December 8th Auction Success and Prices Realized


Hello,

This Saturday marked another successful auction at Arader Galleries!  We are delighted to announce our December sale totaled $1,541,000. The 208 lot sale featured a selection of outstanding material. The Audubon birds section had two spectacular highlights Lot 9, the Hooping Crane sold for $150,000 and Lot 15, the Louisiana Heron sold for $137,500. Highlights from the Quadruped section were the Silver and Grey Fox, Lots 17 & 18, which each sold for $25,000 all in. 

A number of beautiful Redoute watercolors, the finest flower watercolors ever drawn and painted for Empress Josephine of France sold in the auction. Lots 78 the Oblique Leek & 81 the Small-flowered Vagabond Lily sold for $17,500 and $16,250 respectively. Following that was a robust selection of western Americana including works by George Catlin and Karl Bodmer. Some of the highlights were Lot 112, Pehriska-Ruhpa and Lot 114, The Idols of the Mandan Indians each selling for $5,125. Next a beautiful Bierstadt Rocky Mountains sold for $9,750 to an online customer.

The highlights of the map section were Lot 173, the sixth state of the Duval Map of Canada after Champlain, which sold for $10,625 and the first issue, first state of the Mitchell Young New Map of Texas, which sold for $31,250. Finally there was intense bidding on the Braun & Hogenburg city view of London, Lot 187, which sold for $9,375.

Our next Auction will be January 26th, which will coincide with the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory. The auction will feature a number of Audubon Birds and Quads, as well as rare books, watercolors and maps. Please let us know if you would like to receive a catalog.

Hope you can make it.

Truly,


Graham Arader 



Lot Title With Buyer's Premium
1 Audubon Bird Engraving, American Ptarmigan  $   8,125
2 Audubon Bird Engraving, Willow Grous  $  10,625
3 Audubon Bird Engraving, Cock of the Plains  $ 10,313
4 Audubon Bird Engraving, Yellow-billed Cuckoo  $   9,375
5 Audubon Bird Engraving, Sharp-tailed Grous PASS
6 Audubon Bird Engraving, Baltimore Oriole  $ 15,000
7 Audubon Bird Engraving, Ferruginous Thrush  $ 10,625
8 Audubon Bird Engraving, Brown Pelican  $ 118,750
9 Audubon Bird Engraving, Hooping Crane  $ 150,000
10 Audubon Bird Engraving, American Flamingo PASS
11 Audubon Bird Engraving, Carolina Parrot PASS
12 Audubon Bird Engraving, Glossy Ibis  $ 18,750
13 Audubon Bird Engraving, Long-billed Curlew PASS
14 Audubon Bird Engraving, Purple Heron  $ 50,000
15 Audubon Bird Engraving, Louisiana Heron  $ 137,500
16 Audubon Quad Lithograph, American Wildcat  $ 12,500
17 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Silver Fox  $ 25,000
18 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Grey Fox  $ 25,000
19 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Jaguar  $ 10,625
20 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Ocelot  $ 27,500
21 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Common Deer  $ 22,500
22 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Grizzly Bear  $ 6,250
23 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Collared Peccary PASS
24 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Cross Fox  $ 1,188
25 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Canada Otter  $ 2,500
26 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Arctic Fox  $  2,000
27 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Canada Porcupine  $ 1,875
28 Audubon Quad Lithograph, California Hare  $ 2,500
29 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Sea Otter  $ 1,875
30 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Northern Hare (Summer) PASS
31 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Hare Indian Dog  $ 1,875
32 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Northen Hare (Winter) PASS
33 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Long-tailed Deer  $  1,875
34 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Rocky Mountain Sheep  $ 2,125
35 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Townsend's Rocky Mountain  $ 2,250
36 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Wormwood Hare  $ 1,250
37 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Groundhog  $ 2,125
38 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Mink  $ 2,000
39 Audubon Quad Lithograph, Black Wolf PASS
40 Catesby Bird Engraving, Large Lark  $ 2,500
41 Catesby Bird Engraving, Summer Red Bird  $                         1,750
42 Catesby Bird Engraving, Carolina Dove  $                         3,125
43 Catesby Bird Engraving, Small Bittern  $                         3,125
44 Catesby Flower Engraving, Magnolia  $                         5,000
45 Catesby Insect Engraving, Centipede PASS
46 Catesby Flower Engraving, Bignonia PASS
47 Catesby Bird Engraving, Red Winged Starling  $                         2,000
48 Redoute Rose Stipple Engraving  $                         5,313
49 Redoute Choix Stipple Engraving  $                         1,750
50 Redoute Choix Stipple Engraving PASS
51 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving  $                         5,000
52 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving PASS
53 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving  $                         2,125
54 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving  $                         5,000
55 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving PASS
56 Redoute Lily Stipple Engraving  $                         5,000
57 Bowdich fish watercolor, dace  $                         1,500
58 Bowdich fish watercolor, Gudgeon  $                         1,375
59 Amuchastegui watercolor, Sapsucker  $                         4,063
60 Carl Hahn Parrot Watercolor PASS
61 Carl Hahn Parrot Watercolor  $                         2,500
62 Storer Orchid Watercolor PASS
63 Storer Orchid Watercolor  $                         1,875
64 Storer Orchid Watercolor  $                         1,875
65 German School Rhino Watercolors PASS
66 J. Wolf watercolor of two Elks PASS
67 Meertens Watercolor of a Hawk PASS
68 Japanese School Watercolor of Ducks  $                         5,000
69 Smit Watercolor of Ostriches  $                       15,000
70 Hoefnagel painting, Allegory of Summer PASS
71 John Dale Watercolor of Hawaii  $                         1,875
72 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       31,250
73 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       17,500
74 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                         1,875
75 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       23,750
76 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       16,250
77 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       22,500
78 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       17,500
79 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       23,750
80 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees PASS
81 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       16,250
82 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       15,625
83 Redoute Watercolor for Les Lilacees  $                       15,625
84 Merian Second Edition Insects of Surinam  $                       56,250
85 Belon Rare Ornithology Book PASS
86 Rumpf Rare Book on Shells  $                         5,000
87 Darwin Voyages Rare Book PASS
88 Francis Willughby Rare Bird Book  $                         3,000
89 Daniel Portraits of Game in South Africa PASS
90 Dry's Pictorial view of St. Louis  $                         7,500
91 Palou & Serra's Relacion Histirica PASS
92 Pine's Processions & Tapestry's PASS
93 Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana PASS
94 Franklin's Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey  $                       81,250
95 Warre's Sketches in Oregon Territory PASS
96 Waugh's Original Pencil Sketches of Ohio  $                       62,500
97 MCKenney & Hall History of the Indian Tribes of N.  $                       93,750
98 Schoolcraft's Rare Book on Indian Tribes  $                       10,000
99 Morre & Jones' Traveller's Directory  $                         4,375
100 Stewart & Webb's Altowan  $                         9,375
101 Hamilton's Indian Treaties  $                             438
102 Catlin's O-Kee-PA PASS
103 Catlin's Nord-Amerikas Indianer  $                         5,000
104 Catlin's Descriptive Catalogue  $                             688
105 Long's Western Voyages PASS
106 Armstrong Native American Watercolors Withdrawn
107 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,875
108 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,250
109 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,250
110 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,875
111 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         2,000
112 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         5,125
113 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         3,750
114 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         5,125
115 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         2,250
116 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,875
117 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                             875
118 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         2,250
119 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                             875
120 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         1,250
121 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                             875
122 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         3,125
123 Karl Bodmer Tableaux Scene  $                         2,000
124 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             344
125 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             500
126 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             313
127 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene PASS
128 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             344
129 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene PASS
130 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             500
131 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene PASS
132 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene PASS
133 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             500
134 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             594
135 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                         1,063
136 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             469
137 Karl Bodmer Vignette Scene  $                             406
138 Biddle Hunting Buffaloe by Bowen  $                             625
139 Stanley's Trial of Red Jacket Chromo  $                         1,500
140 Bierstadt Storm in the Rocky Mountains Chromo  $                       25,000
141 Bierstadt Rocky Mountains Chromo  $                         9,375
142 Original Native American Artwork  $                             875
143 Currier & Ives Last Shot Lithograph PASS
144 Catlin Buffalo Hunt Lithograph PASS
145 Catlin Buffalo Dance Lithograph PASS
146 Catlin Archery of the Mandans Lithograph  $                         3,125
147 Catlin Dying Buffalo Bull Lithograph  $                             375
148 Catlin Buffalo Hunt Lithograph  $                             281
149 Catling Wounded Buffalo Lithograph  $                             250
150 Harnett Old Violin Chromo PASS
151 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
152 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
153 Currier & Ives Americana  $                             438
154 Currier & Ives Americana  $                         2,500
155 George Bingham County Election PASS
156 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
157 Currier & Ives Americana  $                         1,750
158 Jazet French Winter Scene PASS
159 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
160 Currier & Ives Americana  $                         3,125
161 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
162 Currier & Ives Americana PASS
163 Currier & Ives Americana  $                         3,750
164 Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore  $                         1,375
165 Jansonius Nova Anglia rare map  $                         1,875
166 Van Keulen west indies map  $                         2,250
167 DeLisle Gulf Coast Map PASS
168 Evans Middle Dominions of US map  $                         1,375
169 Seutter early southest colonies plan  $                         7,813
170 Bleau Map of New England  $                         1,875
171 Van Keulen New England Map  $                         3,125
172 Visscher Map of Eastern America  $                         1,250
173 Duval Map of Canada after Champlain  $                       10,625
174 Young New Map of Texas 1835  $                       31,250
175 Pownall & Evans Map of Middle British Colonies  $                         6,250
176 Bowles Map of the East Coast  $                         1,500
177 Colton Map of the United States  $                         5,000
178 Munster Map of America  $                         5,313
179 Mercator Map of America  $                         3,750
180 Hondius Map of America  $                         1,250
181 Jansonius Map of Japan  $                         1,250
182 Linschoten Map of Terceira, Canary Islands  $                         1,875
183 Ortelius Map of the East Indies  $                         4,063
184 Senex Map of Aftica  $                             750
185 De Wit Map of west Africa PASS
186 Moll Map of Africa PASS
187 Braun & Hogenburg View of LONDON  $                         9,375
188 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
189 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
190 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
191 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
192 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
193 Braun & Hogenburg City View  $                         1,000
194 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
195 Braun & Hogenburg City View PASS
196 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         3,750
197 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         5,000
198 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         4,063
199 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         2,500
200 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         3,500
201 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         2,500
202 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         2,500
203 Cellarius Celestial Engraving PASS
204 Cellarius Celestial Engraving  $                         1,250
205 Tennis Choromolithograph PASS
206 Tennis Choromolithograph PASS
207 Tennis Choromolithograph  $                         1,625
208 Tennis painted Advertisement PASS
209 Tennis Choromolithograph  $                         2,875
Total  $            1,541,00

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