50 Years
Fine Arts & Rare Books
50 Years
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily
Drawings · Prints · XXth Century
William Hogarth · Rugendas Artist Dynasty · Joseph Georg Wintter
Animals , Hunting , Environment · Fishing & Angling · Horses & Riding
Cartography · Views & Local History · Law / Proclamations · Miscellania
Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884
Autographs & Manuscripts
- The experienced biography
1798 Piano Wrestling – Cook Mehlschöberl – 100 £ from England
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried
Biographische Notitzen & Character Traits and Anecdotes (on Ludwig van Beethoven)
The 1831 original manuscript of the second earliest biography on Beethoven
with important deviation from print - 673,120 mark – but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, b. Häussler - Customs procedure & span of six carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884
Bibliophily
- Comprehendible only today :
Adalbert Stifter, Witiko (Insel edition) - In ruby morocco and here for the first time :
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - La Précieuse Suite
in its one and only copy provable here till now
in ruby morocco cassette :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Hunt for Wild Ducks, Foxes, Badgers, and Wolves - Bibliophily in all the splendor of the imperial & royal Austrian monarchy –
Ritter von Gutmann’s once personal copy no. I of II in vellum :
Ignaz Schwarz, (Catalog of the Ridinger Collection of Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann.) - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 colored full-page sketch-maps + innumerable colored initials
Johann Elias Ridinger
To Whistle the Roe!
Drawings
- Large-sized drawing of the Italianate Hendrik Verschuring
with both the stamps of the collection Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde :
Hendrik Verschuring, Resting Hunters & Falconers - Monogramist B.S., Young Man putting on the Gaiters
- Pictorial ridingschool drawings as paramount rarites :
The original drawings of 1722 to
Johann Elias Ridinger, Redop at the Wall right - Delicate Rococo drawing :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To Whistle the Roe! - A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finished’ Artwork
and precious rarity to the 1895 oil burnt in 1942
Carl Strathmann, Cranes of Ibycus
Hans Holbein II
Self-portrait and that of his Wife
Prints
- Protection from the stroke from the blue sky :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Saint Barbara
Patroness of miners, metallurgical people + tunnel constructors,
gunners + mariners, alchemists, apothecaries + surgeons - With arthistorically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheets - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy, Pont Rustique
- Hans Holbein II, Self-portrait and that of his Wife
- Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight
XXth Century
- “The Four Finest Graphic Collections of the Master” :
Picasso – Catalogues of the Auctions 113 – 133 – 139 – 148 - Special impression in brown on Japanise vellum :
Oskar Kokoschka, Pope Leo X after Raffael’s portrait of 1518 - “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer - “Eminent document” :
Gustave Coquiot, Cubistes, Futuristes, Passéistes - Oskar Graf, Knight
Ensnared by a Procuress
A Harlot’s Progress I
William Hogarth
- The Farmer’s Return
Frontispiece to Garrick’s comedy - So strange :
Shrimps!
The crab-girl - Stirred immense sensation :
Analysis of Beauty. Set of 2 sheets - A little goose for the loving cousins :
Ensnared by a Procuress
A Harlot’s Progress I - The bear as antithesis to “The Line of Beauty” :
Ambigiuos “The Bruiser, C. Churchill” ahead of the Finis
Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Now in many lessons the lively horse …
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Sceneries from 1693–1705 in clair obscur - The monumental equestrian portraits of the victors of Blenheim/Höchstedt :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy + John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - The Anderhub copy :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Diversi Pensieri. Countryfolk mounted/with horse(s). Set of 8 sheets - Graphic unique determined by the softness of its brush technique :
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse …
Joseph Georg Wintter
The Stag of Odd 20 Ends attacked by Wolves
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
and supposedly provable completely here for the first time :
Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing - First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags - Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Stag of Odd 20 Ends attacked by Wolves
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Tiger
Butterflies – Papil. Europ.
1. Fauna – 2. Antiopa
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Rabbit Hunt with Bow, Net + Truncheon - Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Hunting the Wolf with Sword, Pikes and Nets - 121 pages on hunting , 125 pages on hounds :
John Sherer, Rural Life
Described and Illustrated, in the management … treatment … - 290 years old hunting statute
of optically & in its contents of extraordinary dimension :
Patent of Maximilian II Emanuel Elector of Bavaria
on the Comprehensive Improvement of the Game Stock
and the Hunting System in Bavaria - Butterflies – Papil. Europ.
1. Fauna – 2. Antiopa
Nile – Heterotis nilotica.
Westafrican Arowana
Fishing & Angling
- Wrasses – Labrus
- Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W. Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada - Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana
- Angling is the family’s pleasure
for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolzano (Lake Bolsena)
Georg Simon Winter (von Adlersflügel)
Well-experienced Horse Physician
Horses & Riding
- Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Broken down
and now recognized by the cavalryman - Johann Elias Ridinger, A Sledge-Horse with Little Bells
- After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Leads the horseman right body, leg, heel, hand … - Decidedly fine copy :
Georg Simon Winter (von Adlersflügel), Well-experienced Horse Physician - “An admirable work on the subject” :
Henry William Herbert, The Horse of America
Cartography
- Languedoc & Roussillon – the region of good wine :
Carte des Gouvernements Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussillon,
avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guyenne - With large inset of Brazil + local index :
Portugalliae et Algabriae Regna cum Mappa Braziliae Regnum - Carte des Gouvernements d’Anjou et du Saumurois,
de la Touraine, du Poitou, du Pays d’Aunis, Saintonge-Anoumois - Catherine the Great presents Russia’s 3rd own general map :
Russia – Ivan Fomic Truscot(t) (Trescot) + Jakob F. Schmidt
Tabula Geographica Generalis Imperii Russici - France – Vermandois – Veromandvorvm eorvmqve
Confinivm exactissima Descriptio
Views & Local History
- Paris – Le Louvre et la Seine. Vue prise du Pont-neuf
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, St. Goar and Rheinfels Castle
- Diodati
- Special impression in its fine original coloring :
Samuel Prout, At Basle – The Jacob’s Place - Ehrenberg/Lech – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The Barriere at the Castle of Ehremberg (Ehrenberg Castle)
Law / Proclamations
- Proclamation by the (Royal Danish) General Customs Chamber and Commercial Council
in regard of licensing + procedure of a pilot signal flag (Jan. 26, 1825) - Fighting for good and protection of the environment I :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg concerning the increase of sparrow heads to be submitted (1749) - An extraordinarily rare Wedding Gift :
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the procedure of wedding celebrations (1604) - The Stage is the room of a Justice of the Peace :
William Hogarth, A Woman swearing her Child to a grave Citizen - Circular, Regarding the extrapolation of the value of goods, especially in view of pawnee’s rights (1788)
Miscellania
Books – Prints
Philosophical Explication
The Colors to Histories and Heraldics
Books
- Heinrich Mann, Empfang bei der Welt
- Mann – Peter de Mendelssohn, Der Zauberer
- Philosophical Explication, The Colors to Histories and Heraldics
- Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui &
The Deals of Mr. Julius Caesar in First Prints :
Bertolt Brecht – Sinn und Form. Contributions to Literature
Charles B. Lawrence, Mother & Child
Prints
- Balber. Indian Barber with his Utensils (2)
- George Moutard Woodward, Steward – Footman
- Gabriel Metsu, La Riboteuse Hollandoise
- Charles B. Lawrence, Mother & Child
- Instrumens de Mathématiques
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(Mrs. H. J. G., October 19, 2008)
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