For more information about this catalogue and the items within, contact the Arader Galleries at 212-628-3668, or email Kate Hunter at [email protected] or Caleb Kiffer at [email protected].
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - April - 2011 Issue
Rare and Colorful Books from the Arader Galleries
Some of George Mivart's lories.
Thomas Pennant was born of a landed Welsh family, which turned out to be quite beneficial to science. It afforded him the opportunity to study natural history rather than fight for survival. Among his interests were animals and geology. Offered is his set The British Zoology, Class I Quadrupeds, II Birds, published 1761-66. It includes illustrations by Peter Paillou, folio plates so spectacular and costly that this proved to be less than a great financial investment for Pennant. Hopefully, the respect he earned more than made up for any financial losses. $77,500.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
