Arader Galleries December 2026 Auction
Updated November 8, 2026
| Date | December 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Arader Galleries |
| Location | New York, New York, 10075 · more auctions in New York |
| Lots | 114 |
| Estimates | $3,000 – $600,000 |
What's in this auction
114 lots, mostly fine art & prints (2), pottery, china & glass (2), comics & books (2). 114 lots have photos and 110 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $3,000–$600,000 across 114 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing December 5, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- Braun & Hogenburg - The First Atlas of the Cities of the World With Splendid Original Renaissance — est. $400,000–$600,000
- Gould's Australia - The Largest and most important work, and the finest of all Australian bird — est. $300,000–$500,000
- Redoute Lillies WITH THE PLATES BOUND ALPHABETICALLY BY GENUS IN EMULATION OF THE RARE LARGE PAPER — est. $400,000–$500,000
- Audubon Havell Aquatint, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26 - The finest example of this masterpiece known to — est. $350,000–$450,000
- Vesalius' De Humani Coporis - THE RENAISSANCE OF ANATOMY, THE ANATOMY OF THE RENAISSANCE — est. $350,000–$450,000
From the auction house
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In this auction (114 lots)
Categories: Fine Art & Prints (2) · Pottery, China & Glass (2) · Comics & Books (2)
- Lot 0001 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Virginia Partridge, Plate 76 - One of Audubon's Most Dramatic Images
- Lot 0002 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Fish Hawk [Osprey], Plate 81 - The Soaring Acrobat of the Skies
- Lot 0003 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Blue Jay, Plate 102
- Lot 0004 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Summer or Wood Duck, Plate 206 - The Most Famous Image of a Duck Ever
- Lot 0005 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Wood Ibis, Plate 216 - One of Audubon's Genius Icons
- Lot 0006 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Louisiana Heron, Plate 217 - The cover image of Roger Tory Peterson's book
- Lot 0007 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Brown Pelican Standing, Plate 251 - State Bird of Louisiana
- Lot 0008 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Hooping / Sandhill Crane, Plate 261 - A Masterpiece Icon of America's
- Lot 0009 — Audubon Havell Aquatint PROOF PLATE, Trumpeter Swan Adult, Plate 406
- Lot 0010 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Great American Cock or Male Turkey - First Edition, First Issue of the
- Lot 0011 — Audubon Havell Aquatint, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26 - The finest example of this masterpiece known to
- Lot 0012 — Agricola's Book of Metal
- Lot 0013 — The Most Important Atlas of Brazil from the Baroque Age - Baerleus' rerum per octennium in Brasilia
- Lot 0014 — Bateman's Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala - The John Roland Abbey example
- Lot 0015 — Pair of George Bellows Drawings illustrated for H. G. Wells
- Lot 0016 — William Bennett Album of Tibetan Photos
- Lot 0017 — THE VANISHINGLY RARE SECOND EDITION OF BIRCH’S VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA
- Lot 0018 — Birch's County Seats of the United States of North America - The Reese Example
- Lot 0019 — Blaeu Atlas Bound by Albert Magnus and Colored by Van Santen
- Lot 0020 — A Beautifully Detailed Manuscript Book of Hours – Use of Rome, published in Barcelona c. 1490.
- Lot 0021 — Braun & Hogenburg - The First Atlas of the Cities of the World With Splendid Original Renaissance
- Lot 0022 — Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica - “ONE OF THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS IN EXISTENCE
- Lot 0023 — LARGE-PAPER COPY, UNTRIMMED OF BUC'HOZ'S HERBAL
- Lot 0024 — Priscilla Bury's Selection of Hexandrian Plants - The Broughton Example
- Lot 0025 — Mark Catesby's 2nd Edition of The Natural History of Carolina... "THE MOST FAMOUS COLORPLATE BOOK OF
- Lot 0026 — The second edition of Cellarius’ Star Atlas showing modern astronomical illustration.
- Lot 0027 — Champlain 1613 - The First Maps of France by “the first truly scientific cartographer of North
- Lot 0028 — Champlain 1631 - THE du SAUZAY – du PONT – McKINNEY example of “perhaps the most important of
- Lot 0029 — Chrois' Voyage Pittoreque - THE DECKER–STREETER Example WITH ORIGINAL COLOR IN FULL.
- Lot 0030 — Collot's Amerique Septentrionale - The Essential History of the Midwest | THE
- Lot 0031 — A COOK FAMILY SET - THE COMPLETE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK - “THE BASIS FOR ANY COLLECTION OF
- Lot 0032 — David's Tennis Court Oath Chalk Studies
- Lot 0033 — De Laet's Histoire de Nouveau Monde - THE FELNER–BORBA de MORAES–STREETER Example
- Lot 0034 — De Veer's Diarium Naticum - THE BARON STUART DE ROTHESAY–SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS–PHILIP
- Lot 0035 — Du Halde's China - Description geographique historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de
- Lot 0036 — Donne's Poems with Extensive Marginalia
- Lot 0037 — Du Val's RARE ATLAS - THE CARTOGRAPHER TO LOUIS XIV - ONE OF PERHAPS FIVE SURVIVING EXAMPLES
- Lot 0038 — Elliot's Cats - THE WASSENAAR ZOO COPY WITH ALL 11 PART-WRAPPERS BOUND IN BY THE "AMERICAN GOULD"
- Lot 0039 — Evans' Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays w/ 1755 Map -
- Lot 0040 — Gonzales De Mendoza's The Historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China - THE FIRST EUROPEAN
- Lot 0041 — Gould's Birds of Europe - The beginning of the great project
- Lot 0042 — Gould's Trogons FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
- Lot 0043 — Gould's Australia - The Largest and most important work, and the finest of all Australian bird
- Lot 0044 — Gould's A monograph of the macropodidæ or family of kangaroos
- Lot 0045 — "THE TROCHILIDAE OF GOULD IS HIS MASTERPIECE, AND MUST EVER REMAIN A FEAST OF BEAUTY AND A SOURCE OF
- Lot 0046 — Gould's Toucans - THE PREFERRED SECOND EDITION
- Lot 0047 — Gould's Great Britain - the most popular of his works - THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE SET
- Lot 0048 — Gould's New Guinea Birds | THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SET
- Lot 0049 — THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP PROPOSING - THE BALTIMORE AND PORT DEPOSIT RAILROAD
- Lot 0050 — Francisco Hernández's Animalia Mexicana WITH Rerum medicarum Novæ Hispaniæ
- Lot 0051 — Hughes' Natural History of Barbados
- Lot 0052 — Holbein’s Masterpiece Renaissance Map - THE FIRST MAP TO SHOW THE EARTH REVOLVING ON ITS AXIS
- Lot 0053 — Jacquin's Selectarum stirpium americanarum historia - "INDISPUTABLY ONE OF THE RAREST
- Lot 0054 — Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, First French Edition
- Lot 0055 — Joinville's History of Louis IX - BOUND FOR MARIE DE’ MEDICI, QUEEN REGENT OF FRANCE
- Lot 0056 — Wilkins / Nebel Mexican War Drawings
- Lot 0057 — FIRST EDITION OF KEPLER’S OPTICS WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS AND DIAGRAMS BY A
- Lot 0058 — Kepler's Epitome - “KEPLER’S LONGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK
- Lot 0059 — Lear's Signed Watercolor of Venice - Santa Maria della Salute, seen at sunset from the Riva degli
- Lot 0060 — Le Moyne's 2nd Part American Voyages by De Bry - An Early Voyage to Florida by the first European
- Lot 0061 — Pedro De Medina, New World Navigator
- Lot 0062 — Mitchell's Famous 1755 Map of the British and French Dominions in North America - “THE MOST
- Lot 0063 — Moran's The Yellowstone National Park, Framed in 15 Parts - THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT OF THE
- Lot 0064 — Mortier's Atlas Noveau
- Lot 0065 — Neun's RARE VENEZUELAN VIEWS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JACQUES LEVY
- Lot 0066 — Nolin's Le Theatre du Monde - THE LARGEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE ATLAS
- Lot 0067 — A STRATEGIC MANUSCRIPT OF NORTHERN ITALIAN MAPS PREPARED FOR ARCHDUKE LEOPOLD V OF AUSTRIA
- Lot 0068 — Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum - From the Father of Modern Atlas-Making - THE MARTELLI EXAMPLE
- Lot 0069 — “The most complete?? printing of the Ortelius Atlas (Theatrum orbis terrarum) by the father of
- Lot 0070 — THE CHAMPAGNE–WARDINGTON EXAMPLE OF OTTEN’S ATLAS MINOR
- Lot 0071 — Burney's Pacific Coast Watercolor Sketches Album
- Lot 0072 — THE FOLJAMBE SET OF PENNANT's ZOOLOGY, WITH THE MAXIMUM COMPLEMENT OF PLATES
- Lot 0073 — Pike's Expedition - AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN PUBLISHER’S BOARDS - The Spiritual Sister of the Lewis
- Lot 0074 — Ptolemy's Geographia, 1490 - THE CAPILUPI EXAMPLE of An Incunable Ptolemy
- Lot 0075 — Ptolemy's Geography 1511 Edition, the first atals with maps printed in red and black ink
- Lot 0076 — Ptolemy's 1548 Geografia, the world's first pocket atlas
- Lot 0077 — MERCATOR’S PTOLEMAIC AND ITALIAN ATLAS IN BOARDS WITH OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY COLOR
- Lot 0078 — Ramusio's great account of the voyages of the world - THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA–FRANK S. STREETER SET
- Lot 0079 — Candolle / Redoute's Plantarum succulentarum historia [Grasses] - THE FIRST BOOK WHOLLY ILLUSTRATED
- Lot 0080 — Redoute Lillies WITH THE PLATES BOUND ALPHABETICALLY BY GENUS IN EMULATION OF THE RARE LARGE PAPER
- Lot 0081 — Redoute's Choix - THE FAIRHAVEN SET ON LARGE PAPER IN PARTS, IN THE PUBLISHER’S WRAPPERS
- Lot 0082 — A FINE FRENCH ROYAL “RELIURE D’AMOUR?? - THE ROCQUENCOURT—FIRMIN DIDOT—BORDES
- Lot 0083 — Roberts' Holy Land - “THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE 19TH CENTURY?? - THE APOTHEOSIS
- Lot 0084 — Roggeveen's Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland - THE FIRST SEA CHART OF LONG ISLAND FROM THE PREMIER
- Lot 0085 — Ruysch's Conical World Map - THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE DEPICTION OF THE NEW WORLD
- Lot 0086 — Sanson's Atlas, Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde
- Lot 0087 — Sanquirico's Operatic Opus - PRESENTATION COPY TO MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF FRANCE & DUCHESS OF PARMA
- Lot 0088 — Sartine Neptune Americo Septentrional - THE FRENCH-AMERICAN COASTAL ATLAS AT THE DAWN OF
- Lot 0089 — SCHEDEL'S NUREMBERG CHRONICLE - THE ILLUSTRATED INCUNABLE PAR EXCELLENCE
- Lot 0090 — Siebold's Flora Japonica - THE GREATEST JAPANESE BOTANICAL BOOK
- Lot 0091 — Sloane's A voyage To the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the
- Lot 0092 — Solinus De mirabilibus mundi or Polyhistor, with Apian's World Map - THE
- Lot 0093 — Sophianos' Foundational Renaissance Map of Greece - A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED VARIANT
- Lot 0094 — Speer's West India Pilot - WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN THE AUTHOR’S HAND PERHAPS FROM THE
- Lot 0095 — Thornton's Temple of Flora - The Flower of Botanical Books | EX-COLL. THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
- Lot 0096 — Tortorel / Perrissin's RARE COMPLETE SUITE ILLUSTRATING THE WARS OF RELIGION - THE SAUVAGEOT –
- Lot 0097 — THE PERTH EXAMPLE of Trew & Ehret's Plantae Selectae
- Lot 0098 — Tussac's Flore Des Antilles - THE BOTFIELD SET of the FIRST GREAT FLORA OF THE WEST INDIES
- Lot 0099 — Ughi Map of Venice - The first Wall Map of Venice based on an accurate field surveys
- Lot 0100 — Vallet / Robin Jardin Du Roy - “THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM
- Lot 0101 — THE INVENTION OF THE RENAISSANCE - VASARI'S LIVES OF ARTISTS
- Lot 0102 — Ventenat / Redoute - Jardin Malmaison - Josephine's Own Flowers | “among the most important
- Lot 0103 — Vesalius' De Humani Coporis - THE RENAISSANCE OF ANATOMY, THE ANATOMY OF THE RENAISSANCE
- Lot 0104 — Visscher's Atlas Minor - The Widow Visscher's Atlas | EX-COLL. AMSTERDAM MARITIME COLLEGE
- Lot 0105 — Very Rare Example of Waghenaer's Mirror, one of the brightest lights of Dutch Golden-Age mapmaking
- Lot 0106 — Webber Pacific Native American Drawing - A Man of Prince William Sound
- Lot 0107 — Weinmann's Vast Anthology of Plants | 1st Dutch Edition
- Lot 0108 — Wilbrecht SUPERLATIVELY RARE 1802 RUSSIAN MAP OF THE BERING STRAIT - THE HECKROTTE EXAMPLE, ex coll.
- Lot 0109 — Cary’s New and Improved Celestial Globe (1799); Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe (1815, but 1833).
- Lot 0110 — Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe; Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe, 1828
- Lot 0111 — Rossi & Hondius' Terrestrial Globe, 1615
- Lot 0112 — Bonne's Globe Terrestre, 1774
- Lot 0113 — Trippensee School Planetarium, c. 1830s
- Lot 0114 — Smith’s Terrestrial Globe; Smith’s Celestial Globe, 1825
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