Arader Galleries Spring Auction Success and Prices Realized

Arader Galleries' is delighted to announce our Spring Auction this past Saturday, April 2nd, 2016, was a resounding success. The 203 lot sale included a stunning offering of Audubon’s Birds and Quadrupeds, various examples of natural history works, a wonderful collection of fine maps, views, and rare books. The auction totaled $1,137,183.

Highlights of the Audubon section of the sale included the now extinct Carolina Parrot (Lot 11) which achieved $134,200. The Fish Hawk (Lot 12) was the subject of a intense bidding war from clients in the room and on the phone, finally selling for $134,200. The rare Roseate Spoonbill (Lot 15) was the star lot of the sale and achieved a whopping $152,500. The Hooping Crane (Lot 16), sold for within the estimate for a total of $79,300. From the Quadrupeds, The Ground Hog (Lot 25) saw considerable interest, with back and forth between phone bidders, finally exceeding the high estimate to sell for $1,952, and the Jaguar (Lot 37) sold for $9,150.

Within the map section, Sir Robert Dudley's map of the Caribbean (Lot 117) sold for $10,980, Moithey's Map of the United States achieved $3,050, and George Brewerton's Mountain Waterfall (Lot 159) outperformed the high estimate to sell for $6,710. The high performer of the map section was Aaron Arrowsmith's New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces, which went for $36,600. Once again the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi saw considerable interest, with frenzied bidding in the room and online. Prospetiva della Stesso Delubro (Lot 166) sold for nearly double the high estimate at $750.

Don't miss our next auction, to be held on Saturday June 11, 2016. The sale will feature a selection of John James Audubon prints, fine maps, rare atlases and other natural history works.

Below are the full prices realized including buyer's premium:

Lot	Artist	Title	Price Realized
1	John James Audubon	Red-Throated Diver, Plate 202	$          6,100
2	John James Audubon	Western Duck, Plate 429	$          2,440
3	John James Audubon	Orchard Oriel, Plate 43	$          2,745
4	John James Audubon	Baltimore Oriole, Plate 12	$          9,150
5	John James Audubon	Ferruginous Thrush, Plate 116	$        10,980
6	John James Audubon	Purple Grackle, Plate 7	PASS
7	John James Audubon	Whip poor will, Plate 82	$          4,575
8	John James Audubon	Mango Hummingbird, Plate 184	$          3,660
9	John James Audubon	Frigate Pelican, Plate 271	$        14,640
10	John James Audubon	Golden Eagle, Plate 181	$        15,860
11	John James Audubon	Carolina Parrot, Plate 26	$      134,200
12	John James Audubon	Fishhawk (Osprey), Plate 81	$      134,200
13	John James Audubon	Great White Heron, Plate 281	$        36,600
14	John James Audubon	Pinnated Grouse. Plate 186	$          9,150
15	John James Audubon	Roseate Spoonbill, Plate 231	$      152,500
16	John James Audubon	Hooping Crane, Plate 226	$         9,300
17	John James Audubon	Barred Owl, Plate 46	$        15,860
18	John James Audubon	Mockingbird, Plate 21	$        30,000
19	John James Audubon	Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Plate 2	$          3,660
20	John James Audubon	Black-Billed Cuckoo, Plate 32	$          3,660
21	John James Audubon	White Headed Eagle, Plate 126	$        10,980
22	John James Audubon	California Vulture, Plate 426	$          7,930
23	John James Audubon	Pennants Marten, Plate 41	$               610
24	John James Audubon	Ring-tailed Bassarius, Plate 98	$               580
25	John James Audubon	Ground Hog, Plate 2	$            1,952
26	John James Audubon	Pine Marten, Plate 138	$               580
27	John James Audubon	American Red Fox, Plate 87	$            1,220
28	John James Audubon	Black Tailed Deer, Plate 78	$               610
29	John James Audubon	American Cross Fox, Plate 6	$               580
30	John James Audubon	Esquimaux Dog, Plate 113	$            1,250
31	John James Audubon	Texan Lynx, Plate 92	$               854
32	John James Audubon	Musk Ox, Plate 111	$               976
33	John James Audubon	White American Wolf, Plate 72	$               610
34	John James Audubon	Rocky Mountain Goat, Plate 128	$            1,037
35	John James Audubon	Little Harvest Mouse, Plate 65	$               397
36	John James Audubon	Caribou, Plate 126	$            1,220
37	John James Audubon	Jaguar, Plate 101	$            9,375
38	John James Audubon	Polar Bear, Plate 91	$            4,575
39	John James Audubon	Sea Otter, Plate 137	$            2,318
40	John James Audubon	Male Cougar, Plate 96	$            3,050
41	John James Audubon	Grizzly Bear, Plate 131	$            5,185
42	John James Audubon	Canada Lynx, Plate 16	$            4,575
43	John James Audubon	Douglas Spermophile, Plate 49	$               214
44	John James Audubon	Marsh Hare, Plate 18	$               610
45	John James Audubon	Nuttal's Hare, 94	$               793
46	John James Audubon	Wormwood Hare, Plate 88	$               976
47	John James Audubon	Swamp Hare, Plate 37	$               976
48	John James Audubon	Black Footed Ferret, Plate 93	$               976
49	John James Audubon	The Black Rat, Plate 23	$               438
50	John James Audubon	Norway Rat, Plate 54	$               438
51	John James Audubon	Cotton Rat, Plate 30	$               244
52	John James Audubon	Four Striped Ground Squirrel, Plate 24	PASS
53	John James Audubon	Little Chief Hare, Plate 83	$               122
54	John James Audubon	Say's Squirrel, Plate 89	$               519
55	John James Audubon	Long Haired Squirrel, Plate 27	$               976
56	John James Audubon	Oregon Flying Squirrel, Plate 15	$               824
57	John James Audubon	Migratory Squirrel, Plate 35	$               488
58	John James Audubon	Orange Bellied Squirrel, Plate 58	$               580
59	John James Audubon	Black Squirrel, Plate 34	$               854
60	John James Audubon	Chipping Squirrel, Plate 8	$            3,050
61	John James Audubon	Richardson's Columbia Squirrel, Plate 5	$               244
62	John James Audubon	Common Flying Squirrel, Plate 28	$               610
63	John James Audubon	Douglass's Squirrel, Plate 48	PASS
64	John James Audubon	Downy Squirrel, Plate 25	PASS
65	John James Audubon	Dusky Squirrel, Plate 117	PASS
66	John James Audubon	Florida Rat, Plate 4	$               122
67	John James Audubon	Fremont's Squirrel, Plate 149	PASS
68	John James Audubon	Carolina Gray Squirrel, Plate 7	$               488
69	John James Audubon	Hare Squirrel, Plate 43	$               488
70	John James Audubon	Hudson Bay Squirrel, Plate 14	$               488
71	John James Audubon	Red-bellied Squirrel, Plate 38	PASS
72	John James Audubon	Red-tailed Squirrel, Plate 55	$               336
73	John James Audubon	Soft Hare Squirrel, Plate 19	PASS
74	John James Audubon	Severn River Flying Squirrel, Plate 143	PASS
75	Arthur Singer	Flying Scarlet Ibis	$            9,760
76	John Gould	Glossy Ibis (Ibis Falcinellus)	$               366
77	John Gould	Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia)	$               366
78	Mark Catesby	The Rice-Bird, Rice, (Vol I, Plate 14)	$            2,196
79	Mark Catesby	The Little Brown Duck, Soap-Wood, (Vol I, Plate 98)	$            1,220
80	Mark Catesby	The Pied-Bill Dopchick, (Vol. I, Plate 91)	$               976
81	Mark Catesby	The Noddy, (Vol. I, Plate 88)	$               610
82	Mark Catesby	The Booby, (Vol. I, Plate 87)	$            2,074
83	Mark Catesby	The Turn-Stone or Sea-Dottrel, (Vol. I, Plate 72)	$               610
84	Mark Catesby	The Brown Bittern, (Vol. I, Plate 78)	$            4,575
85	Mark Catesby	The Turkey Buzzard (Vol I, Plate 6)	$               366
86	Mark Catesby	The Humming-Bird, the Trumpet-Flower, (Vol. I, Plate 65)	$            1,220
87	Mark Catesby	The Glass Snake, (Vol. II, Plate 59)	$               366
88	Mark Catesby	The Black Viper, (Vol. II, Plate 44)	$               732
89	Mark Catesby	The Muray, (Vol. II, Plate 20)	$               366
90	Mark Catesby	The Blue Tail Lizard, (Vol. II, Plate 67)	$               366
91	Mark Catesby	The Ground-Dove, the Pellitory or Tooth-ach Tree, (Vol. I, Plate 26)	$            1,952
92	Mark Catesby	The Snow Bird, Broom-Rape, Toad-stool, (Vol. I, Plate 36)	PASS
93	Mark Catesby	The little Sparrow, the Purple Bindweed of Carolina, (Vol. I, Plate 35)	PASS
94	Mark Catesby	The Purple Jack-Daw (Vol. I, Plate 12)	$               976
95	Mark Catesby	The Fieldfare of Carolina, The Snake-Root of Virginia, (Vol. I, Plate 29)	$               488
96	Mark Catesby	The Guana (Vol II., Pl. 64)	$               438
97	Mark Catesby	Tropic Bird (Vol. I, Pl. 14)	$               519
98	Mark Catesby	The Soree (Vol. I., Pl. 70)	$               671
99	Mark Catesby	Red Clawed Crab (Vol. II, Pl. 37)	$               549
100	Mark Catesby	The Green Turtle (Vol. II, Pl. 38)	$               750
101	Joseph Wolf	The Australian Mycteria (Vol. 1, Plate 47)	$               125
102	Joseph Wolf	The Hippopotamus	PASS
103	Joseph Wolf	Reeves' Pheasant (Vol 2, Plate 33)	$               344
104	Joseph Wolf	The Leopard (Vol. 1, Plate 4)	$               219
105	George F. Sandstrom	Study of 6 Woodpeckers, Plate 4	$          20,740
106	George F. Sandstrom	Study of 3 Woodpeckers, Plate 87	$          20,740
107	George F. Sandstrom	Study of 4 Woodpeckers, Plate 73	$          21,960
108	George F. Sandstrom	Study of 4 Woodpeckers, Plate 71	$          20,740
109	War Department of Washington, Abraham Lincoln	Assassination Broadside	PASS
110	Antoine Sartine	American Neptune. Neptune Americo-Septentrional contenant les côtes, iles et bancs, les baies, ports, et mouillages, et les sondes des mers de cette-partie du monde, depuis le Groenland inclusivement, jusques et compris le golfe du Mexique.	$          36,600
111	Nicholas Sanson D'Abbeville	L’Amerique en plusiers cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c en divers traitez de Geographie, et d’Histoire ses Empires, ses Monarchies, ses Estats, &c...	$            9,150
112	Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal	Storia dell' America Settentrionale	$            9,150
113	James Wyld	A General Atlas, Containing Maps illustrating some important periods in Ancient History; and distinct Maps of the several Empires, Kingdoms and States, in the World, from Original Drawings, according to the latest Treaties	$            7,320
114	Aaron Arrowsmith	New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces compiled from Original Documents	$          36,600
115	Antoine Boudet	États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale avec les Isles Royale, de Terre Neuve, de St. Jean, l'Acadie &c.	$            1,625
116	Michael Meractor	America sive India Nova	$            5,490
117	Sir Robert Dudley	Carte particolare del'Isola di Cuba e di Jamaica con il Capo della Floride e l'Isole Intorno	$          10,980
118	Girolamo Benzoni & Theodore De Bry	Occidentalis Americæ partis, vel earum Regionum quas Christophorus Columbus primu detexit Tabula Chorographicae multorum Auctorum scriptis, præsertim vero ex Hieronymi. . .	$          10,370
119	Lewis Evans & John Gibson	The General Map of the Middle British Colonies, In America...	$            1,952
120	Alexis-Hubert Jaillot	Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties...	$            3,294
121	Maurille Antoine Moithey & Jean-Baptiste Crepy	Amerique Septentrionale...	$            3,050
122	Herman Moll	Map of Europe	$               976
123	William Henry Brooke	Gang of Negro Slaves Shipping Cotton from a Plantation on the Alabama River, by torchlight - on a Steam Boat for Mobile	$          17,080
124	William Henry Brooke	View of Richmond the Capital of Virginia, U.S. on the  James River, Looking downwards	$            2,745
125	William Henry Brooke	Covered Bridge and Steam-Boat - River Chatahoochee, dividing the States of Georgia and Alabama, America	$          12,200
126	William Henry Brooke	Court  House, Medical College, and Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Capital of the State of Georgia, U.S.	$            4,575
127	Joseph F.W. Des Barres	Views of Boston	PASS
128	John William Hill & Henry A. Papprill	New York with the City of Brooklyn in the Distance: From the Steeple of St Paul's Church, Looking East, South, and West	PASS
129	W.J. Bennett	Baltimore from Federal Hill	$          13,420
130	Samuel Atkins	Boating Scene	$            1,220
131	Arnoldus Montanus	Ostium Flumines Paraybae	PASS
132	Arnoldus Montanus	Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae	PASS
133	Arnoldus Montanus	Alagoa ad Austrum	$               458
134	Arnoldus Montanus	Paraqvaria Vulgo Paragvay	PASS
135	Arnoldus Montanus	Peru	$               500
136	Arnoldus Montanus	Brasilia	$               688
137	Arnoldus Montanus	Callao de Lima	$               500
138	Arnoldus Montanus	Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan	PASS
139	Arnoldus Montanus	Cartagena	PASS
140	Arnoldus Montanus	Siara	PASS
141	Arnoldus Montanus	Obsidio et Expugnatio Portus Calvi	PASS
142	Arnoldus Montanus	Guiana siue Amazonum	PASS
143	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Veere, in Zeeland, op'tEiland Walcheren, Pl. 24	PASS
144	Mathias de Sallieth	Oostelyk gedeelte van Amsterdam, van het Y te zien, Pl. 6	PASS
145	Mathias de Sallieth	De Haven Van Medenblik, Pl. 7	PASS
146	Mathias de Sallieth	Rotterdam van de Maas te zien, Pl. 1	$               125
147	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Harlingen, van de Zuiderzee te zien, Pl. 19	PASS
148	Mathias de Sallieth	De Haven Van Vlaardinge, Pl. 3	$               125
149	Mathias de Sallieth	De Haven Van Enkhuysen, Pl. 8	PASS
150	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Maaslandsluis, aan den Mond der Maze, Pl. 14	PASS
151	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Brouwershaven, in Zeeland op't Eioland Schouwen, Pl. 25	PASS
152	Mathias de Sallieth	De Haven Van Edam, Pl. 9	PASS
153	Mathias de Sallieth	Het Kasteel Rammekes, op het Eiland Walcheren, in Zeeland, Pl. 23.	PASS
154	Mathias de Sallieth	De Haven en Reede van Helvoetsluys, Pl. 13	PASS
155	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Vlissingen in Zeeland, Pl. 21	PASS
156	Mathias de Sallieth	Haven Van Middelburg, in Zeeland, Pl.22	PASS
157	Saloman Corrodi	View of Rome from the Janiculum, with Tasso's Oak in the Foreground.	$          30,500
158	Luigi Mayer	The Pyramids at Ghiza	$          21,960
159	George Douglas Brewerton	Mountain Waterfall	$            6,710
160	Louis Bélanger	Windsor Castle, seen form the Eton side of the Thames , 1796–1796	$            9,760
161	after Peter Paul Rubens	Le Gouvernement de la Reine	PASS
162	after Peter Paul Rubens	L'Apotheose d'Henri IV et la Regence de la Reine.	PASS
163	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Veduta di altra parte della Camera Sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio (X, Tom. II)	$               366
164	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Avanzi di antiche terme in Albano denominati Cello Majo (Tab. VII)	$               500
165	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (VI)	$               366
166	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Prospettiva dello stesso Delubro (VIII)	$               750
167	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino, presso l'imbocco dell' Emissario del Lago Albano, ornata dagli Antichi, ed accennata nella Tavola I. de'disegni dell' Emissario medesimo alla fig. I. Lett. D.	$               344
168	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Rovine d'un antico Sepolcro fatto a modo di settizonio su la via Appia appresso la villa di Pompeo Magno, or fuori d'Albano dalla parte occidentale...(Tav. IV)	$               281
169	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Dimostrazioni dell'emissario del Lago Albano (Tav. VII)	$               344
170	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (Tav. IX)	$               244
171	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Dimostrazione in grande del criptoportico accennato nella Tav. IX con la lettera C (Tav. XII)	$               366
172	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Veduta di altra parte della Camera Sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio (X, Tom. II)	$               500
173	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Trofei de Daci de Sarmati....(XIV)	$               549
174	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Veduta in prospettiva...(Tom. III, XXVI)	$               488
175	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Camera Sepolcrale pochi..(Tom. II, XVI)	PASS
176	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Grand’Urna di marmo...(Tom. II, XXXIII)	PASS
177	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Urna di marmo...(Tom. III, LII)	PASS
178	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Disengo di spoglie d’antichi edifizi  (IX)	PASS
179	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Tripodi Antichi di Marmo....	PASS
180	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Cammino che si vede...(I)	$               122
181	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Two Chimneypieces (IV)	PASS
182	Nicolas Sanson d'Abbevile	Amerique Septentrionale.	$            3,660
183	James Fraser	Fraser's Panoramic Plan of London.	$               625
184	John Ogilby	Roads from London to Bath & Wells	$               244
185	Willem Janszoon Blaeu	Turcicum Imperium	$               671
186	Hector Gavin	The Ancient City of Jerusalem	$               305
187	Daniel Stoopendaal	Jerusalem (De Tempel Salomons)	$               488
188	Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg	Roma	$            1,250
189	Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg	Namurcum	$               336
190	James & Ralph Clews	Brown Transfer Decorated Staffordshire Platter with View of Pittsburgh	PASS
191	Frederic Sackrider Remington	A Six-Fathom Canoe Bound North	PASS
192	Yates & Co	Midnight Race on the Mississippi	PASS
193	Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives	Husking	PASS
194	Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives	Landscape, Fruit and Flower	PASS
195	Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives	American Fruit Piece	PASS
196	Abraham van Diepenbeeck	Le Chateau De Bothel [Stag Hunting] from A General System of Horsemanship in All its Branches.	$               610
197	Charles Aubry	La Lecon D'Escrime [The Fencing Lesson]	$               122
198	Marguerite Kirmse	Royal Danes	$               438
199	Girard Thibault	Academie de l'Espée de Girard Thibault d'Anvers [Fencing Academy of Girard Thibault of Antwerp]	PASS
200	Richard Blome	Unharbouring ye Stagg, The End of ye Chase of ye Stagg	PASS
201	Anton Seder	Aqila [Eagles in Flight and Repose]	$               122
202	Earnest W. Steffen	Rocky Mountain Nuthatch	$               500
203	Earnest W. Steffen	Cassin's Purple Finch	$               500
		Total	$    1,137,183