Rare Book Monthly

Book Catalogue Reviews - March - 2009 Issue

The Latest Features at the Arader Galleries

Arader01-02-09

A recent Director's Report from the Arader Galleries.


By Michael Stillman

We recently received a copy of the Arader Galleries' bimonthly Director's Report. We are slightly behind schedule, as this is the January/February 2009 issue, but the material has not lost any luster with the changing months. The Galleries have six locations in five cities, coast-to-coast across the U.S.A., for those planning a visit. These are a few of the items they featured in this latest report, though there is much more to be found in their specialties of books, maps, art, and related material at the galleries.

They are featuring a pair of magnificent atlases with a notable history in New York. Sir Thomas Egerton was a barrister in Elizabethan England. After an impressive pleading in a case against the Crown, the Queen appointed him Queen's Counsel, one of various legal and judicial positions he would hold for most of his life. Egerton was also appointed to the House of Lords. Egerton continued to serve into the reign of James I, and was named the First Viscount of Brackley in 1616, a late-in-life honor. He died the following year. As a respected nobleman, Egerton would have been a man of means, and included in his library were these two atlases. One is Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales, the other Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. As Arader notes, these two atlases from Egerton's library have finally been reunited after 400 years.

The Houston Gallery features Carl Nebel's hand-colored lithographs prepared for the 1851 publication, The War between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated, edited by George Wilkins Kendall. Kendall, a war correspondent for the New Orleans Picayune, witnessed some of the battles, and visited other battlegrounds shortly thereafter. There are a dozen scenes from the war, eleven of which took place in what is now Mexico, and one, the Battle of Palo Alto, which took place just north of Brownsville, Texas, on present-day American soil.

In San Francisco, the gallery features several drawings of pine and sequoia trees by artist Frederick Catherwood. Catherwood was an Englishman and architect by trade, whose interest in art and exploration took him on many remarkable journeys. In 1824, he was expedition artist on an exploration up the Nile. The late 1830s and early 1840s found him traveling through the jungles of Central America, visiting Mayan ruins. In 1850, he went to California at the height of the Gold Rush. He provided engineering work on the first railway in the state. During this period, he created these striking illustrations. Catherwood left California in 1853, and tragically died in an accident at sea the following year.

The Denver Gallery displays a map of Chicago from the period shortly after the great fire. It was published by Rufus Blanchard, who produced street guides for the area for almost half a century. This is a large, hand-colored lithograph map of the streets of Chicago and nearby areas.

You may contact the Arader Galleries New York office at 212-628-3668 or info@aredergalleries.com. Their website is www.aradergalleries.com.

Rare Book Monthly

  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Collection of a Connoisseur:<br>History in Manuscript, Part 2<br>27 April 2021</b>
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Ronald Reagan. Series of 37 letters to Senator George Murphy, and related material, 1968-90. £50,000 to £70,000.
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Chaim Weizmann. Autograph letter signed, to General Sir Gilbert Clayton, 6 September 1918. £20,000 to £30,000.
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Sir Winston Churchill. Autograph letter signed, to Pamela, Lady Lytton, 1942. £20,000 to $30,000.
    <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Collection of a Connoisseur:<br>History in Manuscript, Part 2<br>27 April 2021</b>
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Oscar Wilde. Five autograph letters signed, to Alsager Vian, 1887. £15,000 to £20,000.
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Napoleon I. Letter signed to Admiral Ganteaume, ordering the invasion of England, 22 August 1805. £10,000 to £15,000.
    <b>Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27:</b><br>Horatio, Viscount Nelson, and Emma Hamilton. Two autograph letter signed, to Catherine and George Matcham, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.
  • <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Frances Palmer, <i>Battle of Buena Vista,</i> chromolithograph, New York, 1847. $4,000 to $6,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, the earliest publication concerned solely with chocolate, first edition, Madrid, 1631. $10,000 to $15,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Romans Bernard, <i>An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775,</i> engraving, 1776. $40,000 to $60,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> <i>A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston,</i> English edition, London, 1770. $12,000 to $18,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> William Soule, <i>Lodge of the Plains Indians,</i> albumen print, 1872. $1,500 to $2,500.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Manuscript document to enforce New York’s “Agreement of Non-Importation” during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty, New York, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Clarence Mackenzie, <i>Drummer Boy of the 13th Regiment of Brooklyn,</i> salt print with applied color, 1861. $3,000 to $4,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b> Moses Lopez, <i>A Lunar Calendar,</i> first Jewish calendar published in America, Newport, RI, 1806. $3,000 to $4,000.
    <b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15:</b><br>The Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, 1830. $30,000 to $40,000.
  • <center><b>Gonnelli Auction House<br>Books and Graphics<br>19th, 20th and 21st April 2021</b>
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21<br>Books from XVI to XX Century</b>
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20<br>Atlases and Maps</b
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21<br> Veneto and Venice, a Selection of Books from the XVI to XX century</b>
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20<br></b>Rossini Gioachino, Baguette de chef d'orchestre appartenuta a Gioachino Rossini, dono del Comune di Passy. 1500 €
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21<br></b>Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo. Cinque volumi. 1767. 18.000 €
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21<br></b>Poe Edgar Allan, Double assassinat dans la rue morgue. Illustrations de Cura. 1946.
    <b><center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21<br>Books from XVI to XX Century</b>

Review Search

Archived Reviews

Ask Questions
https://www.rarebookhub.com/reviews/801
www.rarebookhub.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2021-17
87049
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:2UX3LP4EI3PJF35NCVHF42XOZTBS5XKB
<urn:uuid:ff3c8436-9dbb-4c10-9f16-a8e3b12aa3fb>
2021-04-17T23:46:57Z
3.232.188.189
text/html
sha1:YMG22J36Q4SBXWZUFRDHO555X3VPZEGR
<urn:uuid:569da7e1-1345-43c8-ae3b-dc36afe03131>
https://www.rarebookhub.com/reviews/801
response
<urn:uuid:5244d1d8-0aa0-4c05-9483-31647faac1b8>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-39.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/