European hostilities in late 1914.

 

Fred Rose Angling in Troubled Waters 1899

Price: £ sold

Fred Rose's famous caricature map of Europe in the last year of the 19th Century

 

Fred Rose Octopus Map 1877

Price: £ sold

A German edition of Fred Rose's amusing "Octopus" map of Europe 1877

 

Berendsohn Europe War Map c1856

Price: £ sold

Scarce German caricature map detailing the European political situation at the time of the Crimean War

 

 
 
 
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