Arader Galleries

Specialties

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.

History

Established in 1985.

The San Francisco Gallery of W. Graham Arader III is located in historic Jackson Square, the city’s antiques district, one block north of the Transamerica Pyramid. The gallery is proud to offer a fine selection of engravings and lithographs focusing on Californiana, images of the 1849 Gold Rush, some of the first maps of Alaska and Hawaii as well as some fascinating city views in addition to our usual fine stock of natural history engravings and antique maps.

Meet the Business Owner

W Graham Arader III A.

Business Owner

Walter Graham Arader III is perhaps the largest and most significant dealer of rare maps, prints and natural history watercolors within the United States. He established his business in 1974, bringing a high-​charged, trading floor mentality to the print market. His business began with maps and Arader is credited with creating a market where formerly there was much less, and of bringing the world of cartography to the collector and not just the purview of academics and librarians. In The Island of Lost Maps, author Miles Harvey credits him with transforming what had been an «insular realm of aficionados,» giving maps «unprecedented visibility, not only as investments… but as mass-​media artifacts.“[1] Arader has brought a similar acumen to the sale of natural history prints, books, and watercolors and is the largest dealer of John James Audubon’s highly-​prized double-​elephant folio prints from The Birds of America.