Arader Galleries: February 2025 Auction features Travel and Exploration Works on Paper from the 16th - 20th Centuries, 20125, New York City

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 01, 2025 - February 01, 2025

Page Size: 142 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Purple Grackle or Common Crow Blackbird, Plate 7.	London	1827-1838.	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
2	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Black and White Creeper, Plate 90.	London	1827-1838.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,800.00
3	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Wood Wren, Plate 179.	London	1827-1838.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 3,000.00
4	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Wilson's Plover, Plate 209.	London	1827-1838.	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,040.00
5	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Key West Dove or Pigeon, Plate 167.	London	1827-1838.	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 7,800.00
6	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Pileated Woodpecker, Plate 111.	London	1827-1838.	USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	USD 108,000.00
7	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Great Blue Heron, Plate 211.	London	1827-1838.	USD 250,000.00 - 350,000.00	USD 288,000.00
8	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Louisiana Heron, Plate 217.	London	1827-1838.	USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00	USD 204,000.00
9	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Snowy Heron or White Egret, Plate 242.	London	1827-1838.	USD 200,000.00 - 250,000.00	Not Sold
10	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Tufted Duck, Plate 234.	London	1827-1838.	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
11	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Common Gallinule, Plate 244.	London	1827-1838.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,280.00
12	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Velvet Duck, Plate 247.	London	1827-1838.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,600.00
13	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Hooping Crane (Young), Plate 261.	London	1827-1838.	USD 90,000.00 - 120,000.00	Not Sold
14	AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851).	Canvas backed Duck, Plate 301 - With View of Baltimore, Maryland in the background.	London	1827-1838.	USD 45,000.00 - 55,000.00	USD 43,200.00
15	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Golden Eye Duck, Plate 342.	London	1827-1838.	USD 28,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
16	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Trumpeter Swan (Young), Plate 376.	London	1827-1838.	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
17	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Sharp-tailed Grous, Plate 382.	London	1827-1838.	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 6,600.00
18	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Glossy Ibis, Plate 387.	London	1827-1838.	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
19	AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).	Scarlet Ibis, Plate 397.	London	1827-1838.	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
20	AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) & John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862).	Canada Porcupine Pl. XXXVI.	New York	[1845-1849].	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,800.00
21	CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).	[Heath Hen or Grouse], Plate 1.	London	1731-1743.	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,700.00
22	CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).	[The Yellow and Black Pye], Plate 5.	London	1731-1743.	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
23	CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).	[Heron with Lizard and Insects], Plate 10.	London	1731-1743.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,160.00
24	CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).	The Golden winged Woodpecker, Plate 19.	London	1731-1743.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,000.00
25	CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).	The Ground-Squirrel, Sciurus Striatus, Plate 75, Vol 2.	London	1731-1743.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,700.00

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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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