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Saxon  from  the  18^th + 19^th  Century

Saxe, Cartes de la Haute, et de la Lusace. Upper Saxony and Lausitz. With title-cartouche and miles indicator. Map by Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), historiograph of the Comte de Artois, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu, Paris. (1788.) 35.6 x 47 cm.

Watermark. – Centred on Leipsic , Dresden finely in the right centre field . – Up to Goslar – Potsdam – Fürstenwalde – Sagan – Greiffenberg – Eger – Schweinfurt – Eschwege .
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GERMAN  UNITY  137  YEARS  AGO

Daumier, Honoré (Marseille 1808 – Valmondois 1879). L’Unité Allemande. The roller of Mars levels out the dead, as there are Württembergers, Badensers, Bavarians, Hannoverans, Saxons, Hesses. Lithograph. (1870-71.) Monogrammed, otherwise as above. 22.2 x 18.1 cm.

Delteil 3831, III (of 3) with ills. of this state. – Careful impression on better paper without the text on the back and the “Actualité” series title.

Worked  in the great style of the last years, omitting all material and “accusing the wrong of the war in symbolic figures only” (Glaser). – See the complete description.
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Saxony – (Saxon States, Map of the Grand Ducal + Ducal.) With title-, 2 explanation-cartouches + small separate map of the western possession of Idar-Oberstein – Birkenfeld – Ottweiler. Detail map by Walther after Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839) in steel engraving by A. Heimburger, coloured in outline. (1833-37.) 23.4 x 27.5 cm.

Rich local references including postal routes + stations, navigabilities, mountain passes, universities + high schools . – Up to Bleicherode – Halle – Penig – Plauen – Münchberg – Thurnau – Haßfurt – Hünfeld – Waldkappel . – Centred on Weimar – Rudolstadt .
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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Evangelische Kirchen Visitation. View through a curtain hold together at the top by rocaille title-cartouche with palm branches onto a meeting of the consistory with Luther and his sovereign at the center of the assembled secularity and clergy disputing and studying writings under the maxim John V, 39 “Look for in the Book” composed “stage-like in the sense of a closed scene” (Schöne). The inner circle at the table in the center, the outer in a wide semicircle. Between the upper windows of the otherwise covered walls paintings to I Sam. VII, 16 / II Kings 11, 1, 4 + 5 / Matt. IX, 35 / Acts VIII, 14 + Acts XV, 36. Etching by Johann Jacob Kleinschmidt (1687 Augsburg 1772). (1727.) Inscribed in the plate: Elias Riedinger (sic!) delin. / Ioh. Iacob Kleinschmidt Sculpsit, otherwise as above. 23.6 x 31.7 cm.

Provenence
Collection  Alfred  Coppenrath , Regensburg,
his  sale  part  II  (Leipsic 1889), no. 1606
and  qualified  there  as

“ Extremely  scarce  broadsheet  in  undescribed  state ”.

That is as proof and state of Stillfried (1876) + Schwarz (1910, Ridinger-Collection Ritter von Gutmann) 1381; Boerner CXXII, 1385 (the copy of Conte Constanza C…..a, Milan, “Utmost scarce”, 1913) + Wend, Additions to the catalogues raissonée of prints, I, 1 (1975), 43:

The picture worked in the context of the “Augsburg Peace Paintings” (1650/1-1789) is intended for the annual gift of 1728. Whereby the accompanying typographic text “is only glued in many cases” (Gode Krämer; in this manner the copies Stillfried, Schwarz, Faber-Castell), and thus printed seperately. With the copy of the Augsburg Municipal Art Collections it is printed on the back of the etching.

The copy here, too, has the text on the back – but it is the text for the “Peace Painting” of 1727 engraved by Steidlin after Thelott!

The title text in much more spacious typography and in a different order, the initial bigger, deviating the order of the text, and additionally with a more reserved border decoration just between the two columns instead of the broad side, middle, and lower borders on the known backside texts of 1727 + 1728 also widely corresponding in their typesetting. Thus

Generally not in Thienemann (1856); Weigel, Kunstlager-Cat., parts I-XXVIII (1838-1857); (Ridinger-)Catalogue Helbing XXXIV (1900, 1554 items!).

Watermark: crown over coat-of-arms. – In the upper left corner of the broad white margin repaired triangular tear of c. 1-1.5 cm, the upper margin with slim trace of dirt, absolutely smoothed center fold not visible from the front, otherwise quite untouched. – On the back 2 columns of 50 lines of typographic text :

“ Friedens=Gemähld ,
Der  Evangelischen  Schul=Jugend  in  Augspurg,  bey  wiederholtem
Danck=  und  Frieden=Fest,  den  8. Augusti  Anno  1727.  ausgetheilet.
Genommen  aus  der  Heil.  Schrifft  und  der  Reformations=Historia.

Following an outline of the history of the reformation, its spreading over northern Europe and its victims.

Besides 79 years Peace of Westphalia the most eminent historical background of the remembrance by the Augsburg Celebration of Peace – and by this cause of the broadsheet – is the bicentennial of

(Meyer’s Konv.-Lexikon, 4^th ed., IX, 781 + X, 1023) by which all began in 1527 or even 1526 according to newer literature.

Stimulated by Luther and since October 1528 also directed by himself through this visitation

“ Saxony  is  the  mother  country  of  the  Reformation .

It  is  SAXONY’S  contribution  to  world  history .

The confessional churches emerging from the reformation Lutherans, Reformed Church, Anglicans and the spiritualistic movements

influenced  the  political,  economical  and  cultural  life  in

Europe  and  North  America ”

(Christian Zühlke, Die Reformation in Sachsen, in Von der Liberey zur Bibliothek – 440 Jahre Sächsische Landesbibliothek, 1996, p. 123).

This is the setting of this broadsheet. Which is generally and at first already

a  Ridinger  rarity  of  prime  rank .

But in the case here pure and simple a

Ridinger  Rarity

of utmost quality! – See the complete description.
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Welcome  at  the  Famous  Place  of  Tradition

Leipsic Fair – Invitation. Rose as opening motif set into fivefold golden line on black ground. Body color. At the reverse design pattern of a typographic invitation design in gold + black as well as rose vignette repeated twice with executed central text

“ Exhibition  at  the  Leipsic  Fair ”.

C. 1920. Inscribed in German as above. 142 x 90 mm.

Elegant  illustration  design  on cardboard. – At the back lower right written reg. no. R. 473. – See the complete description.
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From  the  Century  when  the  Fair  went  on

(Leipsic, Woman from.) 1592. Coloured wood engraving heightened with gold. (1877-84.) 20.5 x 14 cm. – Lipperheide Ad 46. – Leaves for the Knowledge of Costumes NF. 201.

Traditional costume from the century when the fair went on. For the “Leipsic Fairs (developing from the early markets) … obtained only a larger importance when in 1507 Emperor Maximilian I vested the city with the right of staple and depot” (Meyer’s Convers.-Lex., 4^th ed., Leipsic 1889, X, 665/I). And in 1711 Leipsic surpassed the older Imperial Fairs of Frankfort on the Main. – See the complete description.
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(Mandate of Frederick August Duke of Saxony Against the Running About of the Dogs and the Hydrophobia in General and What is to do against it. Along with the annexes “Cause of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite of Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precautions against the Sad After-Effects”). Published Dresden September 7, 1782. Ibid., Electoral Saxon Court-Printing, (1782). Fol. (34.8 x 21 cm). With two vignettes in woodcut. 12 ll. With the printed ducal signature along with the “L(oco) S(igilli)” mark and counter-signatures by George Wilhelm von Hopffgarten + the secretary Chr. Gottlieb Kretzschmar in the same way. Stitched.

File number “Nom: 13.” by old hand on title. – Especially the main part in beautiful, large typography. – Widemarged.

Beginning with the reduction of the dogs in general, regular catching of dogs running about, and the general means of keeping and leading dogs. Further “all dogs have to be cut the so-called mad-worm without exception” by publicly appointed persons and in pharmacies, but also at other places, sufficient medicine “prepared from may-worms” has to be kept in stock.

But of quite outstanding interest the “detailed description” of the causes of the hydrophobia on two pages and, above all,

the  directions  for  the  therapy  of  a  bitten  man  on  8  pages

with all details in respect of cleansing the wound, hygiene, rest, diet – elder-flower-tea – and animated care.

This richness of details makes the mandate to a really good source. Next to the so-called mad-worm that’s elimination – so with a Prussian decree of 1797 – was diagnosed as worthlessly later. And quite especially in comparison with the following 16-page mandate of 1796 (see following nos. 13,082 + 13,083) which attaches importance to the hygiene of animal + man generally as being absent still here. – See the complete description.
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One  of  Ridinger’s  only  two  own  Saxon  motifs :

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This very rare white badger which was speckled with yellow reddish and dark chestnut spots has been dug out and hunted in the park near St. Hubertusburg the 5^th 9bris in the year of 1724. On a pass to the right, certain of its future, and basking in the sun. Behind it rocks and woods, in front wild herbs on low rocks. Etching + engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger (1730 Augsburg 1780). (1763.) Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger inv. del. et exc. Aug. Vind. / Mart. El. Ridinger sculpsit., otherwise in German as before. 35.4 x 26.3 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 316; publications of the ridinger gallery niemeyer 20, no. 54 with ills. – Sheet 74 of the only posthumously completed set of the “Wondrous Stags and other Animals”, together the first of these executed by son Martin Elias, who overcame his father’s weariness starting about 1756 by this. Therefore the caesura given for the work by the

Hubertusburg  “Peace”  Badger

is obvious. The following sheets, also etched by Martin Elias, concern events from 1763 and thus allow for the general chronological classification of the one here, too.

But analogously to the “greeting work” Th. 274 to the return to Munich of the Wittelsbach elector Charles Albert as Roman-German emperor Charles VII in 1744, historically secured by the dating (1744) and the textual actualizing (“Imperial” pleasure seat), and based on its proven anyway near chronological surrounding and thus besides its missing date, the work of the Hubertusburg badger here may be valued, too,

as  being  dedicated  to  the  conclusion  of  peace  there .

In local regard though the zoologically rare badger is together with the equestrian portrait of elector Friedrich August II as Polish king August III (Th. 830; “lived as enthusiastic hunter mostly in Hubertusburg Castle”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4^th ed., vol. II, p. 96/I)

one  of  Ridinger’s  only  two  own  Saxon  motifs .

Marvellous impression of rich contrasts and a warm tone on buff laid paper. On the back surrounding marginal tape from previous framing and a corresponding light streak on the front in the 2.8-5.1 cm wide white margin. Small backed tear lower left.
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(Mandate of Frederick August Duke of Saxony Regarding the Restriction of Dog-Ownership and the Precautions to arrange against the free running about of the dogs and for prevention of the danger to be afraid of rabid dogs. Along with the annexes “Causes of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite by Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precautions against the Sad After-Effects.) Published Dresden April 2, 1796. Ibid., Electoral Saxon Court-Printing, (1796). Fol. (34.8 x 22 cm). With large initial vignette in woodcut and a second one. 16 ll. With the printed ducal signature along with the “L(oco) S(igilli)” mark and counter signatures by Friedrich Adolph von Burgsdorff + the secretary Friedrich Moßdorf. Stitched. Uncut.

File number “Nom. 23” by old hand on title. – Last four ll. with small worm-gallery in the wide white upper margin. Final leaf with two brownspots. – Especially the main part in beautiful, large typography. – Wide-margined.

with direct reference to the previous mandate of September 7, 1782 (see above), “for the purpose was not achieved sufficiently … we have felt Ourselves … obliged … to issue another mandate and in that,

after  the  experiences  made  since  the  publishing  of  the  mandate  above ,

to collect all that what in respect of the subject has to be observed in future”.

Beginning with the reduction of the dogs generally and their keeping and leading the former liability to cut the so-called mad-worm

–  as  diagnosed  as  being  worthless  –  is  no  longer  mentioned  here.

New in the decree, however,

–  and  that  is  the  introduction  of  the  precautionary  quarantine  –

“ for averting the most sad after-effects to be afraid of rabid dogs … each dog-owner … has to observe minutely his one and to lock it in at once if he feels symptoms – as described in annex I – how vague ever they may be. But if the surmise will be true the dog has to be killed immediately. ”

And  thereupon  complete  hygiene  follows  on  the  quarantine :

“ A killed rabid dog … just as all other animals bitten or killed by a rabid dog has to be buried two yards under ground at least – so already per 1782 – and to be covered with lime. Also it is proceeded with caution that nothing is touched with one’s bare hands, but

with  gloves  or  by  help  of  wooden  poles

which instruments are thrown along into the pit … and not in a river or run flowing by. ”

“ All garments, beds, resting-place, and other tools a sick person bitten by a rabid dog and really befallen by the rabies has used, likewise the articles of clothing a rabid dog may have touched when it attacked a person also if it did not bite really the latter have to be burned up or buried in the same way and with the same caution as above. ”

Of outstanding interest furthermore the 3½-page “detailed description by Our Board of Health” on the causes of the hydrophobia enriched by new aspects and enlarged nearly double the size compared with the former one and here, freed of some absurdities, especially the

6½-page  instruction  to  treat  to  a  bitten  person

with all details to clean the wound, hygiene, rest, temperature, food – elder-bloom-tea – and animating care, but not without consultation of a physician or – at least – a qualified bather at the earliest. Compared to the edict of 1782 additionally also

But in such a way

a  medical  and  hygiene-historic  example  of  first  rank .

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Promotion  in  Stormy  Days

Saxony, Captain’s Commission by Frederick August of, for Günther Karl Albrecht August Freiherr von Werthern, Lieutenant 1^st class with the Prince Clemens Infantry Regiment. Handwriting on paper. Done Dresden October 6, 1807. Folio. 2 pp. on a double-sheet. With own-handed signature above large (remounted) paper seal.

Royal coat-of-arms-watermark. – Coat-of-arms charge stamp upper left. – The usual folding traces not much visible since being soothed out widely. Mainly at two spots the sealing wax comes out on the upper side. – With signature of the clerk Carl Friedrich Benjamin K(?)ietsch. – Frederick August the Just (1750-1827), first king of Saxony, was a longtime admirer and ally of Napoleon. This document only few month after accepting the royal dignity after the peace of Posen and joining the Rhine Confederacy.
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(Directions to the Inhabitants of the Towns and the Country regarding the restriction of dog-ownership and the prevention of the danger to be afraid of rabid dogs. Repeating the mandate of April 2, 1796, along with the accompanying annexes “Causes of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite of Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precaution against the Sad After-Effects.) (Dresden) 1797. Sm.-4to (20.5 x 17 cm). 24 pp. Stitched.

File number ”Nom: 24“ by old hand on title. The latter browned, a little dirty and with a small inconspicuous worm-gallery quite minimally touching also the following leaf.

recapitulating the regulations of the mandate of April 2, 1796 which actualized that of September 7, 1782 in partially changed order

in  sentences  as  short  as  pregnant .

Of outstanding interest not least the

10-page  instruction  on  the  treatment  of  a  bitten  person .

Compared to the edict of 1782 additionally also the instruction to first self-help as in 13,082, too.

But in such a way not just showing exemplary the transfer of chancellery’s law into everyday life, but a medical- and hygiene-historic example of first rank. And here additionally attractive as the

string-version  to  hang  out .

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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Deer’s Four Times of Day. Set of the four etchings with engraving. Each inscribed as below. 34.8-35.1 x 28.4-28.9 cm.

Thienemann 238 inscribed with ”J. E. Ridinger Pictor ac sculptor Agustan.“ below of the dedication to the Saxon (Secret) Legation Councillor of the king of Poland and later director general of the Dresden Academies and Galeries, the brother of the poet,

and Thienemann 239-241, with ”J. E. Ridinger fec.“ resp. Additionally above of the oval image whose corners are hatched out:

Morning – Lucem revehit tenebris Aurora fugatis
In a rocky landscape a troop welcoming the new day.

Noon – Sol mediam coeli terit arduus arcem
A troop of three by a strong tree in a forest.

Evening – Ast(e)rifero procedit Vesper olympo
Father, mother and son under the starry sky.

Midnight – Jam medio volvuntur Sidera lapsu
Rutting season at moonlight.

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Kyaw – (The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of His Depth to Those looking at him from above.) 24 lines. C. between 1715 and 1733. Sm. folio. 1 sheet.

Surrounded by a wide setting the quite whimsical poem (broadsheet?) tells the fountain’s story and sings the praise of the beneficialness of its water:

“ … am I now savoury, fresh, and pure / Even better against the thirst than Alicantian wine … / Regale yourself with me, you, my esteemed guests / And don’t be frightened there above since I stand fast below. ”

The dating of this

quite  unique  early  advertising  message

is given by the mention of both Elector August the Strong of Saxony and Friedrich Wilhelm of Kyaw (also Kyau) who was especially responsible for the development of the fountain. As an electoral Saxon major-general in 1715 he became commander of the Königstein where he died in 1733 as lieutenant-general. The very same year as the Elector, a friend to him, and still living when the poem was published since

“ The cup which, as a remembrance, stands here / Elector August himself has turned with his hands / Thus pour out to the health of Him who  still  protects me … ”

The origin by the earthy Kyaw, a “much named man for his wit and rollicking jokes” should be revealed as well by the quotation of August who was fond of him as of his own close connection to the fountain “where he created much still being” (Mr. Poten in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie) that is to be found in the poem itself:

“ The Baron of Kyaw has done my fountain-house / For that neither ice nor snow nor rain touch me. / What for forty years people turned on my base / That my general completed in one year / Hence I am now savoury … ”

Besides not bothering foldings evenly quite lightly browned with only single additionally negligible spots of foxing and age. Otherwise wide-margined, with deep typography and large watermark.

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Witzel, K. (Ed.). (Practical Forestry Guide for Timber Buyers, Timber Industrialists, and Forest Officers. Conditions of felling, stand, wood quality, roads, workers, transportation, lodgings, telephone, postal, and railway connections of the forest offices and districts. After informations by the public head foresters.) 2 vols. Berlin, Parey, 1926. VIII, 432 pp. incl. 4 pp. ads.; X, 496 pp. incl. 6 pp. ads. Orig. cloth with stamped back and front board.

Mantel I, 56 – In German. – Richly commented guide to the east and northern German forests: I: East Prussia / Border March / Brandenburg; II: Pomerania / Silesia /  Saxony  + Thuringia / Schleswig-Holstein / Hannover. – Several stamps and inventory numbers on inner boards, titles, and inside on the lower margin (2 and 6 resp.). – Withdrawn copy of the forestry academy Eberswalde.
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Ruisdael, Jacob van (Haarlem 1629 – Amsterdam 1682). The Stag Hunt. Light woodlandscape with vast marsh through which the par force hunt goes. Animal and figure accessories by Adriaen van de Velde (1636 Amsterdam 1672). Etching in outline washed with sepia by Adrian Zingg (St. Gallen 1734 – Leipsic 1816). Sheet size 43.3 x 57.5 cm.

Nagler, Zingg, 4, II (of II) and, Ruysdael, XIV, p. 101; Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1982, per 37 (ills.), erroneously as in reverse. – Comp. as compositionally near Ruisdael’s two woodlandscapes with marsh/pool Slive 36 with fig. 51 which in their turn quote Roelant Savery (1576-1639) (ibid. fig. 52; Savery catalogue Cologne/Utrecht, 1985/86, 120). Ruisdael as Savery stood sponsor to Ridinger’s Thienemann 282, but 171, too.

counted by Wurzbach (1906/11) among the “most important and most beautiful (of his paintings) that exist” and recorded as the first of the twelve there. As he classifies him practically in unison with predecessors and successors, too, as

And especially in regard of the forest motifs he thinks of the environments of  Cleve  he might have rambled through. And Slive pp. 70 f.:

“ Goethe made no remarks about the Dresden ‘Cemetery’ in the catalogue he annotated during the course of his visit to the Dresden Gallery in 1790 … He did, however, make notes about six other Ruisdaels in the collection.

The  one  which  made  the  strongest  impression

was  the  artist’s  ‘Stag  Hunt’  …

‘Excellent  and  the  best  by  this  master  here’  …

(but) the painting was not cited in his essay on ‘Ruisdael as Poet’ published sixteen years later. The changes in Goethe’s taste for Ruisdael’s work cannot detain us here, but it is worth mentioning that his deep admiration for the artist was a lifelong one, and he collected works by and after the artist. ”

Zingg’s Ruisdael reproduction here in literature the one which. The swamp enlarged compared with the original. With wonderful deepness of the picture

(“He educated a lot of pupils here who generally had to help his own commercial purposes, and established a lively trade with washed sepia drawings and outline etchings”, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XLV, 323). Nevertheless his prints are rare as he “was thrifty with the impressions as he wanted to secure the proceeds for his later years in case of being out of work or becoming weak. Only in 1804 … Tauchnitz induced him to publish his works. They (so then possibly the stag hunt, too) appeared in 4 numbers … before the letter, and … with these … For long he was considered as the greatest landscape draughtsman of newer time, and also his landscape studies were praised as model. In the course of the years he was surpassed by other artists though, and especially obscured by (William) Woollett (1735-1785)” (Nagler; the latter’s “La Chasse au Sanglier” of 1760 in a proof before the letter and with provenences Masterman Sykes, 1824, + Esdaile, 1840, sold here).

His development in namely the coloristic landscape subject Zingg owes to Aberli in Bern who mediated him to Wille in Paris where he stayed for seven years and now learned engraving after paintings, too. In 1766 Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, receiver of Ridinger’s one and only own etched dedication per “The Four Daytimes of the Stags” let him be appointed professor for engraving at Dresden where he stayed for the rest of his life.

As the copies published in colours were often trimmed to the image border under loss of the inscription for getting as close to the original as possible so the one here, too. Margins backed of old on the back by surrounding broad strip of rough paper. Both the upper corners stained slightly anoyingly, but in the tone of the wash. On the left reaching something more into the sky as the closed trace of an 8 cm tear, too. Marginally only, however, the surrounding brown margin resulting from a covering mounting board. The rubbing in the left lower corner overlookable as the light teasing in the right one. Small tear of 1.5 cm in the lower margin as a fine trace of a tear in the outer field of the middle sky part, too. All in all nevertheless still fine, worth viewing and framing.

Résumé :

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Der hiesige Weihnachts-/Neujahrsgruß 2005 endete mit „In diesem Sinne recht schöne Weihnachtstage voll Harmonie und sammlungszugewandter Muße … “ , letzterer Wunsch in einer Grußerwiederung aufgegriffen wurde mit den Worten

„ das Gutwort des Jahres – sammlungszugewandte Muße – wunderbar, hab einigen LBA/Goethefreunden dieses Gutwort genannt. Sie haben in einer verwahrlosten Zeit ein ‚linguistisches Gespür’! “

(Herr R. K., 5. Januar 2006)