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
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General Walter von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers
then the putsch
Autographs & Manuscripts
- It has never been else – always the admirers harass :
Johann Moriz Rugendas, Autograph letter to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel - 673,120 mark – but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, b. Häussler - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
General Walter von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, then the putsch
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William Somervile
The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers
Bibliophily
- Comprehendible only today :
Adalbert Stifter, Witiko (Insel edition) - Hans C. Bodmer’s Hesse Collection :
Hermann Hesse, Water-Colours – Manuscripts – Dedication Copies – First Editions – Letters – Documentation - “The golden age of porcelain” in the édition de luxe :
Nicola Moufang, Old Berlin in Porcelain from the age of Ridinger - In the bibliophile private binding of E. J. Barron :
William Somervile, The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers - First and only edition in one volume,
dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Hans C. Bodmer :
Hermann Hesse, Diesseits – Kleine Welt – Fabulierbuch
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Alexander the Great on the Hyphasis
autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
Drawings
- Splendidly large-sized, splendidly high-graded drawing
and as such exceedingly precious today :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Spring of the Hounds - From the collection Richard von Kühlmann :
Ridinger – Succession. Entering the Deer Park - The Battle of Málaga 1704 ?
Thomas Baston, The Burning of the Enemy Fleet by Fire-Bombs
The vellum drawing by the rare pioneer of English marine painting
together with the engraving - Original design for the Flying Leaves :
Gustav Traub, Carusell Figures and Tight Rope Dancer - When India stopped the West :
Alexander the Great on the Hyphasis autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century
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Jacob van Ruisdael
The Stag Hunt (in Dresden)
Prints
- “Completely hardly ever occuring” :
Pieter Boel, Wild Ducks and Bittern by a Pond - Charles François Hutin, La Marchande de Moutarde Allemande
- In undescribed variant :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Holy Family with Child St. John - Charles B. Lawrence, Mother & Child
- “The best by this master here” :
Jacob van Ruisdael, The Stag Hunt (in Dresden)
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Carl Joseph Bauer
Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
XXth Century
- Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the chaste maiden Helena Asen - 2009 Kunsthalle Hamburg in its turn
congratulates the congratulator-artist :
Horst Janssen, Backhuizen greets Stubbe at June 7, 1988 - André Rouveyre, Head
- (Documentation Catalogues on the Art of the 20th Century)
- Carl Joseph Bauer, Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
William Hogarth
- Resort in bad times :
Consultation of Physicians – Arms of the Undertakers - “To His Majesty the King of Prussia”
A Representation of the March of the Guards
towards Scotland, in the Year 1745 - Gulliver presented to the Queen of Babilary
- (Large) Masquerade Ticket
- “A Masterpiece of Physiognomic Character Portrayal”
Simon Lord Lovat
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Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Prince Eugene of Savoy + John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, With iron bite one may not try at once … - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse … - After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - The monumental equestrian portraits of the victors of Blenheim/Höchstedt :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy + John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
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Joseph Georg Wintter
The Stag of Odd 20 Ends attacked by Wolves
Joseph Georg Wintter
- First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director Georg von Dillis
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Hunter lying in wait for the Stag of 10 Ends
The Stag of 10 Ends barked dead - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Stag of Odd 20 Ends attacked by Wolves
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Wolf Pack among the Cattle, Goats, and Sheep of an Alp - The first graphic St. Hubert of wall-fitting large format :
Cornelis Cort, Saint Hubert - Co-Founder of the Dynasty of Karlsbad Glass Cutters
Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with 6 Puppies - The pendants from one of the rarest sets :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Pleasure of Hunting
Planning, Departure, Refreshment, & Rest of Hunters + Packs - With a provenance story as beautiful as rare
near to the immortal Beethoven :
Johann Georg Bergmüller, IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER
Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus
Fishing & Angling
- Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana
- Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- In a fine library copy :
The Sportsman’s Dictionary
with instructions for angling, hunting, and many more
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Jan van Huchtenburgh
A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen
Horses & Riding
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Pirouette right on a circle
of the length of the horse - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Rubis
- Jan van Huchtenburgh
A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen - Johann Elias Ridinger, Full capriole straight ahead
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Castile – Castiliae Veteris et
Novae Descriptio
Cartography
- Italy – South Italy along with Sardinia, Sicily + Tunisia
- Italy – Central + Northern Italy
L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats - With large inset of Brazil + local index :
Portugalliae et Algabriae Regna cum Mappa Braziliae Regnum - Worked one year after publication of Don Quixote :
Castile – Castiliae Veteris et Novae Descriptio - Languedoc & Roussillon – the region of good wine :
Carte des Gouvernements Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussillon,
avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guyenne
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Rhine views in toned pen lithographs by
Johann Adolf Lasinsky
Views & Local History
- The marvelous panoramic view :
Amsterdam. General view from the seaside - In the original coloring :
Lake Garda – Bernese Defile – Etsch – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The pass of Chiusa and distant Mountains near Belluno and Ossenigo - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Rolandseck and Drachenfels (Siebengebirge)
- A Progressionist among the Rhine Romanticists
on the Dream Route of Old Europe :
Rhine views in toned pen lithographs by Johann Adolf Lasinsky - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Ockenfels
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William Hogarth
Sarah Malcolm, three days before her hanging
Law / Proclamations
- 100 years game law in five succeeding generations :
Hunting Edicts by the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg 1705-1805 - Circular, Announcing a composed work on horse-breeding (1807)
- Commanders of evers and other freight vessels and their sons are exempted from army service (March 7, 1814)
- “Capable of any wickedness” :
William Hogarth, Sarah Malcolm, three days before her hanging - 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)
Miscellania
Books – Prints
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Jean Hellot, L’Art de la Teinture
Books
- Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui &
The Deals of Mr. Julius Caesar in First Prints :
Bertolt Brecht – Sinn und Form. Contributions to Literature - Jean Hellot, L’Art de la Teinture
- Haendel – Romain Rolland, Haendel
- Mann – Jonas Lesser, Thomas Mann in der Epoche seiner Vollendung
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Annibale Carracci
Scopettaro (Brush Seller)
Prints
- A. Smith, Examination of a Village School
- Advertisement of the cigar and tobacco factory LA UNION
of Madrazo y Cia Sucs., Veracruz - Pu-Quà, A Flute-Seller
- Alexander Ver Huell, The Mathematics Examination
- Annibale Carracci, Scopettaro (Brush Seller)
„ Best her Niemeyer, De prenten zijn vanmiddag in goede staat gearriveerd. Alleen al het uitpakken is een genot! Ze zien er prachtig uit (vooral The Idel ’prentice is een juweel) … Wat dat betreft, zijn eigenlijk alle prenten die u mij hebt toegezonde, van uitstekende kwaliteit … “
(Mijnheer P. E., 1. Februar 2008)





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