George Heriot
Travels Through The Canadas
Found at
Christies,
Paris
The Magnificent Library of Norman Bobins: Part One, American Color, Lot 45
16. Jun - 16. Jun 2023
The Magnificent Library of Norman Bobins: Part One, American Color, Lot 45
16. Jun - 16. Jun 2023
Estimate: 4.000 - 6.000 USD
Price realised: 3.780 USD
Price realised: 3.780 USD
Description
Travels through the Canadas
George Heriot, 1807
HERIOT, George (1766-1844). Travels though the Canadas. London: for Richard Phillips, 1807.
First edition of "the earliest and most important aquatint book published on Canada," with colored plates (Hill). As postmaster-general of British North America from 1799 to 1816, Heriot devoted himself to travel into the western parts of Canada and the United States. He describes the fur trade, his voyages to the North, and cod fishery, devoting the second part of the text to a scholarly study of the Native peoples of the Americas, including Father Rasles's vocabulary of the Algonquin languages. The fine illustrations are all taken from Heriot's own work. Bobins 50; Hill 801; Sabin 31489; Streeter sale 3658 (also colored); Abbey Travel 618 (plates only); see Prideaux, Aquatint Engraving, pp. 254-255.
Quarto (266 x 213mm). Hand-colored folding aquatint view of Quebec as frontispiece, hand-colored folding map, and 26 hand-colored plates, 6 of which folding (some marginal dustsoiling, 2 folding plates with repairs at centerfold and lower edge, one leaf short). 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards.
George Heriot, 1807
HERIOT, George (1766-1844). Travels though the Canadas. London: for Richard Phillips, 1807.
First edition of "the earliest and most important aquatint book published on Canada," with colored plates (Hill). As postmaster-general of British North America from 1799 to 1816, Heriot devoted himself to travel into the western parts of Canada and the United States. He describes the fur trade, his voyages to the North, and cod fishery, devoting the second part of the text to a scholarly study of the Native peoples of the Americas, including Father Rasles's vocabulary of the Algonquin languages. The fine illustrations are all taken from Heriot's own work. Bobins 50; Hill 801; Sabin 31489; Streeter sale 3658 (also colored); Abbey Travel 618 (plates only); see Prideaux, Aquatint Engraving, pp. 254-255.
Quarto (266 x 213mm). Hand-colored folding aquatint view of Quebec as frontispiece, hand-colored folding map, and 26 hand-colored plates, 6 of which folding (some marginal dustsoiling, 2 folding plates with repairs at centerfold and lower edge, one leaf short). 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards.
Auction result misses estimated price range
When the work Travels Through The Canadas by George Heriot was auctioned at Christies in Paris in June this year, the result was somewhat disappointing. The auction house had previously given the estimated price as a range of USD 4,000.00 – 6,000.00, of which not even the lower limit was reached - in fact, the artwork changed hands for USD 3,780.00 (€ 3,461.54). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by George Heriot - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work View of Greenwich, London (Recto); And A River Landscape (Verso), which sold at auction in November 2006 for GBP 5,040.00 (€ 7,484.56).
Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne
Als die Arbeit Travels Through The Canadas von George Heriot im Juni diesen Jahres bei Christies in Paris versteigert wurde, fiel das Ergebnis ein wenig enttäuschend aus. Das Auktionshaus hatte den Schätzpreis zuvor mit einer Spanne von USD 4.000,00 – 6.000,00 angegeben, von der nicht einmal die Untergrenze erreicht wurde - tatsächlich wechselte das Kunstwerk für USD 3.780,00 (€ 3.461,54) den Besitzer. Für andere Arbeiten von George Heriot mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit View of Greenwich, London (Recto); And A River Landscape (Verso) beobachtet, die im November 2006 für GBP 5.040,00 (€ 7.484,56) versteigert wurde.
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