January 27th, 2018 - Arader Galleries Auction Success and Prices Realized

Dear Friends,

This Saturday marked another successful auction at Arader Galleries!  We are delighted to announce our first sale of 2018 totaled $2,391,294. The 200 lot sale featured a selection of outstanding material. It began with much excited bidding for the selection of 27 lots from Audubon's Birds of America. The Ruffed Grous achieved $73,200 and the Snowy Heron sold for $292,800. The stand out success was the Great Blue Heron, which after a tense round of bidding in the room and on the phones sold for an all-time auction record for Audubon of $353,800. 

The sale continued with an exceptional collection of Texana. The star lot of which was a First Edition, First State of Stephen F. Austin's Cornerstone map of Texas, that sold for $164,700. Other maps in the collection were the Burr Map of Texas, which sold for $36,600, the Young New Map of Texas, which sold for $7,938, triple the high estimate, and the Arrowsmith map of Texas for $7,320. 

Other highlights included the original watercolors of Charles R. Knight, five of which sold for prices above their estimates and for a total of over $80,000, and a lovely copy of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, which sold for $31,750. There was a fine grouping of San Francisco city views, the highlight of which was Gifford Birds Eye View ($9760). There was also a large scale Currier & Ives of New York that sold for $12,200, and a Hondius Engraved Map of East Asia, which sold for $6710. A Full price list is available below. 

We are looking forward to our next sale scheduled for Saturday March 31st at 1pm. The auction will Include an amazing selection of Natural History watercolors, a fine collection of rare books and atlases, varied maps and views, as well as works by John James Audubon. Our online catalog will be available via Live Auctioneers and Invaluable. If you would like to receive a catalog or have any questions, please contact auctions@aradernyc.com

Best,

Lot	Title	Premium
1	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, American Magpie, Plate 357	$6,710
2	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Lesser Tern, Plate 319	$976
3	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, White Winged Silver Gull, Plate 282	$5,795
4	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Dusky or Long-Tailed Grous, Plate 361	$1,830
5	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Night Hawk, Plate 147	$9,760
6	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Mockingbird, Plate 21	$21,960
7	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Chuck Will's Widow, Plate 52	$5,795
8	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Great Auk, Plate 341	$15,860
9	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Trumpeter Swan (Young), Plate 376	$26,840
10	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Glossy Ibis, Plate 387	Pass
11	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Wood Ibis, Plate 216	$54,900
12	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Snowy Heron, Plate 242	$292,800
13	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Great Blue Heron, Plate 211	$353,800
14	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Ruffed Grouse, Plate 41	$73,200
15	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Spotted Grous, Plate 176	Pass
16	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Little Tawny Thrush, Plate 419	$1,952
17	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Downy Woodpecker, Plate 112	$4,270
18	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Rough Legged Falcon, Plate 166.	$5,715
19	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Pied Oyster Catcher, Plate 223	$1,270
20	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Purple Sandpiper, Plate 284	$953
21	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Shore Lark, Plate 200	$976
22	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Audubons Warbler, Plate 395	$1,342
23	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Mangrove Cuckoo, Plate 169	$2,440
24	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Brazilian Eagle, Plate 161	Pass
25	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Little Screech Owl, Plate 97	$7,320
26	Audubon Aquatint Engraving, Long-Tailed Duck, Plate 312	Pass
27	Edward Lear Parrot Lithograph - Pale headed Parakeet	$2,196
28	Edward Lear Parrot Lithograph - The New Holland Parakeet	$2,196
29	Edward Lear Parrot Lithograph - The Greater Sulphine Crested Cockatoo	$3,355
30	Herbert Dicksee Original Watercolor - Two Panthers	Pass
31	Herbert Dicksee Original Watercolor - A Pack of Wolves	$4,880
32	Charles R. Knight Original Watercolor - Six Horned Uintatheres	$20,740
33	Charles R. Knight Original Watercolor - Hyaenodons & Arsinoitherium	$20,740
34	Charles R. Knight Original Watercolor - Giant Moas	$21,960
35	Charles R. Knight Original Oil Painting - Clouded Leopard	$30,500
36	Charles R. Knight Original Oil Painting - Lady Amherst Pheasant	Pass
37	Charles R. Knight Original Watercolor Study - Deer Study	$9,150
38	Charles H. Smith Sumatran Rhinoceros Watercolor	$3,660
39	Charles H. Smith African Rhinoceros Watercolor	Pass
40	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
41	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
42	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
43	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
44	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
45	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
46	Company School Natural History Watercolor	Pass
47	Redoute Watercolor of Bouquet of Flowers	$61,000
48	Redoute Watercolor of Bouquet of Flowers	$18,300
49	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis - Piper Indicum	$3,965
50	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis	Pass
51	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis	Pass
52	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis	Pass
53	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis	Pass
54	Besler Engraving - Hortus Eystettensis	Pass
55	Thorton - Temple of Flora - Narrow Leaved Kalmia	$1,708
56	Thorton - Temple of Flora - The Bog Plant	$1,651
57	Thorton - Temple of Flora	Pass
58	Thorton - Temple of Flora - The Quadrangular Passion-Flower	$1,220
59	Thorton - Temple of Flora	Pass
60	Thorton - Temple of Flora	Pass
61	Thorton - Temple of Flora - The Night Blowing Cereus	$7,320
62	Thorton - Temple of Flora - Group of Auriculas	$4,880
63	Thorton - Temple of Flora	Pass
64	Thorton - Temple of Flora - Group of Carnations	$1,708
65	Thorton - Temple of Flora - China Limodoron	$1,524
66	Thorton - Temple of Flora - The Maggot-Bearing Stapelia	$1,220
67	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
68	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
69	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	$427
70	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	$427
71	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
72	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	$427
73	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
74	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
75	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
76	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
77	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
78	Ferrari 17th C. Fruit Engraving	Pass
79	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 140	$488
80	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 231	$488
81	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 212	$549
82	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 65	$488
83	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 79	$488
84	Redoute Lily Engraving, Plate 84	Pass
85	Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in Original Color	$109,800
86	Homanns' Grosser Atlas from Wardington Library	$42,700
87	Levaillant and Barraband's Great Parrot Book	$292,800
88	Fuchs' Celebrated Herbal	$219,600
89	Perry's Account of Japan	$1,220
90	Presentation Copy of Harris' Northwest Journey	$4,270
91	Dawrin's Voyage of the Beagle	$31,750
92	Kaempfer's History of Japan	Pass
93	Braght's Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite Book	$3,355
94	Tarleton's History of the U.S. Revolutionary War	$5,490
95	Kendall and Nebel Views of Mexican American War	$16,470
96	West Indies Neptune 1825	Pass
97	West Indies Neptune 1818	Pass
98	Seller's Coasting Pilot	Pass
99	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
100	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
101	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
102	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
103	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
104	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
105	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
106	Vesalius Anatomical Images	Pass
107	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - Plate 18	$610
108	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - Plate 14]	$610
109	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings	Pass
110	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings	Pass
111	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings	Pass
112	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - plate 11	$3,355
113	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - Plate 2	$3,050
114	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - Plate 27	$4,880
115	Cellarius' Celestial Engravings - Plate 29	$4,880
116	Bayer Celestial Engravings - Auriga	$762
117	Bayer Celestial Engravings Perseus	$762
118	Bayer Celestial Engravings	Pass
119	Bayer Celestial Engravings - Southern Cross	$762
120	Homann Celestial Engraving	Pass
121	Homann Celestial Engraving	Pass
122	Evans Celestial of Southern Hemisphere	Pass
123	Flamsteed Celestial of Cetus	$635
124	Demongenet Celestial Glove Gore	Pass
125	Ninteenth-Century Mexican Lienzo	Pass
126	Manuscript Map of Spanish Florida	$103,700
127	De Cordova Map of the State of Texas	Pass
128	Burr New Map of the State of Texas	36600
129	Disturnell Map of the United States of Mexico	Pass
130	Arrowsmith Map of Texas	$7,320
131	Stephen F. Austin 1830 Map of Texas	$164,700
132	Young New Map of Texas	$7,938
133	S.A. Mitchell New Map of Texas, Oregon and California	$6,100
134	Lithograph Map of Ochiltree County, Texas	Pass
135	Lithograph Map of Nolan County Texas	Pass
136	Arrowsmith Map of the United Provinces of La Plata	Pass
137	Magnus Panorama of Mississippi Valley	Pass
138	Ogilby View of New Mexico	Pass
139	French Map of the Gulf of Mexico	Pass
140	Le Moyne Map of Florida and Carolinas	$4,880
141	Visscher Engraved Landscape Scene	Pass
142	De Wit Map of Scandinavia	Pass
143	De Wit Map of North Pole	Pass
144	Speed Map of Hampshire	Pass
145	Speed Map of Dorchester	Pass
146	N. Visscher Engraved Novi Belgii	Pass
147	De L'Isle Engraved Map of Canada	$1,586
148	Sanson Engraved Map of Canada	Pass
149	Jefferys New Map of Nova Scotia	$826
150	Hill Aquatint Broadway, New York	Pass
151	Bachman Lithograph New York City Hall	Pass
152	Hill Engraving New York from Weehawk	Pass
153	Currier & Ives View of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken	$12,200
154	Herbert Engraved Map of North America	$3,050
155	Hill Engraving New York from Heights near Brooklyn	$3,660
156	Ackerman Lithograph The Hub	$1,037
157	Page Engraved Map of Boston	$8,540
158	Camerer View of San Francisco	$6,710
160	G. De Jode's Double Hemisphere World Map	$36,600
161	De Jode Engraved Map of Alaska	$13,420
162	Gastaldi and Forlani's 1562 Engraved Map of Africa	$33,550
163	De Jode Engraved Map of Africa	$7,320
164	Zaltieri Early Map of Ireland	$13,420
165	De Fer's hand-colored Mappe Monde	Pass
166	Blaeu Engraved Map of Africa	$4,270
167	Ortelius Engraved Map of Africa	Pass
168	Ortelius Engraved Map of Asia	$6,710
169	Hondius Engraved Map of East Asia	$6,710
170	Dudley Map of the Mouth of the Amazon River	Pass
171	Fleischer Engraved Map of the Gulf Coast	Pass
172	Moll Engraved Map of America	$2,440
173	Munster Woodcut Map of the Americas	$4,270
174	4 part Nicolosi Engraved Map of America	$3,810
175	De L'Isle Engraved Map of the Americas	$159
176	De Fer Engraved Map of the Americas	Pass
177	Seile Engraved Map of the Americas	$458
178	Homann Engraved Map of the Americas	$318
179	Vaugondy Amerique Sepentrionale	Pass
180	Desnos' Atlas General 1780	$2,440
181	Guide Map of the City of San Francisco Lithograph	Pass
182	View of the New Pioneer Building from the Wasp	Pass
183	View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena Lithograph	$793
184	C.B. Gifford Birds Eye View of San Francisco Lithograph	$9,760
185	Burgess Chromolithograph San Francisco in 1849	$2,440
186	Endicott Lithograph Post Office, San Francisco	$610
187	Currier & Ives City of San Francisco	Pass
188	Feast Day as it is in Mexico Illustrated Newspaper Clipping	Pass
189	T.R. Davis engraving On The Plains	Pass
190	Ki-yi, Ki-yi' Political Cartoon from the Wasp	Pass
191	19th century Lithograph of General George Washington	$95
192	Chromolithograph after Remington, A Breed	$366
193	Chromolithograph after Remington, Old Ramon	$366
194	Thompson Etching Arrival	$61
195	Bierstadt Chromolithograph Domes of the Yosemite	Pass
196	Deruet Etching of Battle of Nordlingen Thirty Year War	Pass
197	H. E. Suydam Original Watercolors, Guatemala	Pass
198	H. E. Suydam Original Watercolors, Colon	Pass
199	H. E. Suydam Original Watercolors, Panama	Pass
200	H. E. Suydam Original Watercolors, Jamaica	Pass
	Total	$2,391,113