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

Roderick M Barron

 

Some Recent Acquisitions

Portrait of Romeyne de Hooghe 1733

Price: £ 225

An attractive early 18th Century portrait of the important Dutch engraver, etcher and illustrator, Romeyne de Hooghe [1745-1708]

 

Portrait of Vincenzo Coronelli c.1700

Price: £ 300

Rare late 17th or early 18th Century portrait of the famous Franciscan priest and Italian globe and map maker, Vincenzo Coronelli [1650-1718]

 

Portrait of Malthe Conrad Bruun (Conrad Malte-Brun) c.1860

Price: £ 150

A rare youthful portrait of the controversial Danish-born journalist, Malthe Conrad Bruun who later moved to France and changed his name, becoming the renowned French geographer and cartographer, Conrad Malte-Brun [1755-1826]

 

Double portrait of Gerard Mercator & Jodocus Hondius 1613-

Price: £ 2350

Splendid double-portrait of two of the founding fathers of cartography - Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius - included in editions of the Mercator-Hondius Atlases from 1613 onwards.

 

Augustin Hirschvogel Self-Portrait 1548

Price: £ 1750

A superbly engraved 1548 self-portrait of the important 16th Century German artist, mathematician and cartographer, Augustin Hirschvogel [1503-1553].

 

Portrait of Christoph Weigel the Elder 1714

Price: £ 750

Bernard Vogel's superbly executed 1714 mezzotint portrait of Nuremberg artist, engraver, publisher and mapmaker, Christoph Weigel the Elder [1654-1725]

 

Double portrait of Jacob von Sandrart & his wife c.1708

Price: £ 575

Exceptionally rare double portrait of the German engraver and cartographer Jacob von Sandrart [1630-1708] & his wife Regina Christina [1636-1708]  engraved by Augsburg engraver Bernard Vogel, after a painting by the Nuremberg artist, J Hirschmann. 

 

Portrait of Jacob le Maire 1622

Price: £ 485

A rare and important portrait of the Dutch circumnavigator, Jacob le Maire [c1585-1616] first published in Antonio de Herrera's 1622 account of his voyage.

 

Portrait of Pieter Schenck c.1697

Price: £ 500

An extremely rare and significant self-portrait of the Dutch sculptor, etcher, engraver and map maker, Pieter Schenck [1660-1718/19]

 

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

Price: £ 850

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

 

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.

 

Breitkopf Map of the Kingdom of Love (Das Reich der Liebe) 1777/1795

Price: £ 865

A mid-1790's reissue of Johann Breitkopf's famous allegorical map of the Kingdom of Love (Das Reich der Liebe), first published in 1777.

 

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.

 

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

 

 
 
 
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