Profoundly important Icons of Natural History and Cartography, With special essays by America’s leading Geographer, Professor John Rennie Short.
Highlights of the sale include:
The Most Important Map in American History - one of only two examples of the first issue of the first edition, the other is at the Library of Congress.
The Only Watercolor Left on the Private Market by Emporer Franz Josephs’ Royal Watercolorist.
The Illustration for the Most Famous of all English Nursery Rhymes by Edward Lear.
The first view of the Potomac river by George Washington’s favorite artist - Another example of Beck’s oil of this subject hangs at Mount Vernon.
The earliest available map to name the newly discovered continent “america”.
One of the most striking maps from the golden age of cartography.
Audubon’s Most Iconic Image.
Catherine de Medici; Mother of a Queen & Three Kings of
France including.
The Only Life Portrait of Abraham Ortelius,the producer of the first modern atlas.
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Arader Gallery
1016 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
40.7759349, -73.9627771
Arader Galleries Auction
