Arader Galleries December 2026 Auction

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Dec 5
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Dec 5

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Arader Galleries December 2026 Auction - Extraordinary Works of Art & World History - features Travel and Exploration Works on Paper from the 16th - 20th Centuries including works from John James Audubon's Birds of America, Rare Color-Plate Books, Atlases, Rare Maps, and Globes. Arader Galleries is embracing the future. For many lots in this auction catalog we are trying a new approach; using artificial intelligence to advise on pricing. To provide the most comparable pricing we have used AI to perform a comprehensive audit of each item using multiple AI models, and where possible, we have supplied a cost basis for each item. Full transparency is our goal, and while it is not a perfect system by any means, we hope this added information will help inform your collecting decisions. Auction Director: taylorrash@aradergalleries.com 804-397-5349
Audubon Havell Aquatint, Virginia Partridge, Plate 76 - One of Audubon's Most Dramatic ImagesAudubon Havell Aquatint, Fish Hawk [Osprey], Plate 81 - The Soaring Acrobat of the SkiesAudubon Havell Aquatint, Blue Jay, Plate 102Audubon Havell Aquatint, Summer or Wood Duck, Plate 206 - The Most Famous Image of a Duck EverAudubon Havell Aquatint, Wood Ibis, Plate 216 - One of Audubon's Genius IconsAudubon Havell Aquatint, Louisiana Heron, Plate 217 - The cover image of Roger Tory Peterson's bookAudubon Havell Aquatint, Brown Pelican Standing, Plate 251 - State Bird of LouisianaAudubon Havell Aquatint, Hooping / Sandhill Crane, Plate 261 - A Masterpiece Icon of America'sAudubon Havell Aquatint PROOF PLATE, Trumpeter Swan Adult, Plate 406Audubon Havell Aquatint, Great American Cock or Male Turkey - First Edition, First Issue of theAudubon Havell Aquatint, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26 - The finest example of this masterpiece known toAgricola's Book of MetalThe Most Important Atlas of Brazil from the Baroque Age - Baerleus' rerum per octennium in BrasiliaBateman's Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala - The John Roland Abbey examplePair of George Bellows Drawings illustrated for H. G. WellsWilliam Bennett Album of Tibetan PhotosTHE VANISHINGLY RARE SECOND EDITION OF BIRCH’S VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIABirch's County Seats of the United States of North America - The Reese ExampleBlaeu Atlas Bound by Albert Magnus and Colored by Van SantenA Beautifully Detailed Manuscript Book of Hours – Use of Rome, published in Barcelona c. 1490.Braun & Hogenburg - The First Atlas of the Cities of the World With Splendid Original RenaissanceBrookshaw's Pomona Britannica - “ONE OF THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS IN EXISTENCELARGE-PAPER COPY, UNTRIMMED OF BUC'HOZ'S HERBALPriscilla Bury's Selection of Hexandrian Plants - The Broughton ExampleMark Catesby's 2nd Edition of The Natural History of Carolina... "THE MOST FAMOUS COLORPLATE BOOK OFThe second edition of Cellarius’ Star Atlas showing modern astronomical illustration.Champlain 1613 - The First Maps of France by “the first truly scientific cartographer of NorthChamplain 1631 - THE du SAUZAY – du PONT – McKINNEY example of “perhaps the most important ofChrois' Voyage Pittoreque - THE DECKER–STREETER Example WITH ORIGINAL COLOR IN FULL.Collot's Amerique Septentrionale - The Essential History of the Midwest | THEA COOK FAMILY SET - THE COMPLETE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK - “THE BASIS FOR ANY COLLECTION OFDavid's Tennis Court Oath Chalk StudiesDe Laet's Histoire de Nouveau Monde - THE FELNER–BORBA de MORAES–STREETER ExampleDe Veer's Diarium Naticum - THE BARON STUART DE ROTHESAY–SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS–PHILIPDu Halde's China - Description geographique historique, chronologique, politique, et physique deDonne's Poems with Extensive MarginaliaDu Val's RARE ATLAS - THE CARTOGRAPHER TO LOUIS XIV - ONE OF PERHAPS FIVE SURVIVING EXAMPLESElliot's Cats - THE WASSENAAR ZOO COPY WITH ALL 11 PART-WRAPPERS BOUND IN BY THE "AMERICAN GOULD"Evans' Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays w/ 1755 Map -Gonzales De Mendoza's The Historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China - THE FIRST EUROPEANGould's Birds of Europe - The beginning of the great projectGould's Trogons FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBONGould's Australia - The Largest and most important work, and the finest of all Australian birdGould's A monograph of the macropodidæ or family of kangaroos"THE TROCHILIDAE OF GOULD IS HIS MASTERPIECE, AND MUST EVER REMAIN A FEAST OF BEAUTY AND A SOURCE OFGould's Toucans - THE PREFERRED SECOND EDITIONGould's Great Britain - the most popular of his works - THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE SETGould's New Guinea Birds | THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SETTHE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP PROPOSING - THE BALTIMORE AND PORT DEPOSIT RAILROADFrancisco Hernández's Animalia Mexicana WITH Rerum medicarum Novæ HispaniæHughes' Natural History of BarbadosHolbein’s Masterpiece Renaissance Map - THE FIRST MAP TO SHOW THE EARTH REVOLVING ON ITS AXISJacquin's Selectarum stirpium americanarum historia - "INDISPUTABLY ONE OF THE RARESTThomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, First French EditionJoinville's History of Louis IX - BOUND FOR MARIE DE’ MEDICI, QUEEN REGENT OF FRANCEWilkins / Nebel Mexican War DrawingsFIRST EDITION OF KEPLER’S OPTICS WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS AND DIAGRAMS BY AKepler's Epitome - “KEPLER’S LONGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKLear's Signed Watercolor of Venice - Santa Maria della Salute, seen at sunset from the Riva degliLe Moyne's 2nd Part American Voyages by De Bry - An Early Voyage to Florida by the first EuropeanPedro De Medina, New World NavigatorMitchell's Famous 1755 Map of the British and French Dominions in North America - “THE MOSTMoran's The Yellowstone National Park, Framed in 15 Parts - THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT OF THEMortier's Atlas NoveauNeun's RARE VENEZUELAN VIEWS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JACQUES LEVYNolin's Le Theatre du Monde - THE LARGEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE ATLASA STRATEGIC MANUSCRIPT OF NORTHERN ITALIAN MAPS PREPARED FOR ARCHDUKE LEOPOLD V OF AUSTRIAOrtelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum - From the Father of Modern Atlas-Making - THE MARTELLI EXAMPLE“The most complete?? printing of the Ortelius Atlas (Theatrum orbis terrarum) by the father ofTHE CHAMPAGNE–WARDINGTON EXAMPLE OF OTTEN’S ATLAS MINORBurney's Pacific Coast Watercolor Sketches AlbumTHE FOLJAMBE SET OF PENNANT's ZOOLOGY, WITH THE MAXIMUM COMPLEMENT OF PLATESPike's Expedition - AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN PUBLISHER’S BOARDS - The Spiritual Sister of the LewisPtolemy's Geographia, 1490 - THE CAPILUPI EXAMPLE of An Incunable PtolemyPtolemy's Geography 1511 Edition, the first atals with maps printed in red and black inkPtolemy's 1548 Geografia, the world's first pocket atlasMERCATOR’S PTOLEMAIC AND ITALIAN ATLAS IN BOARDS WITH OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY COLORRamusio's great account of the voyages of the world - THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA–FRANK S. STREETER SETCandolle / Redoute's Plantarum succulentarum historia [Grasses] - THE FIRST BOOK WHOLLY ILLUSTRATEDRedoute Lillies WITH THE PLATES BOUND ALPHABETICALLY BY GENUS IN EMULATION OF THE RARE LARGE PAPERRedoute's Choix - THE FAIRHAVEN SET ON LARGE PAPER IN PARTS, IN THE PUBLISHER’S WRAPPERSA FINE FRENCH ROYAL “RELIURE D’AMOUR?? - THE ROCQUENCOURT—FIRMIN DIDOT—BORDESRoberts' Holy Land - “THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE 19TH CENTURY?? - THE APOTHEOSISRoggeveen's Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland - THE FIRST SEA CHART OF LONG ISLAND FROM THE PREMIERRuysch's Conical World Map - THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE DEPICTION OF THE NEW WORLDSanson's Atlas, Cartes generales de toutes les parties du mondeSanquirico's Operatic Opus - PRESENTATION COPY TO MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF FRANCE & DUCHESS OF PARMASartine Neptune Americo Septentrional - THE FRENCH-AMERICAN COASTAL ATLAS AT THE DAWN OFSCHEDEL'S NUREMBERG CHRONICLE - THE ILLUSTRATED INCUNABLE PAR EXCELLENCESiebold's Flora Japonica - THE GREATEST JAPANESE BOTANICAL BOOKSloane's A voyage To the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with theSolinus De mirabilibus mundi or Polyhistor, with Apian's World Map - THESophianos' Foundational Renaissance Map of Greece - A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED VARIANTSpeer's West India Pilot - WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN THE AUTHOR’S HAND PERHAPS FROM THEThornton's Temple of Flora - The Flower of Botanical Books | EX-COLL. THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINETortorel / Perrissin's RARE COMPLETE SUITE ILLUSTRATING THE WARS OF RELIGION - THE SAUVAGEOT –THE PERTH EXAMPLE of Trew & Ehret's Plantae SelectaeTussac's Flore Des Antilles - THE BOTFIELD SET of the FIRST GREAT FLORA OF THE WEST INDIESUghi Map of Venice - The first Wall Map of Venice based on an accurate field surveysVallet / Robin Jardin Du Roy - “THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUMTHE INVENTION OF THE RENAISSANCE - VASARI'S LIVES OF ARTISTSVentenat / Redoute - Jardin Malmaison - Josephine's Own Flowers | “among the most importantVesalius' De Humani Coporis - THE RENAISSANCE OF ANATOMY, THE ANATOMY OF THE RENAISSANCEVisscher's Atlas Minor - The Widow Visscher's Atlas | EX-COLL. AMSTERDAM MARITIME COLLEGEVery Rare Example of Waghenaer's Mirror, one of the brightest lights of Dutch Golden-Age mapmakingWebber Pacific Native American Drawing - A Man of Prince William SoundWeinmann's Vast Anthology of Plants | 1st Dutch EditionWilbrecht SUPERLATIVELY RARE 1802 RUSSIAN MAP OF THE BERING STRAIT - THE HECKROTTE EXAMPLE, ex coll.Cary’s New and Improved Celestial Globe (1799); Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe (1815, but 1833).Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe; Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe, 1828Rossi & Hondius' Terrestrial Globe, 1615Bonne's Globe Terrestre, 1774Trippensee School Planetarium, c. 1830sSmith’s Terrestrial Globe; Smith’s Celestial Globe, 1825

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