November 21, 2015 Arader Galleries Auction Prices Realized

      We are thrilled to announce Arader Galleries’ final auction of the year was an outstanding success. The sale featured 217 lots including a stunning selection of Audubon’s birds and quadrupeds, a collection of America’s finest and most important maps from the Ben Carter Collection, as well as a varied offering of natural history and western material. The auction achieved $1,410,683, putting the total for our auctions in 2015 at just under $13 million. As a result of Saturday’s sale alone, we have raised over $60,000 for the teaching program at the University of South Carolina.

      Friday preceding the auction, the gallery hosted an exciting evening featuring an outstanding educational lecture by Arader Galleries’ own rare book expert, Kate Hunter. The lecture detailed the varied nuances of collecting natural history color plate books including provenance, condition, and market availability.  

       Highlights of the sale on Saturday included, Audubon’s Snowy Heron (Lot 6) achieving an impressive price of $103,000. Following an exciting back and forth between bidders in the room and on the phone, the Golden Eagle (Lot 1) sold for $21,960. The Northern Winter Hare (Lot 22) achieved $2,196, the top performer for Audubon’s quadrupeds. Other natural history works of note were Nicolas Huet’s original watercolor of a Martin-Chasseur Lazuli (Lot 24), selling for $12,200 and a stunning group of original watercolors (Lots 74-78) by the father of Indian botany, William Roxburgh, which, together achieved over $200,000.
      
        The Ben Carter collection of historic and important maps of America was highly successful, with the highlight being Henry Popple’s Map of British Empire in America…(Lot 83) which sold for $128,000.  Other maps and views performing well were Thomas Holme’s Mapp of Ye Improved part of Pennsylvania… (Lot 93), which sold for $30,500, a beautiful Curier & Ives print entitled, Whale Fishery or Sperm Whale ‘in a flurry’ (Lot 133), sold for $6,100, and a charming hand-colored engraving of a Panorama of Washington D.C. (Lot 139) sold for $5,490.


          Arader Galleries’ next auction will be on January 23rd of 2016. The material already has some amazing examples from Audubon’s Birds of America in store, as well as works by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Heinrich Bunting and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. As usual, the sale will include other fine maps, rare books and natural history works on paper from the finest artists in American and European history. With your help we hope to make 2016 as successful as a year as 2015 was!

Complete Prices Realized Below:

Lot Artist Title  Price Realized 
1 John James Audubon  Golden Eagle, Plate 181.  $      21,960.00
2 John James Audubon  Bird of Washington, Plate 11.  $      11,590.00
3 John James Audubon  Meadowlark, Plate 136.  $      31,720.00
4 John James Audubon  Baltimore Oriole, Plate 12.  $      10,980.00
5 John James Audubon  Great White Heron, Plate 281.  $      54,900.00
6 John James Audubon  Snowy Heron. Plate 242.  $    103,700.00
8 John James Audubon  Blue Heron, Plate 307.  $      51,240.00
10 John James Audubon  Standing Brown Pelican, Plate 251.  $      88,450.00
11 John James Audubon  Mango Hummerbird, Plate 184.  $         2,318.00
12 John James Audubon  Purple Grackle, Plate 7.  $         6,100.00
13 John James Audubon  Black-Billed Cuckoo, Plate 32.  $         6,250.00
14 John James Audubon  Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Plate 2.  $         4,575.00
15 John James Audubon  Canada Otter (Male), Plate 122.  $            976.00
16 John James Audubon  Canada Otter, Plate 51.  $            976.00
17 John James Audubon  American White Wolf, Plate 72.  $            518.50
18 John James Audubon  Franklin's Marmot Squirrel,
Plate 84.
 $            305.00
19 John James Audubon  Red Bellied Squirrel, 38.  $            366.00
20 John James Audubon  Pennants Marten, Plate 41.  $            579.50
21 John James Audubon  Black Squirrel, Plate 34.  $            610.00
22 John James Audubon  Northern Hare (Winter), Plate 12.  $         2,196.00
23 Jean-Gabriel Pretre  Himalayan Piroll Chasseur or (Cissa chinenis).  $             -  
24 Nicolas Huet (c.1770-1828) Martin-chasseur Lazuli or (Todirhamphus lazuli).  $       12,200.00
25 Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) Platypus Antinus.  $         4,880.00
26 William Home Lizars
(1788-1859)
Callithrix Sciureus (Common Squirrel Monkey)  $            335.50
27 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Axis. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes.  $              91.50
28 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Axis, femelle. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammife  $            366.00
29 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Biche du Cerf commun, et son faon.  $            152.50
30 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Cerf de Virginie.  $            183.00
31 By Frederic Cuvier
 and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Chien Levrier.  $               -  
32 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Chien de Eskimaux de la Baie de Baffin.  $              61.00
33 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Chien de Terre Neuve.  $              61.00
34 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Dogue de Fort Race.  $                   -  
35 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Sajou Bun, femelle.  $              73.20
36 By Frederic Cuvier
and Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Vouwou, female.  $                   -  
37 S. A. Kilbourne (1836-1881) The Spanish Mackerel  $           244.00
38 S. A. Kilbourne (1836-1881) The Mackerel  $            183.00
39 S. A. Kilbourne (1836-1881) The Pompano  $            122.00
40 William Houghton Burbot  $              61.00
41 Albert Seba (1665-1736) Tab. CII (102)  $            610.00
42 Albert Seba (1665-1736) Tab. LXXXIIII (84)  $            274.50
43 Albert Seba (1665-1736) Tab. CIIII (104)  $            549.00
44 Albert Seba (1665-1736) Tab. LXXXVI (86)  $            518.50
45 A. Pope Jr. (1849-1924) The Canada Grouse  $            125.00
46 A. Pope Jr. (1849-1924) The Upland Plover  $                  -  
47 A. Pope Jr. (1849-1924) The Mountain Quail  $                   -  
48 A. Pope Jr. (1849-1924) The Pinnated Grouse or Prairie Chickens  $            122.00
49 A. Pope Jr. (1849-1924) The Greater Scaup Duck  $            183.00
50 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) Baltimore Bird, T. 48.  $                   -  
51 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) Summer Red Bird, T. 56.  $         3,660.00
52 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) White-headed Eagle, T. 1.  $         2,440.00
53 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) American Gold Finch, T. 43.  $         1,830.00
54 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) The Heath Hen, Plate 1 from the Appendix  $         5,795.00
55 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) Copper-Bellied Snake, Pl. 46.  $                   -  
56 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) The Bahama Finch, T. 42.  $         1,830.00
57 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) The Crested Flycatcher, T. 52.  $         1,830.00
58 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) The Whip-poor-whill, Plate 16 of Appendix.  $         1,830.00
59 Mark Catesby (1679-1749) The Fox Coloured Thresh, T. 28.  $         1,708.00
60 Joseph Wolf The Wapiti Deer
(Cervus Canadensis).
 $                  -  
61 William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) V. Equis Burcjellii
- Burchell's Zebra
 $            457.50
62 Pierre François Legrand (Active late 18th- Early 19th Centuries), After Gérard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) Fleurs Dessin‚ d'apres
Nature: Two Plates
 $            488.00
63 William Sharp Plate 2, from "Victoria Regia or the Great Water Lily  $         3,660.00
64 Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) and Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). Opening Flower, Open Flower, Analyses, Entire Lily  $       13,420.00
65 Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) The Stag at Bay  $         2,440.00
66 Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) Victor of the Glen  $                   -  
67 Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) The Drive: Shooting Deer
on the pass....
 $         2,440.00
68 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Nanodes Undulatus/Undulated Parrakeet  $                   -  
69 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Platycercus Barnardi/Barnards Parakeet  $         3,050.00
70 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Platycercus Unicolor/Uniform Parakeet  $                   -  
71 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Psittacula Torquata/Collared Pararkeet  $         2,440.00
72 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Psittacara Leptorhyncha/Long-billed Parakeet Macca  $         3,355.00
73 Edward Lear (1812-1888) Trichoglossus Rubritorquis/Scarlet Collared Parake  $                   -  
74 William Roxburgh (1751-1815) Amamum Angustifolium (6)  $       48,800.00
75 William Roxburgh (1751-1815) Canna Caccinea (22)  $       48,800.00
76 William Roxburgh (1751-1815) Canna Sativa (23)  $       48,800.00
77 William Roxburgh (1751-1815) Justica Botanica (35)  $       33,550.00
78 William Roxburgh (1751-1815) Calexookia Mazantina (16)  $       39,650.00
79 E. A. Brooke (fl. 1844-1864) The Trellis Window Threntham Hall Gardens/ The Sea  $                 -  
80 E. A. Brooke (fl. 1844-1864) The Parterre, Castle Howard/The Seat of his Excell  $            579.50
81 Robert Furber (1674-1756) February from Twelve Months of Fruit  $            488.00
82 Peter Gordon A View of Savannah as it stood..the 29th of March, 1734  $       48,800.00
83 Henry Popple (d. 1743) Map of British Empire in America  $     128,100.00
84 John Mitchell A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America  $       85,400.00
85 John Melish (1771-1822) Map of the United States with the contiguous British...  $       12,200.00
86 Daniel Sturges (c.1765-1823)
 & Samuel Harrison
Map of the State of Georgia, Prepared from actual surveys  $       42,700.00
87 William Barden (1740-1803)
 & Thomas Merriot Bardin (1768-1819)
New British Terrestrial Globe & New British Celestial Globe  $       24,400.00
88 John Disturnell (1801-1877) Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico  $       42,700.00
89 Robert Sayer (1725-1794) and John Bennett (D. 1787) The Theatre of War in North America, with the Road  $         7,320.00
90 Matteus Seutter (1678-1756) Plan Von Neu Ebenezer and Part of Carolina  $         7,320.00
91 Amos Lay Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York  $         2,440.00
92 William Faden (1750 - 1836) A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York  $         1,586.00
93 Thomas Holme (1624-1695) A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pennsylvania in Amer  $       30,500.00
94 John Farmer Map of the Surveyed Part of Michigan  $         2,440.00
95 Henricus Hondius (1573-1650) Nova Virginiae Tabula  $         2,745.00
96 Pieter van den Keere (1571-1646) Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrogra  $       10,980.00
97 Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 – 1611) The description of the coast of Abex, The Straight  $         2,440.00
98 Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Turingia Noviss. Descript. Per Iohannem Mellinger  $            109.80
99 Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Mansfeldiae Comitatus Descriptio auctore Tilemanno  $            183.00
100 Frederik De Wit (1630-1706) Platte Grondt der Stadt London met Nieuw Model en  $         1,830.00
101 Pierre Mortier (1661-1711) Ancona/ Ville de l'Etat de l'Eglise  $                   -  
102 Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) after Caspar Vopel Map of the Rhine  $       14,640.00
103 Willem Blaeu (1571-1638) Venezuela, cum parte Australi Nov‘ Andalusi‘  $            500.00
104 Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada (1820-1898) Isla de Puerto Rico  $         4,880.00
105 Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) Morea olim Pelopennesus  $            396.50
106 Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Persici Sive Sophorum Regni Typus  $            457.50
107 The French School View of a Neoclassical Building and Colonade  $         7,930.00
108 Edward William Payton (1859-1944) Lake Rotorua, Hot Lake Country, New Zealand  $                   -  
109 John William Hill (1812-1879) From Fishkill  $                   -  
110   French View of the Port of Portsmouth  $       23,180.00
111 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Corporum Coelestium Magnitudines  $         2,440.00
112 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Tychonis Brahe Calculus, Planetarum Cursus et Alti  $                   -  
113 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Solis Circa Orbem Terrarum Spiralis Revolutio  $         1,830.00
114 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Typus Seleno Graphicus Lunae Phases et Aspectus Va  $                   -  
115 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Planisphaerium Capernicanum Sive Systema Universi  $         2,745.00
116 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum Sive Machina Orbium Mun  $                   -  
117 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Planisphaerium Arateum Sive Compages Orbium Mundan  $         3,660.00
118 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Typus Aspectuum, Oppositionum et Conjunctionum etz  $         2,440.00
119 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui, Cumzonis, Circulis et  $                   -  
120 Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)  Situs Terrae Circulis Coelestibus Circundatae  $         2,500.00
121 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Draco  $            671.00
122 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Hydra  $            687.50
123 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Piscis  $            976.00
124 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Cetus  $            687.50
125 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Lupus  $                   -  
126 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Perseus  $            854.00
127 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Hercules  $            671.00
128 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Auriga  $                   -  
129 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Orion  $            687.50
130 Johann Bayer (1572 - 1625) Aquila  $            687.50
131 Sachse & co. View of Baltimore City, Md. From the North.  $         5,490.00
132 E. Camerer View of that Portio of the City of San Francisco S  $         7,320.00
133 Currier & Ives Whale Fishery/Sperm Whale 'in a flurry'  $         6,100.00
134 Horace Waters Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa  $              61.00
135 Chas P. Ulrich (1835-1907) Cincinnati, USA  $            732.00
136 Currier & Ives Com. Andrew H. Foot, The Hero of Ft. Henry  $              62.50
137 Currier & Ives Gen. James A. Garfield, 20th President of the Unit  $              48.80
138 N. Currier James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States  $              61.00
139 Charles Magnus Panorama of Washington/First in War, First in Peace  $         5,490.00
140 Benjamin West (1738-1820) & John Hall (1739-1797) William Penn's Treaty with the Indians when he fou  $         1,220.00
141 Eugenio Latilla (1808-1861) & Thomas Doney (fl. 1844-1852) Cornwallis is Taken! The Watchman's Cry. Philadelp  $            610.00
142 after William S. Mount (1807-1868) Coming to the Point  $         3,050.00
143 George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) & John Sartain (1808-1897) The County Election  $         4,880.00
144 William Barnard After George Morland Morland's Summer  $            976.00
145 William Ward (1766-1826) After George Morland (1763-1804) Ale-house Politicians  $         1,220.00
146 William Barnard After George Morland Morland's Winter  $                   -  
147 J. R. Smith After George Morland Number 9, Milk Maid and Cow Herd  $            915.00
148 Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) The Appointment / Good Morning Gent's  $            854.00
149 Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) In Full Cry / Yoi Forward  $                   -  
150 Painted by Anson A. Martin The Bedale Hunt / To Mark Millbank Esquire of Thor  $         1,464.00
151 George Hunt after James Pollard Trolling for Pike  $         1,220.00
152 Currier & Ives American Forest Game  $                   -  
154 Baron D'Eisenberg and B. Picart Le Hardi, Plate XLIV & Le Gendarme, Plate XVI From  $            305.00
155 Francois Dillvers Pl. 33. Plan G‚n‚ral du Parc Paysagiste, Potager,  $            457.50
156 H. Papprill after C. C. Henderson Esq. The Night Team (Fores's Coaching Recollections), P  $            610.00
157 John Briem The Old Post Office / New York.  $            366.00
158 Sarony, Major & Knapp Archway under Carriage Drive / For Traffic Road across the park  $              30.50
159 W. J. Bennett View of the Ruins after the Great Fire in New York  $         1,464.00
160 N. Currier View of the Great Conflagration at New York July 1  $            732.00
161 Giovani Battista Piranesi
(1720-1778)
Rovine D'Antico Edifizio nella Villa Barberini …  $            427.00
162 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Veduta di un sepolcro Antico esistente in una ….  $            593.75
163 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Veduta di un sepolcro creduto de' Scipiani fuori …  $            500.00
164 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Veduta interna della Camera sepolcrale nella Vigna  …  $            437.50
165 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Veduta interna della Camera sepolcrale dirimpetto …  $            437.50
166 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Veduta degli Avanzi di alcune Camere sepolcrali …  $            531.25
167 Frederic Schiller Cozzens (1846-1928) Plate from "American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races  $                   -  
168 Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) New York/Arrivees du Paquebot Transatlantique  $                   -  
169 C. R. Parsons New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Line/S. S. Saratoga  $                   -  
170 S. Seymour after Thomas Birch This Representation of the U.S. Frigrate United States  $         2,196.00
171 Frederick Roux (1805-1870) Hambourg  $                   -  
172 J.W.C. Williams (fl. 1858-1862) New York Harbor from Williamsburg  $         6,100.00
173 Theo Richardson (1855-1914) Sailing Along the Alaskan Shore  $         2,806.00
174 John Stobart (1929-) Toward the Harbour  $         4,062.50
175 Thomas Kelley (1795-1841) Trotting Cracks on the Road / Scene - Harlem Lane  $                   -  
176 Kurx & Allison Entrance of Cortez into Mexico  $            183.00
177 Cassily Adams (1843-1921) Custer's Last Fight  $         2,440.00
178 J. Flem Falls on Rainy River, opposite Fort Frances, Ontario  $         2,440.00
179 R. C. Gorman (1931-2005) Lady in Yellow Blanket 1977  $            375.00
180 Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) Pakit - Maricopa, Pl. 70  $            305.00
181 Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) Sia Street Scene, Pl. 562  $            396.50
183 Thomas McKenney (1785-1859) & James Hall (1793-1868) Encampment of the Piekann Indians near Fort Mackenzie  $            732.00
184 Thomas McKenney (1785-1859) & James Hall (1793-1868) Hunting the Buffalo  $                   -  
185 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Sin-Ga-Ba-W'Ossin, a Chippeway Chief  $            976.00
186 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Rant-Che-Wai-Me, Female Flying Pigeon  $            793.00
187 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Foke-Luste-Hajo, a Seminole  $                   -  
188 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co, a Pawnee Chief  $         1,037.00
189 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Pa-She-Nine, a Chippewa Chief  $                   -  
190 Thomas L. McKenney(1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Peah-Mus-Ka, a Musquakee Chief  $         1,098.00
191 after George Catlin (1796-1872) Archery of the Mandans, No. 24   $         6,710.00
192 after George Catlin (1796-1872) Buffalo Hunt Approaching in a Ravine, No. 11   $                   -  
193 after George Catlin (1796-1872) Buffalo Dance, No. 8   $         4,270.00
194 William Armstrong (1822-1914) A Wagon Train Crossing the Plains  $      33,550.00
195 William Armstrong (1822-1914) Buffalo Hunters, Halt on Plains  $                   -  
196 William Armstrong (1822-1914) Drying Buffalo Meat, White Horse Plains  $       51,850.00
197 Rudolf Cronau (1855-1939) Yankton Indians at the Pipestone Quarry  $                   -  
198 Edwin Willard Deming
(1860-1942)
Donkey Race  $          1,342.00
199 Seth Eastman (1808-1875) Bison Study  $          7,930.00
200 after Frederick Remington (1861-1909) A Sioux Chief  $            976.00
201 John James Audubon
(1785-1851)
Four Octavo Birds  $            732.00
202 Giovanni Battista Ferrari
(c. 1582 - 1655)
Botanical Citrus Print   $            562.50
203 Rosella Hartman (1894-1984) Florida Palm Trees  $            500.00
204 Carl William Broemel (American, 1891-1984) Elephants  $                   -   
205 Sandor Bernath (1892-c. 1984) Balfate, Colon, Honduras.  $                   -  
206 Sandor Bernath (1892-c. 1984) Southwest Landscape in Winter  $                   -  
207 Sandor Bernath (1892-c. 1984) Three Yachts in a Regatta  $            687.50
208 John James Audubon (1785-1851) White Headed Pigeon  $            274.50
209 John James Audubon (1785-1851) American Sparrow Hawk  $            562.50
210 John James Audubon (1785-1851) Black and White Creeper  $            187.50
211 John James Audubon (1785-1851) Marsh Wren  $            250.00
212 John James Audubon (1785-1851) 11 Audubon Octavos  $                   -  
213 Titian Peale after Alexander Wilson Forktailed Flycatcher, Rocky Mountain Anteater, an  $              85.40
214 John Gould (1804-1881) Toucans (Cayenne Aracari & Chestnut Eared Aracari)  $            274.50
215 Bob Elgas (1920-2010) 6 Paintings  $         1,586.00
216 Ron Jenkins (b. 1932) 43 Works on Paper  $            610.00
217 Ron Jenkins (b. 1932) Mikado Pheasants  $            375.00
   
TOTAL
 $  1,410,683.20

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