Arader Galleries announces their Winter Auction December 11th
- by Announcement, Rare Book Hub staff
Arader Galleries is excited to announce a wonderful Winter Auction on December 11th, 2021 including profoundly important icons of natural history and cartography such as beautiful examples of Audubon's Birds of America, a stunning collection of original watercolors, an excellent selection of Globes and rare maps, as well as both rare books and Americana.
The 163 lot sale begins with a curated selection of 33 aquatints from John James Audubon's Birds of America including some of the finest compositions he created such as, the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Lot 5), Barred Owl (Lot 11), Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Lot 12), Canada Goose (Lot 21), and California Vulture (Lot 29).
Succeeding is a magnificent grouping of natural history artwork of flora and fauna including an excellent assemblage of Daniel Giraud Elliot's A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (Lots 39-46), Original watercolors by Samuel Howitt, Edward Lear & Prideaux John Selby; the best Bessa watercolor we have ever seen, as well as a stunning large scale painting by Frederick Waugh (Lots 48-85).
Next is a wide-ranging selection of rare books including; John Gould's only work devoted to American Birds, The Partridges of America (Lot 86), Magnus' History of Northern People and Customs (Lot 91), a magnificently colored composite atlas by De Wit (Lot 96), and Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (Lot 97).
The auction then has a small, but wonderful grouping of Globes varying from a small terrestrial globe by Blaeu from 1602 to a large pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by Smith and Son from 1825 (Lots 98-107).
Finally the sale ends with a varied section of rare maps, views and Americana. Highlights include the finest 18th century drawing of Lison (Lot 124), a Scolari / Blaeu map of Germania c. 1650 (Lot 130), a manuscript map of the "Great Eastern Road" in New England c. 1765 (Lot 135), and an excellent selection of early photographs of the American West and Native American Cultures (Lots 150-163).
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Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
Forum Auctions The 10th Anniversary Sale Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2026
Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
Forum Auctions The 10th Anniversary Sale Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2026
Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
Forum Auctions The 10th Anniversary Sale Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2026
Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
Forum Auctions The 10th Anniversary Sale Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2026
Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000
