Arader Galleries Summer Auction Prices Realized
Arader Galleries' is thrilled to share the results of our successful Summer Auction this past Saturday, June 13, 2016. The 207 lot sale included a stunning offering of Audubon’s Birds and Quadrupeds, various examples of natural history works, a wonderful collection of fine paintings, maps, views, and rare books. The auction totaled $925,016.
The evening preceding the sale the second floor of 1016 Madison played host for a riveting lecture by Jean Bochnowski, the Director of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove. Jean's talk offered a detailed and captivating history of John James Audubon's impressive life, encapsulating both his successes and hardships. Patrons were urged to designate 20% of their hammer price to be donated to aid in the wonderful work that Jean and the staff at the Center at Mill Grove are doing to educate our youth about Audubon and his role in American history. They are currently building a beautiful addition to the center, a conservation center and museum, which will break ground this October.
Highlights of the Audubon section of the sale included the Male Turkey (Lot 19), Audubon's first plate in Bird's of America, which achieved $85,400. The Trumpeter Swan, Young (Lot 15) achieved a notable $24,400. In the Quads the standout item was the Common Deer (Lot 36), which sold for $14,640.
Other highlights from the sale include August Lohr's stunning View of Mexico (Lot 106) selling for $8,125 and another western artist made waves with Thomas Moran's etching of Tower Falls (Lot 109) achieving $10,370. Of the offering of fine maps included in the sale the two standouts were the Covens & Mortier's edition of the seminal Mitchell Map of British and French Dominions...(Lot 117) selling for $14,640 and Fry & Jefferson's Map of Virginia (Lot 127) realizing $36,600.
Please lookout for our September 17th, 2016 Auction for a wonderful selection of works on paper including an amazing selection of works focused on Washington D.C and founding of our great nation. Enjoy your Summer!
| Lot | Artist | Title | Price Realized |
| 1 | John James Audubon | Western Duck | $ - |
| 2 | John James Audubon | Greenshank | $ 2,745 |
| 3 | John James Audubon | Cedar Bird | $ 3,050 |
| 4 | John James Audubon | Pine Grossbeak | $ 2,813 |
| 5 | John James Audubon | Purple Grackle | $ 5,124 |
| 6 | John James Audubon | Mango Hummingbird | $ 2,440 |
| 7 | John James Audubon | Bird of Washington | $ 10,370 |
| 8 | John James Audubon | Common Buzzard | $ 2,745 |
| 9 | John James Audubon | Burgomaster Gull | $ 6,710 |
| 10 | John James Audubon | White Ibis | $ 9,760 |
| 11 | John James Audubon | Scarlet Ibis | $ 13,420 |
| 12 | John James Audubon | Chuck Will's Widow | $ 4,270 |
| 13 | John James Audubon | Rusty Grackle | $ 2,745 |
| 14 | John James Audubon | Goosander | $ 6,100 |
| 15 | John James Audubon | Trumpeter Swan, Young | $ 24,400 |
| 16 | John James Audubon | Ruffed Grouse | $ 33,550 |
| 17 | John James Audubon | Blue Crane or Heron | $ 73,200 |
| 18 | John James Audubon | Purple Heron | $ 33,550 |
| 19 | John James Audubon | Wild Turkey, Male | $ 85,400 |
| 20 | John James Audubon | Wild Turkey, Female | $ 39,650 |
| 21 | John James Audubon | Turtle Dove | $ 8,540 |
| 22 | John James Audubon | Meadow Lark | $ 23,180 |
| 23 | John James Audubon | Baltimore Oriole | $ 14,640 |
| 24 | John James Audubon | Mocking Bird | $ 20,740 |
| 25 | John James Audubon | Shrew Mole | $ 366 |
| 26 | John James Audubon | Cross Fox | $ 549 |
| 27 | John James Audubon | Downy Squirrel | $ 488 |
| 28 | John James Audubon | Columbian Squirrel | $ 549 |
| 29 | John James Audubon | Black-Tailed Deer | $ 244 |
| 30 | John James Audubon | Bachman's Hare | $ 854 |
| 31 | John James Audubon | Pennant's Marten | $ 488 |
| 32 | John James Audubon | Texan Skunk | $ 549 |
| 33 | John James Audubon | Mink | $ 1,342 |
| 34 | John James Audubon | Collared Peccary | $ 3,125 |
| 35 | John James Audubon | Prairie Wolf | $ 5,625 |
| 36 | John James Audubon | Common Deer | $ 14,640 |
| 37 | John James Audubon | Ocelot | $ 9,760 |
| 38 | John James Audubon | Grey Fox | $ 12,200 |
| 39 | Frederic Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire | Le Chati, femelle | $ 122 |
| 40 | Frederic Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire | Biche du Cerf de la Louisiane | $ 122 |
| 41 | Frederic Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire | Biche de la presqu-ile de Malaca | $ 183 |
| 42 | Frederic Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire | Bison femelle jeune | $ 610 |
| 43 | Albert Seba | Tab. LXIX | $ 336 |
| 44 | Albert Seba | Tab. LIIII | $ 336 |
| 45 | Charles H. Smith | African Rhinoceros | $ 5,490 |
| 46 | Charles H. Smith | Rhinoceros with Calf | $ 4,270 |
| 47 | Charles H. Smith | Two-Horned Sumatran Rhinoceros | $ 3,965 |
| 48 | Charles H. Smith | Sumatran Rhinoceros | $ 2,440 |
| 49 | Charles H. Smith | Indian Elephant | $ 4,575 |
| 50 | Charles H. Smith | African Elephant | $ 4,270 |
| 51 | Charles H. Smith | Collared Peccary | $ 1,342 |
| 52 | Charles H. Smith | Hog | $ 610 |
| 53 | Charles H. Smith | Chinese Hogs | $ 671 |
| 54 | Charles H. Smith | Tapir | $ 610 |
| 55 | Basil Besler | Melanzana Fructu Pallido | $ 5,795 |
| 56 | Basil Besler | Piper Indicum Filiquisflavis | $ 1,220 |
| 57 | Basil Besler | Poma amoris Fructu Luteo | $ 1,220 |
| 58 | Basil Besler | Solanum Pomiferum | $ - |
| 59 | Emile Reinbach | Botanical Watercolor | $ 1,586 |
| 60 | Emile Reinbach | Botanical Watercolor | $ 1,586 |
| 61 | Unknown Artist (J.R.) | Camellia | $ 610 |
| 62 | Unknown Artist (Dutch) | Parrot-Tulip | $ 610 |
| 63 | Mark Catesby | The Laurel Tree of Carolina, [Magnolia Grandiflora] | $ 23,180 |
| 64 | John Gould | Goshawk, Plate 17 (Astur Palumbarius) | $ 549 |
| 65 | Prideaux John Selby | Golden Eagle, Young (Plate II) | $ 427 |
| 66 | John Gould | Straight-billed Hermit (Phaethornis Bourcieri) | $ 793 |
| 67 | John Gould | Sporadinus Riccordi | $ - |
| 68 | John Gould | Adelomyia? Castaneiventris | $ - |
| 69 | John Gould | Liphornis Verreauxi | $ - |
| 70 | John Gould | Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais Guimeti) | $ - |
| 71 | John Gould | Ramphomicron Ruficeps | $ - |
| 72 | John Gould | Campylopterus? Cuvieri | $ 1,037 |
| 73 | John Gould | Buffy Hummingbird (Leucippus Fallax) | $ - |
| 74 | John Gould | Columbian Emerald (Chlorostilbon Angustipennis) | $ - |
| 75 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The Common Crane (Grus Communis) | $ 122 |
| 76 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The Black Necked Crane (Grus Nigricollis) | $ 122 |
| 77 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The Mantchurian Crane, adult and chick (Grus Japonensis) | $ 153 |
| 78 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The Hooded Crane (Grus Monachus) | $ 61 |
| 79 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The America Crane (Grus Americana) | $ 183 |
| 80 | Henrich Leutemann & J G Keulemans | The Canadian Crane (Grus Canadensis) | $ 183 |
| 81 | Neapolitan School | Bay of Naples | $ - |
| 82 | Neapolitan School | Bay of Naples (Mount Vesuvius) | $ - |
| 83 | Samuel Atkins, R.A. | Harbor Scene | $ - |
| 84 | Samuel Atkins, R.A. | Ship and Port View with Battlement | $ - |
| 85 | American School | Shepherdess of Salem | $ - |
| 86 | Thomas Elliot | A Dandy in two positions | $ - |
| 87 | Sydney Lermond | Billet Head from the U.S. frigate, Sabine, 1939 | $ 625 |
| 88 | Robert Havell Jr. | Gulls over a Rough Seas | $ 2,318 |
| 89 | Nicolino V. Calyo | View of New York | $ 27,450 |
| 90 | Theodore R. Davis | Arrival of the 7th New York at Annapolis, Maryland. April 22, 1861 | $ - |
| 91 | John Henry Hill | Landscape Scene at Sunset | $ - |
| 92 | John Henry Hill | Landscape Scene (attributed to the White Mountains) | $ - |
| 93 | Frans Holzlhubert | Union Hotel by Hardley | $ - |
| 94 | Frans Holzlhubert | Boathouse on the Mississippi | $ - |
| 95 | William L. Sonntag | In the Catskills | $ 625 |
| 96 | Henry Alken, R.A. | Foxhunting Scene | $ - |
| 97 | Victor Dubreuil | The International Contest between Heenan & Sayers | $ 33,550 |
| 98 | Gunnar Widforss | Monterey Landscape | $ - |
| 99 | Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham | View of the Bosphorus | $ 6,100 |
| 100 | William James Muller | The Rialto Bridge, Venice | $ 9,150 |
| 101 | John Constable | Barges on the River Stour at Flatford, Suffolk | $ - |
| 102 | Theodore Jung | View of Paris | $ - |
| 103 | Reginald Marsh | New York Skyline | $ - |
| 104 | Thomas W. Whitley | Hoboken, the Promenade | $ 9,760 |
| 105 | Newbold Hough Trotter | View of J. Reston Thoma Dairy Farm (Swarthmore Area, Pennsylvania) | $ 813 |
| 106 | August Löhr | View of Mexico, 1896 | $ 8,125 |
| 107 | South American School | A Lake in a Woodland | $ 1,875 |
| 108 | Granville Perkins | Delaware Water Gap | $ 2,074 |
| 109 | Thomas Moran | Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park | $ 10,370 |
| 110 | John Claude Nattes | Bath, illustrated by a series of views… | $ - |
| 111 | Humphrey Repton, John Adey, & George Stanley | Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton | $ - |
| 112 | John Pine | The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords, representing the several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year MDLXXXVIII | $ - |
| 113 | William Bartram | Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws | $ - |
| 114 | John Adair | The Description of the Sea-Coast & Islands of Scotland, with Large and Exact Maps, for the Use of Seamen | $ - |
| 115 | A. Cellarius, P. Schenk, & G.Valk | Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia, Macrocosmica (Title Page) | $ 625 |
| 116 | H. Phelps | Phelps’ Map of the United States from the Best Authorities | $ 1,342 |
| 117 | Cornelis Mortier & Johannes Covens | A Map of the British and French
Dominions in North America… c. 1755 -1761 |
$ 14,640 |
| 118 | William W. Mather | Geological Map of Long and Staten Island with the Environs of New York | $ 3,355 |
| 119 | David H. Burr | Map of Queens, Kings & Richmond | $ 813 |
| 120 | John Bornet | Panorama of the Harbor of New York, Staten Island and the Narrows | $ - |
| 121 | Nicholas Visscher | Nova Tabula Geographica complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem.... | $ - |
| 122 | Herman Moll | A New and Exact Map of the
Coast, Countries and Islands within the limits of the South Sea Company |
$ 488 |
| 123 | Reiner & Joshua Ottens. | Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula | $ 6,100 |
| 124 | Himely after After Ambroise Louis Garneray | A View of New York Taken from Weehawken | $ 4,575 |
| 125 | Henry F. Perley | Map of the Eastern Portion of British America, Gulf of Lawrence | $ 122 |
| 126 | J.T. Lloyd | Lloyd’s Official Map of the State of Virginia | $ 1,952 |
| 127 | Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson | A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia... | $ 36,600 |
| 128 | John Speed | A New Description of Carolina | $ 3,355 |
| 129 | John Reid & W. Winterbotham | The State of North Carolina from the Best Authorities | $ 732 |
| 130 | U.S. General Land Office | Oregon | $ 1,625 |
| 131 | George F. Cram | Cram's Railroad and Township Map of Oregon | $ 1,500 |
| 132 | Alexander von Humboldt | A Map of New Spain... | $ - |
| 133 | Plancius Petrus | Orbis Terrarum Typas de Intego Miltis in Locis Emendatus | $ - |
| 134 | Sebastian Munster | Tabula novarum insularum, quas Diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant | $ 4,270 |
| 135 | Richard Blome | A Mapp of the Generall Carte of the World Designed in Two Plaine Hemispheres | $ 1,830 |
| 136 | Richard Blome | A New Mapp of Europe | $ 1,830 |
| 137 | Richard Blome | A New Mapp of America Septentrionale | $ 2,074 |
| 138 | Richard Blome | A New Mapp of America Meridionale | $ 1,830 |
| 139 | Richard Blome | Generall Mapp of Asia | $ 1,952 |
| 140 | Richard Blome | A New Mapp of Africa | $ 1,220 |
| 141 | Antonio Floriano | (Untitled) World Map with Globe Gores | $ 67,100 |
| 142 | Christopher Saxton | Warwic, Lecestriae Q3 Comitat Civitat Oppidoru, Villaru, Fluminu Ceterarum q3 rerum omnium in esidem Memorabilium nova | $ 1,342 |
| 143 | Christopher Saxton | Lincolniae Notinghamiaeo Comitatuu nova vera et accurata descriptio, Anno Domini 1576 | $ 1,250 |
| 144 | Francois Valentijn | Kaart van het Eyland Formosa en de Eylanden van Piscadores | $ - |
| 145 | Jan Van Loon | Orbis Terrarum Nova... | $ 3,750 |
| 146 | John Fairburn | A New Map of France divided into Metropolitan Circles and Departments agreeable to the decree of the National Assembly in 1790 | $ 153 |
| 147 | Cornelis Mortier & Johannes Covens | Le DuchĂ© de Milan dans toute son estendue… | $ 531 |
| 148 | William Henry Pyne | Frogmore | $ 219 |
| 149 | William Henry Pyne | Buckingham House | $ 156 |
| 150 | Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Veduta dell'anfiteatro Flavio detto il colosseo | $ 625 |
| 151 | Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Saint Peter's Church, Vatican | $ 366 |
| 152 | Giovanni Battista Piranesi | S. Maria Maggiore with the Column from the Basilica of Constantine in the foreground | $ 344 |
| 153 | Joan Blaeu | Horatiorum et Curiatiorum Sepulchrum/Insula instar Navis, cum Templo Aesculapij (XLI) | $ - |
| 154 | Joan Blaeu | Prospetto della Basilica Vaticana/Architettura di Carlo Maderno. L'eglise de S. Pierre A Rome | $ 153 |
| 155 | Joan Blaeu | M. Curty Sepulchrum/Septizonii Severi Sepulchrum a Rome (XXXVII) | $ - |
| 156 | Currier & Ives | The Capture of Jeff Davis | $ 61 |
| 157 | J. H. Buffords | Jeff's Last Shift/Capture of Jeff Davis May 10, 1865 at Irwinsville, GA | $ 73 |
| 158 | Currier & Ives | A Scene on the Susquehanna | $ 214 |
| 159 | Currier & Ives | Valley Falls, Virginia | $ 214 |
| 160 | Currier & Ives | New Palace Steamer Pilgrim, of the Fall River Line | $ 427 |
| 161 | Currier & Ives | The Wreck of the Atlantic | $ 188 |
| 162 | Currier & Ives | A Stanch Pointer | $ 244 |
| 163 | Currier & Ives | The Independent Gold Hunter on his way to California | $ 2,745 |
| 164 | Currier & Ives | View of Harpers Ferry, VA | $ - |
| 165 | A.B. Frost | English Snipe | $ 976 |
| 166 | A.B. Frost | Autumn Grouse Shooting | $ 1,037 |
| 167 | A.B. Frost | Summer Woodcock | $ 976 |
| 168 | Samuel Howitt | Duck Shooting (La Chasse Aux Canards) | $ 1,037 |
| 169 | Samuel Howitt | Shooters Going Out In A Morning (Chasseurs Sortant Du Matin) | $ 915 |
| 170 | Samuel Howitt | Rabbit Shooting (La Chasse Aux Lapin) | $ 976 |
| 171 | Samuel Howitt | Grouse Shooting (La Chasse Au Cog De Bruyere) | $ 976 |
| 172 | Samuel Howitt | Stag Hunting. 2. (La Chasse Au Cerf) | $ 976 |
| 173 | C. Shepherd | George Washington/General and Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in America | $ 3,965 |
| 174 | Currier & Ives | The Home of Washington, Mount Vernon | $ 214 |
| 175 | Albert Adam | Petit Lievres et leue Mere | $ 488 |
| 176 | A. Park | Paul Jones, the Pirate | $ 366 |
| 177 | After Charles Vernet | Dogs Dancing/ La Danse des Chiens | $ - |
| 178 | George Bellows | Artist Judging Works of Art | $ 3,750 |
| 179 | After Hughson Hawley | Pennsylvania Station, New York City, Seventh Avenue and Thirty-Second Street, looking towards Long Island. | $ 3,355 |
| 180 | Karl Bodmer | Niagara Falls | $ 1,464 |
| 181 | Karl Bodmer | Junction of the Yellow-Stone River with the Missouri | $ 3,660 |
| 182 | Unknown | Wyoming Bill's Wild West | $ 1,830 |
| 183 | Painted by A.F. Tait, Lithographed by N. Currier | The Last War Whoop | $ 3,438 |
| 184 | Albert Bierstadt | Storm in the Rocky Moutains, Mt. Rosealie | $ 18,300 |
| 185 | Albert Bierstadt | Domes of Yosemite | $ 19,520 |
| 186 | William & A. K. Johnston | Johnston’s 30-Inch Globe
Constructed and Engraved from the latest Authorities |
$ 6,100 |
| 187 | Baroque style | Hourglass | $ 671 |
| 188 | Native American Portrait Plaque | Tecumseh | $ - |
| 189 | Earnest W. Steffen | Northern Flicker | $ 438 |
| 190 | Earnest W. Steffen | Red-shafted Flicker | $ 438 |
| 191 | Earnest W. Steffen | Natalie Sapsucker | $ 438 |
| 192 | Earnest W. Steffen | Red-naped Sapsucker | $ 438 |
| 193 | Earnest W. Steffen | Scarlet Tanager | $ 500 |
| 194 | Earnest W. Steffen | Western Palm Warbler | $ 500 |
| 195 | John James Audubon | Fork-Tailed Gull & Arctic Ground Finch (Octavo) | $ 397 |
| 196 | Vladimir Pavlosky | Palm Tree Tropical Landscape | $ 580 |
| 197 | L. Prang & Co. | Domestic Dogs | $ - |
| 198 | Abraham van Diepenbeeck, (after). William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle | Welbeck Park | $ - |
| 199 | Abraham van Diepenbeeck, (after). William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle | Horse Farm | $ 366 |
| 200 | Johann Elias Ridinger | Fable of Elephant Thwarting Foxes' Revenge | $ - |
| 201 | Johann Elias Ridinger | Fable of Ostrich Seeking Eagles' Wings to Fly | $ - |
| 202 | Edward Adveno Brooke | The Trellis Window, Trentham Hall Gardens | $ - |
| 203 | Herbert Morton Stoops | Swans Mate | $ 2,500 |
| 204 | Arthur D. Fuller | Bass Fishing | $ 3,355 |
| 205 | Arthur D. Fuller | Sportmen's Choice | $ 3,125 |
| 206 | Arthur D. Fuller | One in the Net | $ - |
| 207 | after Harold M. Brett | An Afternoon Afield | $ 1,830 |
| Total = | $ 925,016 |
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