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<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Joseph F. Kernan, <i>College Football,</i> oil on canvas, <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> cover, 1932. $25,000 to $35,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Joseph C. Leyendecker, <i>Golfer Lighting a Cigarette,</i> oil on canvas, c.1920. $7,000 to $10,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Howard Chandler Christy, <i>In the Field,</i> charcoal & watercolor, published in <i>Scribner’s,</i> 1902. $8,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> N.C. Wyeth, <i>Standish Reading,</i> pen & ink, for <i>The Courtship of Miles Standish,</i> 1920. $5,000 to $7,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Johnanna Stewart Mapes, <i>A Fairy Book,</i> conté crayon, for <i>St. Nicholas Magazine,</i> 1907. $2,500 to $3,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Arnold Lobel, pen & ink, for <i>The Frog & Toad Coloring Book,</i> 1981. $3,000 to $4,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Antonio Lopez, <i>Today’s Fashions,</i> study for <i>The New York Times,</i> 1981. $2,500 to $3,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Charles Schulz, <i>“I’ll have to go back to the house…I forgot my rubbers…”</i> pen & ink, original 4-panel <i>Peanuts comic,</i> 1960. $8,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28:</b> Constantin Alajalov, <i>Family Tree,</i> watercolor and gouache, cover for <i>The New Yorker,</i> 1938. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
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<center><b>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Winter Auction<br>Jan. 30 & 31, 2021</b><b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Rare 1778 Engraved map of Colonial Philadelphia after George Heap (1714-1752) and Nicholas Scull (1687-1761). $10,000 to $12,000.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Author signed and inscribed <i>THE FOUNTAINHEAD,</i> stated First Edition, by Ayn Rand, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York, 1943. $2,000 to $2,400.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engraving, "Yellow-billed Magpie, Stellers Jay, Ultramarine Jay and Clark's Crow," Plate Number CCCLXII. $1,800 to $2,200.<center><b>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Winter Auction<br>Jan. 30 & 31, 2021</b><b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) autograph letter, signed, as President, to Nathan Reid detailing Jackson’s intervention on behalf of Reid's grandson. $1,800 to $2,200.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Edward Steichen (Luxembourg/American, 1879-1973) portfolio of photographs, "The Early Years 1900-1927, 12 Hand-Gravure Prints" #41/1000, printed in 1981. $1,400 to $1,600.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, TLS, one-page typed letter on The White House, Washington, D.C., stationary to John Marshall Butler. $1,400 to $1,600.<center><b>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Winter Auction<br>Jan. 30 & 31, 2021</b><b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Two Pre-Civil War slave related letters, including one written by Mariah, a female domestic slave of James Vincent Musgrove (1814-1890) to her daughter. $1,000 to $1,200.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Two author signed and inscribed Ayn Rand related books, including one Rand signed <i>WE THE LIVING,</i> London 1940 edition. $1,000 to $1,200.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> PLAN DE LA VILLE DE MEMPHIS (ETATS-UNIS) 40,000 HABITANTS pen and ink with watercolor hand drawn drainage system map, circa 1870. $700 to $900.<center><b>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Winter Auction<br>Jan. 30 & 31, 2021</b><b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> Scarce Mezzotint portrait of Thomas Pownall, Colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1757-1760) and South Carolina (1760). $600 to $700.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> VIEW OF NORFOLK FROM COSPORT, VIRGINIA, John Hill, engraver, after John Shaw (U.K., 1776-1832). $600 to $700.<b>Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31:</b> THE BURNING OF THE MERCHANT'S EXCHANGE, NEW YORK CITY -THE GREAT FIRE OF DECEMBER, 1835. Scarce color lithograph, a 1909 reissue of the original 1836 print. $500 to $700.
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Auction Reports
Arader Galleries
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Audubons, Natural History Watercolors, Fine European and American Oil Paintings, Rare Maps, Books, & Assorted Americana.
- Auction Date
- 12/05/2020 - 12/05/2020
- Sale Number
- #120520
- Total Lots
- 183
- Sold Lots
- 84
- Lots Sold
- 45.90%
- Unsold Lots
- 99
- Total Sales (USD)
- 4,071,240.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 3,976,800.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 5,642,000.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 8,731,800.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 12,400,000.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 32.83%
Top twenty by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
125 | GASTALDI, Giacomo (1500-1566). | Gastaldi 4-part Wall Map of Asia |
1570 (1559 - 61). | USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 | USD 360,000.00 |
175 | LAFON, Barthelemy (1769-1820). | Lafon Map of Louisiana 1806 |
USD 350,000.00 - 450,000.00 | USD 360,000.00 | |
183 | SHERBURNE, Jonathan W. (fl. 1813-1827), BRANTZ, Lewis (1766-1838), and WIRGMAN, Charles (1781-1821). | Manuscript Map of Patapsco River - Chesapeake Bay |
1818 | USD 350,000.00 - 500,000.00 | USD 360,000.00 |
49 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759 - 1840). | Redoute Original Watercolor, Floentis Iris |
ca. 1802 - 1816. | USD 200,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 228,000.00 |
106 | ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527–1598). | Ortelius Atlas Spanish 1588 |
USD 225,000.00 - 350,000.00 | USD 216,000.00 | |
47 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759 - 1840). | Redoute Original Watercolor, Plantain Lily |
ca. 1802 - 1816. | USD 150,000.00 - 175,000.00 | USD 168,000.00 |
22 | AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). | Audubon, White Pelican, Plate 311 |
1827-1838. | USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 162,000.00 |
48 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759 - 1840). | Redoute Original Watercolor, Red Lily |
ca. 1802 - 1816. | USD 175,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 162,000.00 |
129 | WALDSEEMULLER, Martin (1470 - 1521). | Waldseemuller's Admiral's Map |
1513 | USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 | USD 150,000.00 |
50 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759 - 1840). | Redoute Original Watercolor, Fragarant Daffodil |
ca. 1802 - 1816. | USD 120,000.00 - 170,000.00 | USD 126,000.00 |
1 | AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). | Audubon, Male Turkey, Plate 1 |
1827-1838. | USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 | USD 120,000.00 |
167 | GORDON, Peter (Early-18th century). | Gordon View of Savannah |
1734 | USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | USD 116,400.00 |
51 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759 - 1840). | Redoute Original Watercolor, Wild Flowered Banana |
ca. 1802 - 1816. | USD 100,000.00 - 125,000.00 | USD 110,400.00 |
165 | Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. | Rare Map of Galveston Bay Texas 1835 |
1835 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 91,200.00 |
123 | GASTALDI, Giacomo (1500-1566). | Gastaldi Map of Eastern Europe |
1560 | USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 84,000.00 |
17 | AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). | Audubon, Canada Goose, Plate 201 |
1827-1838. | USD 45,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 73,200.00 |
124 | GASTALDI, Giacomo (c. 1500-1566). | Gastaldi Map of Asia |
1561 | USD 75,000.00 - 125,000.00 | USD 72,000.00 |
112 | WIT, Frederick de (1630 - 1706). | Wit Maritime Atlas 1690 |
USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 66,000.00 | |
169 | MEAD, Braddock, alias "GREEN, John" (1688-1757). | Mead Map of New England 1755 |
1755 | USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 | USD 66,000.00 |
57 | CATLIN, George (1796 - 1872). | Catlin Ostrich Chase Oil |
1857 | USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 60,000.00 |