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Experts working as your personal curators for the iconic imagery celebrating the fields of art and science from the 16th through 19th centuries.

The world's finest selection of the works of John James Audubon,
Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, historically important maps, natural history engravings and watercolors, lithographs of the American West, Californiana, Hawaiiana and Western Americana,
antique furniture and globes.

06/05/2025

We are collecting stories of what the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum means to you!! Share your story at the link in bio.

10/24/2024

Looking cheerful in the gallery thanks to ! Ready for the homecoming parade tomorrow! ❤️ 🤍⚜️

01/25/2024

Lot 47 in our sale on Saturday.
Bidding open now and link in bio to view the auction:

BRANDES, Jan (Dutch,1743-1808).
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus Haematodus).
Watercolor on paper.
Inscribed ‘1784’.
13” x 8 1/4” sheet.

First Great Study of Natural History in the Indies

The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam now holds many of the Brandes watercolors, and thus this represents a rare opportunity to acquire works by this particular artist.

The spirit of the Dutch Age of Enlightenment is embodied in the figure of Jan Brandes, a Lutheran minister who was employed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In Jonathan Israel’s 1995 publication, The Dutch Republic the author described the Enlightenment as “a shift to toleration, secularization, classification of knowledge, and popularization.” Protestantism, particularly that worshipped by the Lutheran Church, abhorred idolaterism. This was reflected in the secularization of the arts and, thus, the popularization of landscape and still life painting. Jan Brandes was a product of this philosophy and created a valuable collection of drawings of the VOC’s settlements in Java, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

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01/24/2024

Lot 78 in our upcoming auction! Bidding open now, follow the link in bio:

BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and BLAEU, Joan Guilliemius (1596-1673).
Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus. Pars secunda.
Amsterdam, 1655.

The Most Successful Commercial Cartographer of the Baroque Age

An important part of the Latin edition of Blaeu’s “Theatrum orbis terrarium.” Containing fine large maps of “Americae,” “Insulae Americanae,” “Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova,” “Barmudas,” “Nova Virginiae,” “Virginiae . et Floridae,” “Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia,” “.Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan,” “Venezuela, cum. Novae Andalusiae,” “Guiana sive Amazonum Regio,” “Brasilia,” “Paraguay, o Prov. De Rio de la Plata cum. Tucuman et S.ta Cruz de la Sierrra,” “Magellanica,” “Chili,” and “Peru.” Of particular interest is the map of “Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova”: “It’s primary source is the first manuscript figurative map of Adrien Block, 1614. Indeed it is the first full representation of it in print. It is one of the earliest to name “Nieu Amsterdam” (Burden). Publication of this New World Atlas, or “Atlas Novus” was originally begun by Joannes’s father Willem Blaeu with the publication in 1635 of two volumes (consisting of The World, Europe, Arctic, Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Germany and the Low Countries; and France, Spain, Asia, Africa and America), and published in four languages (German, Dutch, Latin and French). After succeeding his father, Joannes Blaeu progressively expanded the “Atlas Novus” to six volumes by 1655, and this formed the first half the “Atlas Maior,” extending to 11 or 12 volumes by 1662. Burden 241 and 242; Koeman I, Bl 24C.

01/23/2024

Bidding is open now for our Winter Auction. Link in bio to browse our sale.

Featured here is lot 53:
RICHARDSON, Theodore J. (1855-1914).
Sitka, Alaska.
Watercolor heightened in white on paper laid down on card.
Signed lower left: “T. J. Richardson”.
15 1/4” x 22 1/2” sheet.

Provenance: Anon. Sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 17 August 2002, Lot 837; Christie’s 29 October 2019 - 2,750 GBP.

The site of the transfer ceremony for the Alaska Purchase in 1867, and an ancient Tinglit settlement, Sitka on the Alaskan panhandle was developed by the Russian-American Company in the early 19th century and was a centre for pulp, gold mining and fish canning in the early 20th century. Richardson depicts the old Russian governor’s house, Baranof castle, on the mound, and a Tinglit village on the left. Born in Readfield, Maine, Richardson made a specialty of painting Alaskan scener

01/19/2024

GIANT map of Alameda County in our January Auction.

Bidding is open now! LINK IN BIO to learn more

HAVILAND, P. A. (20th Century) & CARTER, F. H.
Official Map of Alameda County, 1915 California.
Commercial blueprinting on white paper.
Oakland: Oakland Blue Pint Company, 1915.
50” x 84 1/2” visible, x 53” 87 1/2” framed.

Commercial Blue Printing on white paper, Published by the Oakland Blue Pint Company, with original linen backing by WS Hutchinson and Co. A working cadastral map of Alameda County, at large, with land ownership, lots lines and acreage, as compiled and defined by P.A. Havilland, the county surveyor of the time. A really clean example of the official approved county map for 1915, with one small paper loss and a tear or 2. useful today as it was in 1915 . Also from the Sanders Collection of maps for American title in Oakland, CA.

01/15/2024

Bidding is now open and our auction includes these large scale yet delicate orchid lithographs. Link in bio to learn more
BATEMAN, James (1811-1897).
Stanhopea Tigrina, Plate 7.
Lithograph with original hand color.
From “The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala.”
London: J. Ridgeway, 1837-1843.
28 1/8” x 21” sheet.

Stanhopea tigrina nigroviolacea ‘The Predator’ FCC/AOS – An incredible orchid species from Mexico.

From the Largest, Heaviest, but also the Finest Orchid Book ever Issued. The Text is also sound for growers.

10/31/2023

This will be fun!
Link in bio for tix

Stevenson's Wh**ky Tasting - November 17th
On Friday, November 17th, join us at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum for the return of our Stevenson Wh**ky Tasting!

This is a special event wherein we get to celebrate the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, born on November 13, 1850, by sampling some unique whiskies surrounded by the art and artifacts of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum!

The evening will feature a curated selection of six whiskies from areas where Stevenson lived and travelled. There will also be some light fare to enjoy alongside your wh**ky.

Tickets for the Stevenson Wh**ky event are limited. We encourage you to purchase your tickets as soon as possible! All ticket holders must be 21+ and be prepared to show identification if requested. Only ticket holders will be allowed into the event.

We encourage all guests to make a dinner reservation following the event at one of the many fine restaurants in downtown St. Helena. Many restaurants are walkable from the RLS Museum.

09/04/2023

Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Rosa Gallica.
From: Les Roses, Paris, 1817- 1824.
Stipple engravings with original hand-coloring.
Sheet size: 18.50 x 13.25"

LINK IN BIO to view this lot and explore more of our carefully curated timed auction event, where you will find starting prices as low as $60. Bidding is now open!

09/03/2023

Edward Lear (1812-1888).
Psittacula Kuhlii. Kuhl’s Parakeet.
From: Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots. London, 1830-1832.

Lithographs with original hand-coloring Sheet size: 21 X 14.50" Edward Lear's Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, a total of 42 hand- colored lithographed plates, was issued in a limited edicion of 175 copies between 1830 and 1832. Working in the zoological gardens in Regent's Park in London, Lear was the first to draw his birds from life. Lear’s publication was innovative in several significant ways. Unlike previous bird artists, he drew whenever possible from life rather than stuffed specimens, thus combining anatomical accuracy and subtlety of detail with the pose and expression of the living, moving bird. Lear also employed the relatively new medium of lithography which, by dispensing with the need for professional engravers, allowed him to retain complete artistic control over all stages of his work. This, the first large-folio bird book completed in England, and the only separate ornithological work produced by Lear, marked an important turning point in the history of natural history illustration, ushering in the transition from engraving to lithography as the preferred medium.

CHECK THE LINK IN OUR BIO to view this lot and explore more of our carefully curated timed auction event, where you will find starting prices as low as $60.

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Saint Helena, CA
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Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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