Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Horse’s Upper Jaw-bone as seen from below. Fully executed study in grey and brown water colours over silverpoint. Inscribed by old hand in brown ink at the lower left: Oberer Pferdekiefer. C. 1765. 257 x 145 mm.

Set into an acid-free passepartout with gilt stamped artist’s name and dates. – Fully executed study on fine slightly toned handmade paper. – Besides an “Animal Jaw Drawing” of 1718

of extraordinary artistic and collectable fascination, unparalleled in Ridinger’s handed down work of drawings and prints. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,861  /  price on request

Grunenberg, Arthur (Königsberg 1886 – Berlin 1927). Rossebändiger (Horse Tamer). Suite of lithographed title and

11  (instead of 12)  chalk  lithographs

(18-23.5 x 21.5-27 cm), 10 of which inscribed below right in pencil: A. Grunenberg. (Berlin, Wasmuth, 1922.) With lithographed written sheet contents. In orig. h. vellum portfolio (33.5 x 43 cm) with lithographed ills. front cover together with title + author.

Thieme-Becker XV (1922), 146; Vollmer II (1955), 325. – Exhibitions: Kunstsalon J. Casper, Berlin, May 1914 + Galerie Arnold, Dresden, March 1927.

One of 40 copies on untrimmed thin Japan and, lithographed title and contents sheet, Japan vélin.

1. Dioscuri (first sketch) – 2. Dioscuri (second sketch) – 3. Absalom – 4. Amazon looking out – 5. Injured Amazon – 6. Stallion taming – 7. Horse Tamer (replaced, see below, and therefore not signed) – 8. Restive Horses – 9. Bolting Stallions – 10. Bolting Stallion – 11. The Tamed Stallion (inadvertently not signed) – 12. Morning Ride .

Without sheet 7, “Horse Tamer”, for which the supposedly identical which itself is not the same as the front cover illustration, was trimmed with loss of publisher’s address and presumably numbering – known here a copy once on the market numbered “XXIII/40”, missing on its part the lithographed contents sheet – to the smaller format of the suite itself, consequently it was not mounted under boards either. The latter original passepartouts, not always fitting anyway and regarded as responsible for isolated trifling foxspots in the mostly white field (only sheet 4 generally slightly touched), were replaced by foil-protected mounting on acid-free light cardboard. – The portfolio foxspotted, but scarcely on the front-cover with its fine large representation (15.5 x 13 cm) between the writing in chalk.

The  splendid  suite  present in impressions of deep black, due to the edition of great rarity – so then also not in the hippological Sarazin Collection, Basel, covering 1527 till 1930 and dissolved 1999 – , as reverence by the artistically so singularly brilliant early German 20^th century to milleniums-old equestrian culture, exemplified by the opening sheets of dioscuri (“Sons of Zeus”) + Absalom (son of David) . Just as the set as a whole directly follows the 1921 painting

“ The  Dioscuri  taming  the  Horses ”.

“ (Grunenberg) preferred as motifs the rider and the dancer and danseuse resp. Uses mostly red chalk or chalk.

Excellent  portraitist  of  the  horse  in  motion . ”

(Vollmer). – The latter then here fascinating up to the final sheet, the back scene of the morning ride whose rider is accompanied by two runners. A unique composition of bodily animation. Embraced by the motion of flat-like trees. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,145 / EUR  2000. / Export price EUR  1900. (c. US$ 3007.) + shipping

The  Racing  Place  in  Royal  Panoramic  Size

Henry Barraud (1811 – London 1874). Punchestown 1868. Royal Visit. In front of the grandstand in impressionistic colours the gentlemen with horses, jockeys and trainers. Coloured steel engraving by Thomas L. Sangar for Thomas Cranfield in Dublin. 1870. 48.6 x 101.4 cm

Splendid item in impressionistic fine colours and of a wonderful horse design. Thieme-Becker XXIX, 408 mention only the 1867 Punchestown Races after Henry B. and in the Mellon collection there is only the somewhat smaller Amesbury Champion Coursing Meeting as the only one by the Barraud’s (Snelgrove p. 46). – On light cardboard. – A little age-marked. –  Rare  item. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,288 / EUR  2400. / Export price EUR  2280. (c. US$ 3608.) + shipping

Huchtenburgh, Jan van (Haarlem 1647 – Amsterdam 1733). A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen. Dominated by the ending duel in front, whose throng has been joined by single horse. Etching after Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels 1632 – Paris 1690). Inscribed: AF. V. Meulen, jn, et ex, cum priuilegio Regis. / V. HB. f. Sheet size 15.4 x 19.3 cm.

Nagler, Monogramists., V, 1210 mentioning the sheet; Catalogue Davidsohn II, 830. – The brilliant , though somewhat time-marked impression of the J. H. Anderhub Collection, partly with tiny(est) up to even 5 mm wide margin, partly trimmed to platemark or, so partially above, to the border of the image. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,612 / EUR  298. / Export price EUR  283. (c. US$ 448.) + shipping

Paris, Alfred Jean-Marie (Tarbes 1846 – Fontaine-Bonneleau, Oise, 1908). Nice. Two gentlemen and trainers resp. talking at the side of the racing place. In the back of the two groups a horse led by the jockey and rich scenery. Watercolour over pen and ink. Inscribed: AP (ligated) 12.4.79, otherwise as above, upper right: “IV”. 210 x 281 mm.

Atmospherically very charming item, presumably worked for an illustration. – On strong paper. – On the back traces of previous framing, otherwise absolutely fresh. – Quatrain and distich in the lower margin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,275 / EUR  445. / Export price EUR  423. (c. US$ 669.) + shipping

John Frederic Herring Sen. (Surrey 1795 – Meopham Park 1865). Evening. Horses ridden to the village’s pond for watering after the day’s work. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris (John H. II, c. 1791-1873?). 1849. 55.8 x 72.5 cm. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,164 / EUR  700. / Export price EUR  665. (c. US$ 1052.) + shipping

Pony, An English. After return from hunting fastened to the home by his master, where the accompanying hound already quenches its thirst, while a second one joyfully rushes up. To the right the silhouette of a longly placed locality at the foot of a dilapidated castle. Steel engraving. Ca. 1835. Inscribed as no. XXVI, otherwise as before in German along with the address of the Art Establishment of the Bibliographical Institute. 16.3 x 20 cm.

Dear, as pony representation in addition more rarer motif with the beautiful, sensible mount as center. – With the full platemark not measuring with, as rather more seldom for steel engravings, and left-sided stitch-margin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,826 / EUR  75. (c. US$ 119.) + shipping

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Anno 1740. this Noble Horse, a White Horse spotted with light and dark brown, also grey spots, with black extremities, marked at ears, mouth, and thighs, has been painted from life

in  the  imperial  riding-stable  at  Vienna .

Stepping out, in dominant pose in slightly hilly landscape with three further horses in the middle-distance, one of which resting. Etching and engraving after August Querfurt’s (Wolfenbüttel 1696 – Vienna 1761) painting from life. (1745/46.) Inscribed: 44. / Aug. Querfurth. pinx. / J. El. Ridinger Sc: et excud., otherwise in German as before. 34.7 x 27.9 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 286. – Sheet 44 of the Wondrous Stags and other peculiar Animals. – “The six horses which are contained in the collection have been sold separately later.” – Brown or mold spot in the sky part barely noticeable from the front. – Very fine toned impression on light laid paper with wide upper and lower margins of 6.2 and 6.5 cm resp. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,600 / EUR  860. / Export price EUR  817. (c. US$ 1293.) + shipping

Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Assembling for the Ride. Two large companies in setting-out movement. Two brush drawings in varied grey up to brown over pencil.  Not  before  1730 . 190-193 x 237-238 mm.

On toned light HONIG laid paper, one of which with the cut word mark C & I HONIG as in use since 1730 and used by Rugendas also for his signed spectacular drawn “Cavalry Battle before the Fortress” of 1738 from his bequest (Biedermann, [Master Drawings of German Baroque], Augsburg 1987, no. 173 + Rugendas catalog Augsburg, 1998, ills. 22), there in addition with fleur-de-lis arms and the countermark IV standing for the French partner Jean Villedary (his own mark “IV ILLEDARY” on the younger Georg Philipp’s drawing of 1736 here).

At the back lower left numbered by old in brown ink 191/92, but barely originating from a sketchbook (“All drawings [in Augsburg] origin from dissolved sketchbooks”, Held, Gg. Ph. Rugendas, 1996, p. 121, as come to there 1855 with the family bequest after the death of the Brazilian Johann Moriz), though by its format corresponding with such as Gode Krämer imparts for these especially two obvious standard formats of Rugendas’ of c. 18 x 25 and c. 20 x 33 cm resp. (op. cit. Rugendas catalog p. 27). As throughout plain detail studies, frequently on both sides, they are out anyway, also those sheets lack any earlier numbering.

The chronological aspect set by the watermark, however,

For according to Krämer the “fact (goes) that except for the Berlin stock (of drawings in red chalk connected with the mezzotint production), some smaller and larger drawings for large thesis sheets and preparatory drawings similar to these for portraits of princes

practically  no  drawings  after  1720  were  found ;

and above all from the lack of any preparation by drawings for the paintings started again from 1735”. With the exception of just the above cavalry battle as being “quite at the end of his œuvre of drawings … secured for 1738 by signature and date” (op. cit., p. 34/III).

But also “composition studies – and just such one the one here is – have not survived that much and none which is to be joined directly with a later execution”, so Gode Krämer before on the group of small sketches of figures and parts of figures in chalk and pencil (p. 28/I), and as the latter obviously also is true for the pair here. Yet recourses to earlier works are obvious.

The  second  one  of  the  drawings  presents itself by its optical reference to the first in composition, technique, size, and paper as pendant, supported also by the numbering at the back. Above all, however, it is dominated by the same “general”, though here in walk to the left straight ahead and in such a manner with visible sword. In the absence of a left-sided neighborhood he looks into the distance there. And contrary to the general of the siege-scenery riding a piebald here then

quoting  Wouwerman  mounted  on  a  white  horse  on  both  sheets

as mark of dominance. Rectangular to him a lady in the side-saddle whose outstretched left, but only this, quotes the sutler riding a mule of the siege-etching Teuscher 35. And quite marginally the outstretched right of the horseman outside left reminds of that of the left horseman in Teuscher 32.

To the knowledge here, agreed with after review of photos by Dr. Krämer, custodian em. of the Municipal Art Collections Augsburg and curator of the above 1998 Rugendas exhibition, per oral utterance, at the same time remarking that, as here, the closely and prominantly seen group also were a characteristics of the late paintings, they are according to all the above

And when with respect to the quality of his painting Held mentions “his already early marked talent for

tender , atmospheric  moods

which mitigates the (there) martial content of his pictorial themes” (p. 142), so just likewise present drawings are determined by

the  softness  of  their  brush  technique ,

deliberately still raised by the toned paper ground. The latter then also partially absorbs the browning particularly at the back of about 4 cm of the respective right margin of the subject as well as with the second sheet 3 cm at the lower margin front side and conveys as not improper patina of three lively centuries. Otherwise of impeccable final freshness.

That these Rugendas in addition are of  civil  picture content inevitably makes them additionally wall-efficient (averted from the sun!) for today’s horse-fancier and with regard to the due to the period in their majority martial scenes especially desirable for the collector. For

“ Rugendas’ interest in horses is … (just) not only conditioned by the martial theme of his work. It is also consequence of a hippological interest growing since the 16^th century that manifests itself especially in the 17^th century in numerous illustrated textbooks on the ‘high school’. Now and then these were illustrated by well-known battle painters as e. g. Charles Parocell ”

(Held, op. cit., page 127).

Actually “the great draughtsman Rugendas” (Krämer) was a horse depictor in general plain and simple and

“ without doubt a first-rate talent, for not to say, a genius. Doubtless, set under better conditions, like living in the Netherlands about 1650, an artist … who would have

surpassed  all  his  horse  and  battle  competitors ”

(Wilhelm Schmidt 1889 in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. XXIX, page 600).

Whose sets of prints are “a true dictionary for the draughtsman of horses”, so already Meusel 1803 in his “Biography of the Battle Painter Georg Philipp Rugendas” (after Held, p. 126).

And for the immediate 18^th century the painter colleague Ferdinand Kobell brought his esteem drastically to a T in his statement of 1771, by which he differentiated the artistic Augsburg of the previous generation exemplarily: “only a pity that at such a place a Ridinger – and Rugendas have lived” (Decultot and other ed., Joh. Gg. Wille, Correspondence, Tübingen 1999, p. 486).

For  the  latter  then  here + today  two  pendant  drawings  of  rank  and  beauty . And

Offer no. 15,181

From  Baron  von  Eisenberg’s  Famous  Riding  School

L’Arabe. On small plateau to the left. In the background sparse hills, on the right on rocks a citadel. Colored engraving by Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 – Amsterdam 1733/34). (1727.) Inscribed: VII., otherwise as above. 22 x 30.3 cm.

Plate 7 of Eisenberg’s “Description du Manége Moderne” published first in 1727 and therefore the last one of the introductory engravings on the horse races and in such a manner with reserved scenic accessories as completely omitted in the lessons. – On fine laid paper, uncut below, laterally 4 cm wide. – At the back quite weakly browned, below of the hind legs small thin paper spot, otherwise of very fine freshness.

Eisenberg , his activity as equerry in London in 1728, later in the Low Countries, in Vienna, and finally in Pisa in 1753 aside unknown in his living circumstances, became immortal by his comprehensive riding school, however, published first in 1727, much requested through the centuries and therefore re-issued again and again, in whose “center … the image (is),

The text is limited to short explanations” (Dietrich Fröba in the 1993 exhibition catalog “Horse and Rider in Five Centuries – Treasures from the Library of the German Horse Museum” on a French edition of 1733, no. 11).

the representations in their sparseness wanting in accessories are not without artistic model though, reminding of not that much dating back works by, e. g., Potter, Berchem, or Romeyn, recognized as modern and enthusing just for that. Considered comprehensively Eisenberg’s plates therefore could well be seen as standing in the aftermath of the Netherlandish art of the 17^th century.

Picart , the “most important and together most productive engraver in the French-Flemish region at the beginning of the 18^th century” (Fröba, op. cit. p. 28), lived in Amsterdam since about 1710 where he also got married in 1719. Furthermore he might have been a grandchild of that Parisian flower painter and dealer Jean Michel Picart, whom Gerson, Spreading and Aftermath of Netherlandish Painting of the 17^th Century, pp. 57 + 59, mentions as port of call for the Netherlanders pressing onto the market there, and with whom especially Willem Kalf was well acquainted with.

Present Bernard Picart, however, “established his fame (in Amsterdam), both by the works he presented and a flourishing school in which he trained many artists” (Nagler). – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,150 / EUR  249. (c. US$ 394.) + shipping

Le Hardi. In mid-air to the left. Engraving by Picart as before. Inscribed: XLIV., otherwise as above. 22.2 x 30.3 cm. – Plate 44 of the set as before, here with white margins above + below 1.3, laterally 2.1-3 cm wide. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,151 / EUR  225. (c. US$ 356.) + shipping

Le Sensible. Leaping to the right between the pillars. Inscribed: XLV., otherwise as above. – Plate 45 as before, here with white margins 1-1.5, on the right 4 cm wide. – Feebly brownspotted, two fine, completely smoothed out longitudinal folds. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,152 / EUR  189. (c. US$ 299.) + shipping

La bonne force. Freely leaping to the left. Inscribed: XLVI., otherwise as above. – Plate 46, here with white margins 0.5-1.7, on the right 3.5 cm wide. – Of great freshness. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,153 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Ballon. Leaping high to the left. Inscribed: XLVII., otherwise as above. – Plate 47, here with white margins 1.2-1.6, on the right 3.9 cm wide. – Completely smoothed out diagonal fold above of the horse’s head + rider, otherwise of great freshness. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,154 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Dificile. In stretched leap to the left. Inscribed: XLVIII., otherwise as above. – Plate 48, here with white margins above + below 1.3-1.6, laterally 2.1 and 3.1 cm resp. wide. – At the back isolated feeble foxspots barely perceptible from the front. Only far right at the edge of the subject three smaller and in the white margin one slightly larger spot noticeable. Irrespective of this dynamic sujet of fine freshness. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,155 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Pegase. In stretched leap to the right. Inscribed: XLIX., otherwise as above. – Plate 49, here with white margins 1.1-1.7, on the right 3.9 cm wide. – On the left and below feebly browned in the white margin, otherwise of great freshness. – Splendid impression of rich contrasts. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,156 / EUR  225. (c. US$ 356.) + shipping

L’Aimable. In stretched gallop to the left. Inscribed: L., otherwise as above. – Plate 50, here with white margins 0.9-2, on the left 3.3 cm wide. – Tiny tear in the white lower margin backed acid-freely. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,157 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Rubis. Galloping to the right. Inscribed: LI., otherwise as above. – Plate 51, here with white margins above + below 0.7-1.6, laterally 2.3 cm wide. – Very fine impression and of great freshness. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,158 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Poupon. To the right. Inscribed: LIII., otherwise as above. – Plate 53, here with white margins 1-2, on the left 3 cm wide. – Quite feeble brown spot at the horse’s left fore hoof. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,159 / EUR  189. (c. US$ 299.) + shipping

Le Grand. To the left, pressed down onto the hind legs. Inscribed: LIV., otherwise as above. – Plate 54, here with white margins above + below 1.3-1.5, laterally 2.3-3 cm wide. – The white lower margin in the outer parts somewhat browned and on the left with feeble creasing barely reaching into the subject. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,160 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

Le Joli. To the right, pressed down onto the hind legs. Inscribed: LV., otherwise as above. – Plate 55, here with white margins 1.2-1.7, on the right 3.5-4 cm wide. – Completely smoothed out vertical pressure mark. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,161 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 313.) + shipping

“ A  Large  Number  of  Fine  Horses ”

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Par Force Horses are led onto the Rendezvous. Endless train of saddled horses led by the grooms mostly three by three out of the wood onto the clearing. From right two hunting carriages come along. Etching and engraving. Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German as above. 31.2 x 47.9 cm.

The Par Force Hunt of the Stag III. – Thienemann + Schwarz 51; Weigel, Art Stock Cat., 4a + 16545 (“old now only seldom occurring impressions”, 1847!); Stubbe, Johann Elias Ridinger, 1966, pp. 15 f.

“ A large number of fine horses, usually three saddled ones side by side, led by the groom in the center, are on the long train to the rendezvous. There is much life and Ridinger’s master hand knows to bring variation into this life ”

(Thienemann).

Extensive 8-line subtext in German. – Marvelous impression on strong laid paper with wide margins of laterally 4.7-5, above and below 3-4.8 cm. – In the left lateral margin the publisher’s two pricks. In the upper margin a tear reaching up to the platemark backed acid-freely just as some further smaller ones.
Offer no. 15,174 / EUR  1290. / Export price EUR  1226. (c. US$ 1940.) + shipping

Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Three horsemen. Two galloping, the left one walking. Pen drawing in black over pencil. Lower right inscribed with black pen in italics: G. P. R. 1703. 121 x 173 mm.

Nagler, Monogramists, III, 279: the italics are to be found on drawings. – Mounted by old. – Laid onto large brown collection carton (43.4 x 32.5 cm) with white lining + wide stamped margin with German inscription “Collection Campe”, below “Georg Philipp Rugendas / Augsburg 27. XI 1666 - 19. V. 1742 / Pupil of I. Fischer (recte Fisches) / Famous Battle Painter.”, all in slightly paled white. – Predominantly in the white field feebly foxspotted, entirely disguised by the speed of the picture.

This terrifically communicating speed of movement of the latters additionally increased by the comparably quiet outside left as antipole. Coming along absolutely unpretentiously this sketch, considered by Campe as worthy of his collection, reveals with a bang “the great draughtsman Rugendas” who must have been

“ tremendously  sure  of  his  ability

in  the  field  of  horse  drawing ”

so Gode Krämer in the 1998 Augsburg Rugendas catalog with regard to a plenty of detail studies in which “there never are horses under the riders” (pp. 27 ff.).

Created from military experience

in  the  year  of  war  1703  as  so  decisive  for  Augsburg

within the Spanish War of Succession with especially its siege + occupation by the French-Bavarian troops (Dec. 15, 1703 – Aug. 16, 1704), it survived several more attacks of the same kind and

with  its  300  years  now  here  and  today  passes  the  market  once  more

with a meantime stay in the old “famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe collection of drawings”. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,180  /  price on request

Trainer, The / What seems difficult to us practice makes easy. At two pillars with the instructor in front and, set back a group of observers, one of them with horse waiting for his own action. Engraving, probably by Jan or Caspar Luyken, Amsterdam, for Chr. Weigel in Nuremberg. Ca. 1700. 13 x 8.7 cm.

From Abraham a Santa Clara’s “Something for All” (1699 + 1713), but possibly already worked for the Ständebuch of 1698, which both had several editions each. – With 6-line subtext in German. – Paper abrasion in the range of breast and arms of the rider less perceptible for the unarmed eye.
Offer no. 28,615 / EUR  39. (c. US$ 62.) + shipping

In  a  Variety  of  Movements  not  known  anymore

Georg Philipp Rugendas I (1666 Augsburg 1742). Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Sceneries from 1693 to 1705. Series of 48 leaves. Engravings in clair-obscure by Johann Christian Rugendas (1708 Augsburg 1781). Ca. 1740. Broadside-fol. Contemporary half leather on 5 ribs with leather edges and marbled covers.

Compare with Nagler, Joh. Chr. Rugendas, 5-17. – Omnibus volume subdivided in 24 suites numbered from a-x (g = 2 x) as a main part of these works after the father. Printed on uniformly strong laid paper of 24 x 36 cm the individual sizes of the engravings differ between 10.2-21.7 x 10.5-32.4 cm dominated by a medium size of ca. 17 x 24 cm.

Excellent collection of those works which have marked Rugendas father as draftsman of horses graphically so incomparably, uniquely reproduced in the special manner of clair-obscure printed from two plates with ochre-like base colour, printed over with dark brown and the paper for the lights. By this of an extraordnary painterly charme.

The quite essential former world of the horse, driving back the battle scenery itself and excitedly disclosing the uniqueness of the horse.  How  a theme artistically overwhelmingly has been worked here these clair-obscure engravings of Johann Christian reflect. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,223  /  price on request

London Horse & Carriage Repository, Gray’s Inn Road, NW + SE View of the. Richly arranged court views. 2 sheet. Steel engravings by William Deeble (GB since before 1814) after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1^st half of the 19^th century). 1828. 11 x 14.8-15.1 cm.
Offer no. 9,196 / EUR  76. (c. US$ 120.) + shipping

Steeple Chases de 1868, Vainqueurs des. Review of the 8 winners of the 1868s steeplechases. Coloured and glazed lithograph for Lemercier in Paris. (1868.) 26 x 42.3 cm.

The centre fold hardly visible only. Some mould stains on the back. – With the names of horses and owners. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,217 / EUR  399. / Export price EUR  379. (c. US$ 600.) + shipping

His  Horses  influenced  by  Wouwerman

Hendrik Verschuring (Gorkum 1627 – near Dordrecht 1690). Resting hunters, partly dismounted, with their hounds in front of an inn where the innkeeper welcomes a  two-horse  carriage. One of them with a  falcon  in his right and enthusiastically accompanied by his dog hastening into the landscape (probably the Italian Campagna). Brush-drawing in several shades of grey wash and a little black over traces of black chalk. Signed at lower left with the grey brush: H. verschuring. f.. 250 x 348 mm.

Provenance: Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde, with his both stamps lower right and on the added former old mounting resp. (Lugt 1041 b + c: Des deux marques ci-contre la première servit jusqu’en 1920, la seconde à partir de 1921. Elles figurent seulement sur les meilleures feuilles). – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,863  /  price on request

With  Parrocel’s  Famous  Riding  School  Suite

La Guérinière, (François Robichon de). École de Cavalerie; Contenant la Connoissance, l’Instruction, et la Conservation du Cheval. 2 vols. Paris, Par la Compagnie (des Libraires), 1756. 8 unnumbered ll., 319 pp.; 2 unnumbered ll., 300 pp. With engraved author’s portrait + frontispiece and

33  (4 folded)  engravings

(19 x 12 and 19 x 24.5-26 cm resp. leaf size) by (14, among which the folded engravings) + after Charles Parrocel (1688 Paris 1752). Contemporary calf binding.

Mennessier de La Lance II, 28. – Fourth octavo edition of the

fundamental  Riding  Instruction  of  the  Royal  Equerry

and founder of several riding schools, originally published in smallest format and without illustrations in 1729 and repeatedly republished well into the 19^th century.

Bound fittingly to the text the suite starts with 24 half-page dressage scenes on 12 plates which are followed by 8 full-page, together portrait-like executed works. The four large folding plates with summary dressage overview as well as one each richly opened up by numbers for the outer parts of the horse, its skeleton, and for the sick animal. Bound in-between as fitting finally 9 engravings bridle, horseshoe, tools, and schemata.

The rubbed bindings slightly bumped at corners and edges as well as with few minor burst offs and worm traces. Front joint of vol. I and that of the backcover of II above and below each torn on 2-3.5 cm, but at most only minimally penetrating the interior, otherwise of absolutely intact binding whose red-brown marbled floral fly-leaf together with inner cover shall be mentioned especially. The white back of the fly-leaves and the white final leaf of II browned, evenly feebly still portrait, frontispiece, and title of II as well as one of the folding plates top back. Leaf 169/70 of I with old backing of the margin. Otherwise virtually stain-free copy with multiple interesting old owner’s mark: Both frontcovers with coat-of-arms bookplate von Haugk on the interior, back of fly-leaf of I with written buyer’s note of Glogau (supposedly 18)42 and on both titles written “M. Troost. 1881. Capitaine”.

Shortly, positively up to the binding with its rich gilt-tooled back and the red backplates a roundly fine copy of this indispensable work with its Parrocel illustration setting the standard both artistically and hippologically as a value sui generis. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,149 / EUR  1730. / Export price EUR  1644. (c. US$ 2602.) + shipping

Sportsman’s Dictionary, The; containing Instructions for various methods to be observed in riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, hawking,  breeding  and  feeding  horses  for  the  road  and  turf; the management of dogs, game and dunghill-cocks, turkeys, geese, ducks … and the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents. Improved and enlarged by Henry James Pye. 5th ed. With 17 copperplates. London, John Stockdale, 1807. 4to. VII, 547 pp. Fine dark-brown h. leather on 5 ribs with ruby red covers, broad leather corners, red back-plate, gilt and blindstamped lines, and coloured fly leaves. Brown edges.

Souhart 389 f. – The plates instructively illustrating angling – bird-catching + -hunting and all kinds of nets , baskets + weit-baskets for fishing , small game + wolf hunting. – Two names on the fly leaves. – Also in regard of the binding a fine, mostly nearly impeccable copy. – See the complete description.
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Bürde, Friedrich (Breslau 1792 – Detmold 1849). Alcides was bred from Allahor and Emma in the Frederick Wilhelm Stud-farm in the Year 1812, he is light brown and 5 feet 4 inches high. Standing to the left with the finely drawn brand. In the middle distance in full width of the image three groups of accessories with 25 horses together, six and five resp. of them in the centre + on the right standing, resting, grazing, while to the left a throng of 14 lets of steam. Etching, partly with dry point. Inscribed in German: painted from life and etched by F: Bürde 1823. 3^rd issue / Berlin, for Simon Schropp & Comp., otherwise as above. 38.2 x 50.6 cm.

Thieme-Becker V, 194; Nagler II, 198. – Not in the Sarasin Collection (1999). – From the 3^rd issue of the “Illustrations of Excellent Horses which are in Royal Prussian Stud-farms … ”. Complete here not traceable on the market. – Correspondingly to the sheet-size (53.2 x 69.2 cm) with wide margins and here, treated acid-freely, besides three longer marginal tears of 3.5-4.5 cm the one or other minimal one. Small corner tear off upper left. Three/four tiny traces of crease in the white field above of the stallion. – See the complete description.
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– – Bayard in the Frederick William Stud-farm bred from Turcmainatty and Dersagrena in the Year 1802; 5 feet 1 inch high, dark brown. Standing to the right. With tree/shrub accessories and small architecture with tower in the middle distance. Etching, partly with dry point. Inscribed in German: painted from life and etched by F. Bürde 1822. 3^rd issue / Berlin, for Simon Schropp & Comp., otherwise as above. 38.2 x 50.4 cm.

From the 3^rd issue as before. – Correspondingly to the sheet-size (53.2 x 69.2 cm) with wide margins and here acid-freely repaired small tears, only two with 2-2.5 cm somewhat longer. – See the complete description.
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In  Rare  Corner  Margin  Blocks  of  Four

Horses. After engravings by Old Masters (1 coloured). Series of 5 postage-stamps as upper right corner margin blocks of four. Ed. by the Czechoslovakian postal authorities. April 21/24, 1969. Steel engraving by Bedřich Housa (b. Prague 1926) together with autotype rotogravure. 12 x 8.5 cm (4.72 x 3.35 in.).

The five motifs – all corner margin blocks of four – in the sequence of their value as following :

Hendrik Goltzius (Venlo 1558 – Haarlem 1617, -.30) – Matthäus Merian (Basel 1593 – Schwalbach 1650, -.80) – Vaclav Hollar (Prague 1607 – London 1677, 1.60) – Albrecht Dürer (1471 Nuremberg 1528, 1.80) – Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767, coloured, 2.40 Kcs.).

The  highest  value  of  the  set  and  the  one  and  only  in  colour , too ,

showing the title sheet of the master’s majestic 18-sheet set “New Riding School”, called also Large or Viennese School of 1734. Preceded by Dürer’s “Great Horse” as according to Mende Alexander with Bukephalos. – See the complete description.
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– – The same, but each value as single copy of 5.4 x 3.3 cm (2.13 x 1.30 in.).
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Hunting Horses, English. Two hunters on horseback along with a three-pack at a lattice. Steel engraving by F. Hirchenheim(n?). Ca. 1835. Inscribed: XXXII / F. Hirchenheim (elsewhere Hirchenhein) sc, otherwise as before in German along with the address of the Art Establishment of the Bibliographical Institute. 16.7 x 19.7 cm.

With the full platemark not measuring with, as rather more seldom for steel engravings, and left-sided stitch-margin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,825 / EUR  64. (c. US$ 101.) + shipping

Rodensteiner, De. The knight with his suite riding hard across country, feared by the peasants hiding in the grain. Toned wood engraving after Gottfried Franz (Mayence 1846 – Munich 1905) for A. Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-76.) 17.8 x 23.9 cm. – From the about contemporary Dutch edition.
Offer no. 9,458 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 79.) + shipping

(Interlake, At the Bridge in.) With horses in and by the horse-pond. Toned wood engraving after Paul Meyerheim (1842 Berlin 1915) for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-77.) 20 x 24.8 cm.
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Menuisier en Voitures. View of the workshop and numerous detail depictions. Set of the 17 (1 double full-page) engravings of the carriage joinery by Robert Benard (Paris 1734 – after 1777, recte rather ca. 1786) from the quarto edition of the famous encyclopedia by Diderot and d’Alembert. (1784.) C. 24.5 x 18.5 and (1) 35.5 cm resp.

Instructive  set. – Small + smallest tears concerning nearly exclusively the white margin and quite isolated, just in one case recognizable thin paper spots backed acid-freely. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,111 / EUR  220. (c. US$ 348.) + shipping

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This Young Tiger-Horse bred at

Orange=Polder ,

a village not far-off Delft in the province of Holland, had this black ear-bouquet like the other spots and has been bought as a rarity for a very high price by the Silesian manorial family count Promnitz during their

Dutch  voyage

in 1743. The stallion in wonderfully light exercise in a beauty hilly landscape with village standing separated from five horses partly romping and rolling and looking at the viewer. The side-inverted copper-printing-plate after the painting from nature by the amateur artist baron Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern in Darmstadt. Inscribed: Lib: Baro de Löwenstern ad viv: pinx. Darmst. / J. El. Ridinger sc. et excud. 1745, otherwise in German as above. 35 x 28.5 cm.

The  original  printing-plate

to sheet 38 (etching + engraving, Thienemann + Schwarz 280, “The six horses contained in this collection later had been sold also separately”) of the “Representation of the Wondrous Stags and Other Animals”

Here traced back far beyond Thieme-Becker (vol. XXVIII, 1933, p. 308) seamlessly directly to the master’s estate itself. And therewith correcting Thienemann (1856) who declared the plates of the Wondrous as being deprived. But so a collector’s object of quite especial preciousness. For original 18^th century printing-plates are,

as  well-known  to  related  literature , a  great  rarity ,

especially, too, those executed by Ridinger and his sons on a high technical and qualitative standard, that are preserved very partially only. Among these also the 12-plate “Paradise” set acquired by The Augsburg Art Collections and shown in their 2001 exposition of important acquisitions of the last decade.

That  the  one  here  the  master  has  worked  alone

should be mentioned expressly. Just as documented by inscription. – The original number “38” restored again on occasion of a later 19^th century edition after it had been removed for a separate set in the mid-twenties.

Sheltered from environmental influences by varnish the plate is printable generally in the ordinary course of its use during the times. But it is offered and sold as a work of art and an object of collecting. Thus without prejudice to its final printing quality. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,946  –  incl. fittings for timeless-elegantly frameless hanging

From  the  Own  Stables  fresh  onto  the  Table

Cham (= Amédée Charles Henry de Noé, 1819 Paris 1879). Six heures et demie. — Les chevaux de Madame la Marquise sont sur la table. Servant entering the drawing-room of his mistress and asking to dinner: horse meat from the own stables. Chalk lithograph. (1870-71.) Inscribed: CHAM / 104, otherwise typographically as above. 21.9 x 17.5 cm.

Worked for the Charivari during the war of 1870-71 and here present in a contemporary impression without text at the back. – Small feeble foxing spot in the white field beside the table lamp. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,790 / EUR  148. (c. US$ 234.) + shipping

Rue, F. R. de la (Paris middle of 18^th century – after 1780). Battle Horse under an Officer with Raised Sword in the Right. Bouncing ahead to the right. Etching by August Friedrich Winkler (Geyer/Saxony 1770 – 1807). Inscribed: A. F. Winkler f. / de la Rue. 20.8 x 16.9 cm. – As before, but margins 1.5-9 cm wide. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,618 / EUR  98. (c. US$ 155.) + shipping

– – Head Portrait of a Bridled Horse from front. Still with sketched breast part. Etching by August Friedrich Winkler (Geyer/Saxony 1770 – 1807). Inscribed: A. F. Winkler f. nach de la Rue. 16.4 x 11 cm. – As before, but margins 1.5-12 cm wide. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,619 / EUR  56. (c. US$ 89.) + shipping

Wouwerman, Philips (1619 Haarlem 1668). Saddle Horse at the Oats Trough. Broadside to the right looking at the beholder. Below of the trough the feeding bag. Etching by August Friedrich Winkler (Geyer/Saxony 1770 – 1807). Inscribed: A. F. Winkler f. / Phil. Wouwermans. 12.5 x 17.3 cm. – As before, but margins 2-8 cm wide. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,617 / EUR  125. (c. US$ 198.) + shipping

251  Years  Old  Medicus  Hippologicus

Winter (von Adlersflügel), Georg Simon. (Well-experienced Horse Physician, Who instructs thoroughly how to diagnose the Horses’ Complexion, Nature, and Age, cure all Interior and External Diseases, and preserve the Sound Horses from all Imminent Deficiencies.) Furnished with an appendix of some rare

medicines  found  excellently  well  for  young  colts

and improved through and through, and enlarged by the most well-tried arcanis, by Valentin Trichter, well-installed Riding Master of the Republic of Nuremberg. Embellished with plenty necessary engravings, that is with

44  folded  engravings  on  35  plates .

In German. Nuremberg, Joh. Andreas Endter, 1757. 20 unnumbered leaves title, preface, contents, 838 pp., 9 unnumbered leaves index. Contemporary calf-binding.

Title in red & black. – The  FIRST  EDITION  CONDUCTED  BY  TRICHET  for the original publisher of this classic, published in folio for the first time in 1678 and long-lived up to the German edition Philadelphia 1840, whose engravings, lead by a plate of instruments of 27.5 x 38.5 cm, are dedicated to anatomic details, clinical + treatment pictures and here corresponding in number and kind with those of the first edition (double full-size plate with instruments + 45 text engravings), here besides three not counted with numbered I-XLI and if applicable joined to larger plates as appropriate to the text. – The

“Richly  illustrated  horse  medicine  with  many  recipes”

(Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub, 1963, no. 367 [this edition])

in  decidedly  fine  copy ,

only particularly front inner cover & fly-leaf and already negligibly still the title foxed, otherwise only occasional tiny spots. Introduction with decreasing small worm trace in the lower inner margin as also at the slightly worn-out capitals of the back. The edges of the frontcover pushed.
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Mouly, Marcel (Paris 1918 – Paris). Dragon-Slayer. Colour lithograph. (1970.) Signed. 48.5 x 44 cm. – No. 53/150 impressions. – On d’Arches hand-made paper with margins up to 19 cm. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,168 / EUR  299. / Export price EUR  284. (c. US$ 449.) + shipping

Wood Paddock (in Pomerania). Mare with foal, but also a cow, on the pasture passed by a carriage and pair. Wood engraving after Johannes Gehrts (St. Pauli/Hamburg 1855 – Dusseldorf 1921). 14.1 x 18.5 cm. – BACK: Shepherd with his Flock. Wood engraving after G.’s picture of 1880. 12.6 x 10.5 cm. – Continued local text on both sides.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (Redop left at the Wall.) The dapple-grey horse jumping. Etching + engraving. (1734.) Inscribed: avec P. S. C. M. / Joh. El. Ridinger inv. des. et exc. A. V., otherwise in French-German-Latin parallel text as before. 54 x 39 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 639. – New (or Vienna) Riding School VII (Th., dated, leaf 12). – Typographic watermark. – Additionally to the fine white plate margin with still c. 8 mm surrounding paper margin. Above in this a little tear backed acid-freely. –  The  sovereign  sujet  of the  majestic  set.
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Drawn  –  Cut  Up  –  Pasted  In  –  Saved

Wintter, Joseph Georg (1751 Munich 1789). Biting Horses, driven apart by the groom. Stallion in vivacious movement to the left, biting a half covered second one into the mane while this takes his revenge by a bite into the forehand. Hurrying from the right the groom with the whip. Chalk and pencil drawing, the richly hatched attacking stallion additionally executed in black pen. (Before) 1781. 268 x 387 mm. – At the back: I. Stag of eight points, standing, to the left. Pencil drawing. Inscribed: JW (ligated) inv. 1781 / JGW (ligated) inv 1781. 230 x 184 mm. – II. Stag of ten points, standing from front left. Pen drawing. Inscribed: 135 / JGW (ligated) inv 1781 / JGW. (ligated) inv 1781. 213 x 201 mm.

Lower left red collector’s mark “G” in square (not in Lugt). – At the front seven points of previous corner mounting of the stag studies on the reverse, four of them still with vestiges of the grey-blue mounting paper. Only one of these spots though unessentially affecting the drawing by touching the groom’s foot. Lower centre below of the shadow hatching thin paper spot from nearly imperceptibly removed eighth mounting point. – Cut up vertically in about the centre by Wintter for the two backside stag studies. These two halves additionally – obviously for reason of proportion – shortened at the top and bottom resp. and mounted in an album. Assumedly Wintter himself removed them after 1783 (see below) and glued them together again with strips of laid paper, adding the missing parts, though not concerning the drawing of the horses, by strips from further studies. One of the laid paper strips besides with the covered German inscription “Drawn from nature by JGWintter the 28 august ao. 1783”.

The differing arrangement of the replacement strips – upper left, lower right – proving the priority of the horse drawing. The use of further study sheets up to the mentioned strip with the inscription of 1783, a procedure barely chosen by a collector, also points to Wintter as rescuer of his own drawing. Therefore this way not just

And while in the groom we meet again thematically the hunter also acting from the right in a bison hunt of 1785 with the provenance von Kühlmann and Schäfer sold here, so the technical condition of the sheet has a predecessor in “Mr. Blaeu makes maps with glue and scissors”. Since in 1635 this was behind the competitor Janssonius with both the maps of Rhine + Danube he hastily printed the respective rough parts of Rumold Mercator’s wallmap of Germany of 1590 passed to him, and then reworked these accordingly with scissors and glue. Used so only in the German edition of the atlas of that year a pair of these cimelies has been sold here in the 60s. – See the complete description.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (A Frisian Horse.) Longtailed, the right back hand angled, selfconfidentially to the right in a landscape bordered by an estate. Etching + engraving by Johann Gottfried Seuter (Augsburg 1717 – 1800). Inscribed: 3. / a J. El. Ridinger ad vivum depict: et exc: a(t)qu(e). J. G. Seuter (step) filio meo aeri incisi and title in German-French-Latin. 28.3 x 34.4 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 578. – Leaf 3 of the four plates of the set of the “Nations of the Horses” numbered Arabic as remained unknown to Thienemann + Schwarz in whose arbitrary order it figures as 17. – See the complete description.
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Turf. Gentleman with cigar + silk hat in his left, his right pointing to the staggered field of 6 riders. Brush drawing by monogramist R. C. 1920. Monogrammed by own hand. 130 x 207 mm.

Illustration design for a cigar-box on cardboard. – Lower right autograph reg. no. C. 406. – Traces of mounting on the back.

Stylistically closely connected with Ludwig Hohlwein (“Beside Th. Th. Heine the most important poster artist of his time”, Vollmer), whose 1909 portfolio “Turf” may have been influencing. – See the complete description.
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Rugendas, Johann Moritz (Augsburg 1802 – Weilheim/Teck 1858). (Horses from the Royal Bavarian Stables. Drawn from Life and etched by J. Moritz Rugendas. Son. AUGSBURG, 1820. Published by J. LORENZ RUGENDAS. Father.) 6-sheet set. Etchings. 1819/20. Sm. oblong fol. (plate size 16.6-18.2 x 23.2-24.4 cm). Inscribed with the respective names in the lower white platemark and, if applicable, with signature + date, see below, in the lower subject. In old heavy laid paper cover with mounted title cutting of the blue-grey original wrapper.

Teuscher 986-991 incl. illustrations not knowing the title (“Stallions, Set of 6 sheet”). – With the exception of T. 986 not in Stillfried. – Respectively one copy without title in Augsburg (State and University Library, colored) + Stuttgart (State Library). – The single sheet of the Munich printroom proven by Stillfried (1879) lost in the war. – Lacked in the important collections of books and portfolios on horses and horsemanship of Anderhub (1963) + Sarasin (1999).

Thematically picking up a family tradition for which the great-grandfather Georg Philipp I stands, of whom Wilhelm Schmidt wrote in the ADB in 1889 “a first rate talent beyond doubt, for not to say a genius. Doubtless, set into better circumstances, e. g. living in the Netherlands about 1650, he would have become an artist who would have surpassed all his horse and battle competitors”. As Mori(t)z after first fatherly training went into apprenticeship with Albrecht Adam, who on his part established an artist’s dynasty of horse and battle painters. In 1817 the admission into the Munich Academy followed where he devoted himself to the genre and landscape field under Lorenz Quaglio II. From those early years Teuscher probably lists only eleven graphic works after own invention (984-993 + 1311 as the portrait of the father), at which especially Nagler’s opinion – “fine sheets” – points in the Künstler Lexicon (XIV, 1845, items 1-2):

With the set here as center piece which in just the unawareness of

the  cover  title  obviously  documented  here  for  the  first  time

Hämmerle defined vaguely in 1937 as follows:

“ This set should be a question of the stallions or racers known at that time, presumably the origin of the suite goes back on an idea of A. Adam ”

(Albert H., [The Last Painters Rugendas, in Quarterlies for Art and History of Augsburg], 1937/III, pp. 1-110, note 51).

Four sheets above and below 1.5-2.7 cm (one only 1.5-1.8) and laterally 1-1.5 cm (one up to 1.8) wide-margined, two laterally 0.4-0.7 cm and only 1-2.5 cm and 1 cm resp. for above and below. The white platemark on its part mostly 1 cm wide. – Throughout only isolated weak little foxspots nearly solely in the white margin, only one sheet somewhat more and in three edge corners additionally with weak waterstreak as at one corner at a further one, too. – Three sheets with a 2.5-3.5 cm long tear out in the lower right margin repaired by old, in two cases including the white platemark wholly and half resp. A further one with two minimal tears outside of the platemark there. Nevertheless a good copy, indeed, worthy to increase your collection, first of all in respect of generally absolute rareness, but then and just as a dot over the i in respect of

the  original  cover  title  as  not  provable  in  literature  hitherto .

Whose very touchingly family text regarding creator/publisher makes the coming up of that additionally just to an event.
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The  significant  1^st  Third  dedicated  to  the  Horse

John Sherer. Rural Life. Described and Illustrated, in the management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, etc. etc.: Their Treatment in Health and Disease; with authentic information on all that relates to Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling … and a complete system of modern veterinary practice. With 5 woodcuts in the text and  88  steel  engravings  on 64 (3 folded) plates. London + New York, London Printing and Publishing Comp. (ca. 1870). 4to. Engraved title, XVI, 1016 pp. Orig. gilt and blind tooled leather on 4 ribs.

Not in Schwerdt. – Binding somewhat rubbed and timemarked, lower capital with a little leather defect on 1.5 cm length. – One quire (pp. 889-896) twofold bound in. – Frontispiece and the engraved title quite slightly waterstained. Otherwise of fine freshness except for only very isolated smallest mould stains.

The plates mostly with pictorial sceneries – among them races and huntings – , but also with anatomical and technical details. – Concentrated on hunting (121 pp.) – dogs (125 pp.) with a significant third of  364  pages  horses:

The Horse, and Modern Veterinary Practice / Of Horses in General / Races / Economy of the Stable / Diseases, Fractures, Wounds, etc. / Surgical Operations / Veterinary Department, or Medicines and their Uses.

Further articles on cattle, sheep, pigs + poultry (together 273 pp.), bees (9 pp.), principles and machines of modern farming (42 pp.), gardening (68 pp.), angling (14 pp.) and index (4 pp.).
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The  Horse  in  Old  Frameworthy  Circulars

Circular of the royal & imperial district authority Kornneuburg of the V.U.M.B. concerning the horse-furnishing compensation for the years 1812 and 1813. Jan. 8, 1814. Sm. fol. 1 l. With 2 printed signatures. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,245 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 73.) + shipping

– of the royal & imperial Lower Austrian district authority St. Pölten, announcing a composed work on  horse  breeding  in the country. November 21, 1807. Sm. fol. 1 l. With printed signature of district captain Anton Leopold v. Roschmann. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,242 / EUR  86. (c. US$ 136.) + shipping

– of the same, concerning the sale of discharged horses. September 4, 1809. Sm. fol. 1 l. With printed signature of district commisioner A. v. Portenschlag. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,243 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 95.) + shipping

– of the royal & imperial district authority Klagenfurt concerning the burial of military horses fallen on the street. March 10, 1810. Sm. fol. 1 l. With printed signatures of Franz Xaver v. Fradeneck + Wolfgang Edler v. Wolf. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 10,749 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 95.) + shipping

Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Leads the horseman right … . Open riding place on the back of the stables with manifold actions. Mezzotint. Inscribed: Georg Philipp Rugendas invent. del. fec. et excudit, and quatrain in German. 48.5 x 65.5 cm.

Teuscher 68 + ills. (by printer’s error 40.5 cm, without number); Stillfried 347. – Plate 1 of the 8-leafed riding school T. 68-75 + Nagler 44, here in a supposedly later state  with  the number 1 in small half circle at the lower picture edge, as the copy of the Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich, too.

With surrounding margins of 1-1.7 cm. – Harmonious impression with fine lights and shadows though from the overall somewhat used plate as quite acceptable for mezzotints allowing  – so the contemporary expert Sandrart – just about 50-60 really good impressions.

Extremely  rare, the leaves of this set are missing, i. a., within the c. 27,600 lots of Weigel’s Art Stock Catalogue, parts I-XXVIII, 1838-1857, the Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub with rarities like Ridinger’s Riding School in imperial oblong dissolved in 1963, and the Sarasin Collection (1999). – See the complete description.
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– – – Now … in many lessons … . In the open ring a white horse galloping at the longe bound at the pillar. Mezzotint as before. – Teuscher 69 + ills. (without number); Stillfried 348; Schoenbeck, Das Pferd und seine Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst, plate 33 (detail) (see p. 8). – Plate 2 of the set  with  the number as above as the copy of the Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich, too. – Three (one nearly imperceptible) box pleats from print. Five up to thick pinhead-sized holes not recognizable from the picture side. – See the complete description.
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– – – Familiarizing to the Saddle. Putting on and accustoming to the school saddle without shoes, work with the wooden bites. Placed back other training scenario. Mezzotint as before, but quatrains in Latin + German.

Teuscher 122 + ills.; Stillfried 359. – Leaf 5 of the 12leaved (or 3 à 4 leaves resp.) Horse Dressage T. 118-129. – Not in Nagler. – Only little conspicuous from the front the smoothened creasing. Here also nearly not noticeable a larger backed tear in the text margin lower right with minimal retouched loss of letters. Some more little holes not recognizable, two of these also backed.  Extremely  rare. – See the complete description.
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– – – The Trotting. Besides further rich horse scenery a young horse ridden at the longe around the pillar and followed by another horseman. In the background farmers at work. Mezzotint as before. – Teuscher 124 + ills.; Stillfried 361. – Leaf 7 of the set. – Smoothened creasing nearly not noticeable from the front. Equally not a pintip-fine hole. – See the complete description.
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– – – The Gallop. Young horse in full gallop at the longe. Not least thanks to threatening chambrière. Embedded in and before further actions. Mezzotint as before. – Teuscher 125 + ills.; Stillfried 362. – Leaf 8 of the set. – Of fine general impression determined by bright lights as especially remarkable for mezzotints. – The left platemark squeezed through and backed. Smoothened creasing not noticeable from the front. Likewise not closed box pleat in the lower left field, already outside of the scenery. Far lower right missing spot disposed of by strengthening and retouching. – See the complete description.
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Krüger – Osborn, Max. Franz Krüger. With preface ed. by Kerstin Englert. 1997. 4to. 32 pp., 1 l., pp. 33-112 (text). With 115 (8 – 4 full-page – colour) mostly full-page illustrations. Orig. cloth.

Unchanged new edition of Osborn’s as learned as fact-rich monograph on the  “Horse-Krüger”  of 1910.

“ Thematically concentrated on Franz Krüger as portrait painter, Osborn directs his attention especially on the … (large-sized) parade and group pictures (of the years 1829, 1839, 1844, 1849) ” .

Offer no. 28,191 / EUR  115. (c. US$ 182.) + shipping

Constantin Balassa. Die Zähmung des Pferdes. Rationelle Behandlungsart der Remonten und jungen Pferde überhaupt und der bösen, verdorbenen und reizbaren insbesondere. (Taming the Horse. Rational Treatment of the Remounts and young Horses at all and the bad, spoiled, and irascible in particular.) With grandly printed  7  really  instructive  folded  lithographs  (21 x 31.5 cm). Vienna, Gerold, 1835. XIV, 467, 1 pp. Rubbed contemp. half leather. Green edges.

Huth 126. – A new edition was published in 1844. – Missing within the Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub dissolved in 1963 and making itself generally scarce. – Title and both the two following and the four final leaves differently foxing, otherwise mostly slight spots in places only, and generally of great freshness. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,586 / EUR  391. / Export price EUR  371. (c. US$ 587.) + shipping

Landseer, Thomas (1795 London 1880). „What ho! does the Devil arrive! then we needs must get on.“ Two monkeys galloping on an ass. Inscribed: Drawn & Etched by Tho Landseer 1827, otherwise as above. 20.6 x 16.4 cm.

From the Monkeyana set, one of the only few early and therefore typical works of Landseer. – On especially wide-margined buff paper. – In the white margin quite weakly foxing. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 10,826 / EUR  197. (c. US$ 312.) + shipping

From  now  on  „Henri  without  Horse“

Cham (= Amédée Charles Henry de Noé, 1819 Paris 1879). Ce pauvre Henri IV voyant emmener son cheval chez le boucher. Standing on the pedestal of his memorial and looking awkwardly after his horse carried away on a cart to the butchery on the other side. Only the laurel-wreath remained for the king. Chalk lithograph. (1870-71.) Inscribed: CHAM / 130, otherwise typographically as above. 22.6 x 18.4 cm.

Worked for the Charivari during the war of 1870-71 and here present in a contemporary impression without text at the back. – Small foxing spot in the white field above of the trees behind Henry’s back. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,785 / EUR  138. (c. US$ 218.) + shipping

The  Fullness  of  Riding  amidst  a  Par Force Hunt

Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, named Carle Vernet (Bordeaux 1758 – Paris 1836). (La chasse au cerf.) Suite of 24 leaves. Engravings by Gamble (21.2-22.8 x 30.2-30.9 cm). Ca. 1804-1814. Contemp. half leather with gilt back and brown marbled covers.

Vernet’s extraordinarily scarce 24-plates-suite of the par force hunt as the magnificent accord with instructiveness, variety and richness of pictures, dominated by an infinitely splendid aspect of horses due to the artist’s nature. Vernet was infatuated with horses. – The uniformly fine printing quality not least affected by the fine handling of light and shadow. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,049  /  price on request

Henry Bernard Chalon (1770/1 London 1849). Orville 1799. The golden-brown champion with his master in outlined broad landscape with farm in the background. Lithograph by H. Delius, Berlin. (1837.) 15 x 28 cm. – Extensively on Orville’s victories see Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874 (Mellon Coll.), page 57, no. 8. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,158 / EUR  189. (c. US$ 299.) + shipping

With  many  good  “ Hints  to  ‘Amazones’ ”

Sidney, S. The Book of the Horse: (Thorough-Bred, Half-Bred, Cart-Bred), Saddle and Harness, British and Foreign, with Hints on Horsemanship; the Management of the Stable; Breeding, Breaking and Training for the Road, the Park, and the Field. With numerous (8 verso blank full-page) wood engravings by R. C. West and others, mostly after Sheldon Williams, and  25  chromolithographs  after Alfred Corbould (3), John Fenneley, Sir Francis Grant, Monpezat, George Stubbs, Velasquez, James Ward, Sheldon Williams (5) and others. London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, ca. 1880. 4to. 3 ll. 604 pp. Giltstamped illustrated orig. cloth.

The fine colour lithographs – “ a  lavishly  illustrated  work ” – show the different horse races in partially famous representatives, some with rider or carriage, too. The many wood engravings with details of any kind incl. races, pictorially charming sujets, 20 of which (4 full size) plus 2 colour lithographs dedicated to the  amazone  and  huntress.

Among the totally 29 chapters Carriages, Driving + Stables and Coach Houses. Not least  six  chapters  on  hunting: Hunting / Hare-Hunting – Fox-Hunting – Stag-Hunting / Hunters – Training for Hunting – Riding to Cover – Riding with Hounds / Miscellaneous Hints on Hunting. And 46 pages along with 18 wood engravings and 1 chromolithograph dedicated exclusively to “Hints to  ‘Amazones’”. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,291 / EUR  630. / Export price EUR  599. (c. US$ 948.) + shipping

(Weapons and Tournament, (The old Germans’ their.) Rich scenery with sword fight and  tournament  riding. Right in front a warrior with bear head and spears. Engraving by Matthäus Merian. (1638.) 14.4 x 16.9 cm. – Earliest print. – Trimmed within the left and lower platemark. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 11,869 / EUR  65. (c. US$ 103.) + shipping

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Redop at the Wall. Wide place with a group of four riders, of which one redops with the assistance of an instructor and a groom. In the middle another instructor bringing a groom before the equerry entering the scene from the portal of a ruin. In the front a hound following the redop, closely beside another one standing. Pen and brown ink with grey washes with slight pencil sketch in the upper left. (1722.) 210 x 336 mm.

The original drawing before being side-inverted for the preparation of the etching for plate 15 – Thienemann 620 – of the first riding school as the wonderful evidence of the perfection of style Ridinger had already reached in the early age of 24. Pictorial riding school drawings are paramount Ridinger rarities. Signature and date of the drawings – with these now 18 leaves are traced to have been handed down to us – to be found on the title: JOH: ELIAS: RIDINGER: invenit et delineavit Anno 1722. Kind and typing of the inscription quite according to the one of an Alexander-the-Great-drawing of 1723 (offer for this under no. 12,472).

The condition at first glance dominated by a wipe-trace left of the ruins which irrespective of an undermixed slight green hue might have been caused by the artist himself since the sketch of a horse shimmers through. Thus granting the much desired look over the master’s shoulder. In the upper part of this wipe small outbreaks, perhaps caused by a worm. Additionally a small, nearly invisible discolouration accompanied by a small wormhole at the right margin. A small brown spot in the lower middle and tiny foxing in the heaven of no interest. The drawing itself of wonderful plasticity. And generally enthusing the vigour of the drawing itself mirroring the youthfullness of the artist himself. – Mounted under acid-free boards with the gilt tooled artist’s name + dates. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,072  /  price on request

– – – The Trotting. Open place in front of the ruins of an once imposing estate with group of four horses and six grooms under supervision of the equerry. Finely bordered pen and brown ink with grey washes as above. 214 x 340 mm.

The original drawing for plate 3 – Thienemann 608 – of the set though without the “look over the shoulder”.

The scenery, dominated by the horse trotting at the longe on the right, subtitled in the etching “In many the pace is correct …”.

While on the left a horseman only mounts his horse, held by the groom, the one and only already mounted one trains his own, good to look in the middle distance beyond the longe. And just whose detail

of 1913 (Lankheit 839, 27 x 29.3 cm).

Worked by Marc in the year of the “Tower of the Blue Horses” as one of the icons of the modernity, “the richest (year of his) creativeness” (Christian von Holst). And along with the simultaneous woodcut “Lion Hunting after Delacroix” the work stands for that time of that “well is to speak of a literal entry of the rider into the œuvre of Marc … The animalizing of art aimed at again and again by Marc by abstracting insight into the horse’s and the remaining animal world’s nature … now tips over repeatedly

into  the  revival  of  the  unity  of  horse  and  rider

… He presents himself as “Blue Rider” by a postcard to Else Lasker-Schüler of 1912, who stands beside and behind resp. of his horse and blends into a unity with him (from the view here in anticipation of the “powerful rhythmic depiction” of the “Riding Scene after Ridinger”) … The hound below right (on the latter) which may remind the onlooker rather of a hunting scene, is owed likewise to Ridinger’s “Riding Art” (comp. the corresponding hounds on the sheets 5, 18 and 22). It looks back as it would see where his master, the rider, stays away. An eager atmosphere of departure determines the scene

making  of  Ridinger’s  background  figure  of  the  rider

the  proper  protagonist .

The rider and the horse form a unity in their extreme impulse of motion. Although

with  Ridinger  Marc  picks  up  a  specialist  of  the trained  horse

it does not go for him on behalf of an artificial symbiosis of man-animal articulating itself especially by training of the horse in the artificial paces” (Andreas Schalhorn). And

(von Holst). The par force scenery on the watercolor “Ried Castle” worked one year later – Holst, ills. 11 – stands for a further example of the occupation with Ridinger. – The quotes from Christian von Holst (Ed.), Franz Marc – (Horses). Catalogue of the 2000 exhibition of the Staasgalerie Stuttgart – special issue 2003 – , pp. 122, 250 f. + 165 f. with illustrations 151 f., 208 + 9. – See i. a., too, Franz (Ed.), Franz Mark – (Powers of Nature, Works) 1912-1915. Catalogue of the exhibition in Munich + Münster, 1993, nos. 138 f. with ills. pp. 300 f.

The ruins reminding at Ridinger of southernly patterns and thus surely a reverence to Italy to where this was on the point of going to during his apprenticeship at Ulm only a few years ealier. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,071  /  price on request

Both  the  two  riding  school  drawings  before

belonged to a set of 18 of totally 23 owned by a baron from which two ones here were separated and got into the possession of a count.

Prince’s  Son

Kuntz, Rudolf (Mannheim 1797 – Karlsruhe 1848). Mirza. (Chestnut-brown). / Bai chatâin. Portrait to the right before subdued coastal scenery with palace, boats, and palms. Chalk lithograph with pale brown tone plate by Lorenz Ekeman Allesson (Sweden 1791 – Stuttgart 1828). (1824.) Inscribed: Nach d. Leben gez. von Rud. Kuntz. / Lithogr. v. L. Ekeman Allesson., otherwise as above in German-French. 37.5 x 42 cm.

Winkler, Die Frühzeit der dt. Lithographie, 180, 57, 6; Boetticher, Kuntz, II, 2; Grafische Arbeiten d. Pferdemaler 17.-19. Jhdt. – exhibition cat. German Horse Museum, Verden 1996 – no. 45/46 (W. 180, 57, 16 f.).

Leaf 6 of the 18-sheet

“ (Illustrations  of  the  Royal  Wurttemberg  Stud  Horses  of  Oriental  Races) ”

published by the Royal Lithographic Institute in Stuttgart in 1823/24 (Boetticher’s 1823/32 not even corresponding with Ekeman’s year of death).

“ The  first  pure  breed  of  Arab  horses  outside  of  the  Orient

originating in King Wilhelm’s passion (“King of farming”, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie) is displayed in large-sized horse portraits by the Karlsruhe horse painter Rudolf Kuntz”

(Dietrich Fröba, exhibition catalogue Verden, page 23). – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,244 / EUR  635. / Export price EUR  603. (c. US$ 954.) + shipping

Marc – Hoberg, Annegret + Isabelle Janssen. Franz Marc. Werkverzeichnis. Vol. I: The Paintings (244 nos.). December 2003. 4to. 339 pp. With 279 illustrations, 221 in color and numerous toned, frequently full-paged. Ochre orig. cloth with green flyleaves.

The catalogue raisonné, drafted in three volumes, of the co-founder of the artist’s group “The Blue Rider”, beside “The Bridge” the decisive grouping for the departure into the modernity, at which Marc (1880-1916) set his quite personal, more far-reaching accent

“ by development of his expressionist style especially by depiction of animals

( with  the  horses  as  unrepeatable  just  as  fine  as  rich  core )

and doing so got to new possibilities ”

(Jahn).

Introduction in German, the catalogue itself with German-English title designations, the further specifications in English, neutralized per glossary in English-German at the end. – With concordance to Lankheit.

In preparation the volumes II (watercolors, gouaches, drawings, postcards, pictures behind glass, sculpture; c. autumn 2004) + III (sketch-books, graphic; c. early 2005).
Offer no. 28,643 / EUR  248. (c. US$ 392.) + shipping

Vol. I if subscribing all three volumes:
Offer no. 28,643.1-3 / EUR  218. (c. US$ 345.) + shipping

free  shipping  within  Germany

Schoenbeck, Richard. (The Horse and its Depiction in the Pictorial Art from the Hippologic Point of View.) With frontispiece + 44 (5 folded) plates + 328 illustrations. Leipsic, Engelmann. 1908. 4to. X, 203 pp. Illustrated red orig. cloth with gilt back + front cover and red fly leaf. Gilt head-edge.

Standard work in regard of the rich illustration material and perhaps the introducing chapters “(Sketch and History of the Horse)” (pp. 31-66) + “(The Horse)” (67-143).
Offer no. 12,582 / EUR  353. / Export price EUR  335. (c. US$ 530.) + shipping

N(ew) Y(ork), The False Start Jerome Park. Partly galloping away, partly staying correctly at the start. On the left four gentlemen on the turret-like box. On the opposite side of the course the grandstand with heavily gesticulating spectators. Chalk lithograph

in  original  coloring

for Thomas Kelly, NY. 1868. 49.3 x 63.2 cm.

Not in Mellon, Prints. – Age-marked as typically for such outsized prints. I. a. five professionally repaired tears reaching 2-6 and (1) 12 cm resp. into the picture. Nevertheless of really good appearance on the whole. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,166 / EUR  2400. / Export price EUR  2280. (c. US$ 3608.) + shipping

Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (A Gravid Mare.) Etching. (1755.) Monogrammed. 19.6 x 15.4 cm. – Thienemann 482. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,163 / EUR  149. (c. US$ 236.) + shipping

– – – (Carriage Horse[s]. As before. – Thienemann 489. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,164 / EUR  190. (c. US$ 301.) + shipping

– – – (A Sledge-Horse with Little Bells.) As before. – Thienemann 493. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 7,211 / EUR  279. / Export price EUR  265. (c. US$ 419.) + shipping

– – – (Sumpter-Horse.) As before. – Thienemann 501. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 7,219 / EUR  199. (c. US$ 315.) + shipping

– – – (Postal horse.) As before. – Thienemann 502. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,165 / EUR  180. (c. US$ 285.) + shipping

Fürstenberg, Franz Egon Graf von (prebendary at Cologne etc., bishop of Strasbourg, 1625-1682). Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves. Bonn June 11, 1673. Sm. fol. (32 x 20 cm). 1 page on double leaf.

“ The six carriage horses would already have been sent if not one would have been slightly injured at the foot over that, so nevertheless it is to be hoped it will improve as soon as possible … Franz Egon Epis. / (follows below left) Chur Trier. ”

With watermark post horn between S + W as well as separate double tower, both not in Heawood. – Patinately not improperly foxing, only the white, last page together dirt-spotted. Two minimal injuries without loss of writing repaired acid-freely. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 13,392 / EUR  188. (c. US$ 298.) + shipping

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Adolphvs Fridericvs Hæres Norvegiæ Dux Holsatiæ, Slesvici, & Episc. Lvbecensis Sveciæ Regis declaratvs Svccessor. Mounted on a lively trotting black horse coming from the woods, with the baton in the right and accompanied by both a mounted helm-bearer and two runners, on the way to meet the troops marching on the shore. On the water itself fleet, mostly in line. Etching + engraving. Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger inv. fec. et excud., otherwise as above. Sheet size 32.7 x 24.3 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 832. – From the 16-sheet basic set – with Th. 835 + Th.-St. 1378 two further ones of larger size known, the latter one available here per 14,850 – of the Princely Persons on Horseback, missing in the copy of the opulent Ridinger collection Count Faber-Castell sold in 1958 and here present from the rich Ridinger collection of Radulf Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen dissolved now. – Three sides trimmed within the white platemark, below close to the last line of text with minimal cutting of the lower bow of the “G” of Regis. – Mounted on collection-specific large sheet with fine black lining. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,851 / EUR  435. / Export price EUR  413. (c. US$ 654.) + shipping

Duck, Jacob A. (about 1600 Utrecht 1667) or Jan le Ducq (1629/30 The Hague 1676). The River Landscape with the Waiting Rider. This dominantly right in front, awaiting another one coming through the river. In small figure behind that a man wading up to his knees with a rod (lance?) in the right while pointing with the left at a swimming or floating little figure. On top of the rock dropping steeply to the opposite bank on the left a building with bulky round tower. A further building below on the bank far left. And to the right margin of the picture an ensemble of buildings with high tower with bulbous top, behind the river bending to the left, in the distance on a level with a mountain chain on this side navigated by a sailship. Etching. Sheet size 18 x 23.3 cm.

Hollstein, Duck, 9; Nagler, Monogramists, III, Ducq, 2184, no. 8; Wurzbach, Duck, 8; Davidsohn Catalogue I, Ducq (“Debatable sheet … Very rare”), 1378. – Closing leaf of a 4-sheet set – the 3^rd see below – , whose first two ones are by Roman de Hooghe (1645-1708) who also was connected with the whole set. – With nearly complete large watermark “Reared Lion in double lined Circle below Fleur-de-lis” with sword in the right and arrows in the left as variant to Heawood 3140-3145 (1651 till c. 1689) inclusive of the paddings in the circle, but without its escutcheon. – Lower right small oval collector’s stamp A (? Aretin? see below).

The brilliant impression from the J. H. Anderhub Collection. – With surrounding margin of 2-4 mm trimmed to platemark on three sides, above rather to the image border with, however, lots of white plate field. This outside left and centre with noticeable quite feeble touch of browning. Two fine vertical box pleats running through from the front worth mentioning above of horse + rider only. So, too, a light diagonal trace of fold in the lateral right white image field.

Nagler repeatedly qualifies Ducq’s engravings in the Monogramists dictionary as preciousnesses and here it is especially the “famous set of the hounds” from 1661 that figures in Weigel’s Art Stock Catalogue, division VIII, 1840, per 9135 as “Of greatest rarity” at the high price of 80 Thaler. In the Davidsohn Catalogue (I, 1376) in 1920 the 8 sheets in the second state only were estimated at 600 reichsmark. Yet the “Rider at the Riverside” up here as single sheet – in brilliant quality of impression with margin each – at half of this, that is 300 reichsmark!

This to elucidate its preciousness. And in harmony with Nagler’s report from 1863 :

“ This wittily etched sheet Brulliot describes in the Aretin Catalogue no. 4401 with the remark that it were etched in le Ducq’s manner. He missed the (signature) letters,

yet  at  the  sale  an  art  collector  paid

100  fl.  for  this  sheet .”

Offer no. 28,613 / EUR  498. / Export price EUR  473. (c. US$ 749.) + shipping
See the complete description.

– – – – The Rider at the Pillar. To the left, supervised there by instructor with whip in the raised right. At the left margin of the picture small property, at the right overgrown large ruins, in front of it two men with dog observing the exercise. Etching. Sheet size 18.6 x 23.3 cm.

Hollstein, Duck, 8. – Sheet 3 of the 4-sheet set as above and with the no. 3 below outside right in the white margin.

The marvellous impression from the J. H. Anderhub Collection. – Trimmed to platemark with 2-4 mm surrounding margin and above lots of white plate field. Fine vertical box pleat running through only noticeable above and below of rider + horse resp. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,614 / EUR  448. / Export price EUR  426. (c. US$ 674.) + shipping

In  the  First  State  of  adequate  Provenance

Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Diversi Pensieri. Countryfolk mounted/with horse(s). Set of 8 sheets. Etchings. Inscribed: Diversi Pensieri p(er) Georgio Filippo Rugendas Pittore. Aug: Vind: 1699. Jeremias Wolff excudit Cum Privilegio Sac: Cæsar: Maiest. 1. (title) and, varying, I. Wolff exc(ud). (Aug. Vind.) C(um). P(riv). S(ac). C(æc and æs resp.). M(aj). 2. (till 8.) resp. 11.6-11.8 x 14.1-14.2 cm. Stitched.

Teuscher 23-30, I (of III, recte IV) with illustrations; Stillfried 20-27; Art Stock Catalogue Weigel IX, 1840, 10,321 + VI, 7133 (state II with Ridinger’s address with date 1750 with omission of the privilege note); Schwarz, Ridinger Collection von Gutmann, 1910, XXVIII (7 sheets only), state II (title) and II, 1 (Ridinger address without date) resp.

Sheets 1, 5 + 8 with watermark torso. – With 2-2.5 cm wide partially feebly foxing margin, only the title in the image as well and somewhat more in the white margin. – Laterally left mounted on cardboard of 1919. – The fold strips partly, of sheet 8 completely, torn, but backed acid-freely. – In rust-red wrappers, inscribed in German (by own hand?) “Rugendas / Diversi Pensieri / 8 l / Wolff A. V. 1699 / complete see Stillfried p. 1 no. 20-27”.

The  charming  set  of  “bucolic  contents”

like the “Capricci” of 1698 (Gode Krämer in Catalogue Augsburg), filled with the poetry of the intimate Rugendas beyond of battle noise. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,608 / EUR  940. / Export price EUR  893. (c. US$ 1413.) + shipping

“Should  …  the  Illness  …  even  be  the  Glanders  …”

Proclamation by Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1713-1780, accession to the throne 1735, nephew of Emperor Charles VI and brother-in-law of Frederick the Great) subjugating the horses’ glanders to the duty of notification. Issued Brunswick April 4, 1771. (1771.) 34.7 x 41.4 cm. 1 page. With attractively decorated woodcut-initial with the freely jumping horse of Lower Saxony’s coat-of arms below the prince’s hat. With the duke’s signature printed besides the “L(oco) S(igilli)”-stamp and that of H. B. von Schliestedt.

Framing–Attractive  Broadsheet  Meant  for  the  Bulletin  Boards  as exceptionally rare in this kind of reference to the horse. Least of all by such a  thematic  rank  as here and of especially beautiful impression through spacious typing, absolutely uncut wide margins, and impeccable condition with only slight even papertone. The never used copy of an archive! – See the complete description.
Offer no. 13,004 / EUR  373. / Export price EUR  354. (c. US$ 560.) + shipping

Meulen, Anton Franz van der (Brussels 1632 – Paris 1690). Départ pour la Chasse. Rendezvous and departure of the large hunting party. Etching by Jan van Huchtenburgh (Haarlem 1647 – Amsterdam 1733). 32.2 x 46 cm. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,412 / EUR  1175. / Export price EUR  1116. (c. US$ 1766.) + shipping

Ridinger, Johann Elias. (Presentation and Description of the School and Campaign Horses by their Lessons, In what occasions these may be used. – Annotations of the Caroussel.) 2 parts in 1 vol. Augsburg, the author, 1760(.61). Sm. fol. Engraved title, 35, 1 pp.; 8 pp. With large title vignette “Ad Pugnam Ludumque paratus.” (Fair to Fight + Game), several woodcut vignettes + borders and

62  etchings

(c. 19-20 x 14-16 cm and Caroussel plan, 28 x 15.7). Wonderful, richly blind tooled brown calf vol. in the style of old wooden board bindings on 5 especially broad imitated ribs with gilt spine incl. gilt stamp

“ BESCHREIB. CAMPAGNE PFERDEN LECTIONEN  /  ANNO 1760 ”

and two brass clasps. Contemp. coloured marbled edges.

Thienemann + Schwarz (vol. I, plate XXI) 646-707 + 1301; Weigel 36 A + 37 A (of A-B each); Coppenrath (1889) 1561 (without the Caroussel set) + 1562 (without title, text + plan engraving) and (1890) 2000 (without title + Caroussel set, with faults) resp.; Helbing XXXIV, 1252; Schwerdt III, 142; Menessier de la Lance II, 429.

in absolutely complete condition up to the 16^th engraving of the Caroussel, the plan. Its missing according to Weigel (1857) characteristic of newer editions. Accordingly Thienemann (1856) :

“ The omission of this plate (which contains a schematic representation of all caroussel tricks in lines, small figures, letters etc.) … is very impairing as without it one does not understand the added description. ”

He found it “In a really old, very well preserved copy … from England” , in which also pp. 1-4 of the Caroussel were bound with which the copy he had at first, see p. 136, missed just as pp. 17-35 of the riding school itself (see p. 295) only becoming known by the mentioned English copy, that is the

“ (Letter by a very experienced horseman from a princely court to a gentleman , containing :
Necessary annotations for those who have practised horsemanship under a master
for quite a time , what they shall take care of when they get away of him. ”

All this included in the copy here without restriction. With the exception of the “3-lined French ‘Avis’ on the not paginated (and otherwise empty, too) p. 36” of the pre-titles to the main part only Schwarz mentions. – Title + texts in German-French parallel text throughout.

The etchings widely set in fine surrounding accessories numbered 1-46 + 1-15 leaving aside the plan, the first completely inscribed with “Joh. El. Ridinger inv. del. sc. et excud. A. V.”, the other with the monogram “J. E. R.”. Present

in  uniform  really  wonderful  printing  quality

on strong to heavy laid paper with various watermarks, especially with the large coat-of-arms mark along with the 2-lined tag “FAI / WANGEN” (not in Heawood) as frequently used by Ridinger. – With the inevitable exception of the larger sized plan engraving moreover of fine wide-marginess of 4-7.5 cm above + below and 3.5-4.5 cm on the sides (leafsize 31 x 22 cm). Coming along with this

the  practically  uniform  snow-white  freshness ,

in regard of which isolated small deviations must not be mentioned necessarily. But, however, though scarcely recognizable, the professionelly healed larger tear in the white upper margin of the slightly shorter title leaf with a hardly impairing faded short pre-owner’s name. Equally settled furthermore a really small tear in the white upper margin of plate 22 and the tear of 4 cm reaching up to the image margin in the left lateral margin of plate 23. – First and last leaves with slight pressure traces in the white margin caused by the clasps’ nails.

The rich tooling of the boards determined by a centre field of 19.5 x 11 cm shaped by lines and flower stamps, enclosed by 6-lined ornamental border that itself is limited to the outside by lines. The triple decorative stamp of the spine analogously to the letters gilt tooled. – Shortly, round about a

showcase  copy

of one of the “last works still done by (Ridinger) himself alone”, “drawn from nature … with the help of a friend very skillfull and experienced in horsemanship.” – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,418  /  price on request

Single  sheets  from  the  set  see  below  please

With  Alken’s  superb  illustrations

Alken – (Surtees, Robert Smith.) Jorrock’s Jaunts and Jollities. The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that renowned sporting citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks. New edition. With

16  coloured  aquatints  by  Henry  Alken

(1785 London 1851, c. 11 x 17 cm). London, Routledge & Sons, (1869). Large 8vo. VIII, 291, 1 pp. Contemp. ruby Levant morocco on 5 ribs with dark green book plate on the splendidly gilt back, double gilt lines and cornerfleurons, fine gilt standing edges, and blindstamped inside border. Marbled edges.

Tooley 471. – Schwerdt II, 236 (2^nd ed. of 1843, the 1^st with the Alken ills.). – Of practically untouched freshness. – See the complete description.
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Vernet, Antoine Charles Horace, called Carle (Bordeaux 1758 – Paris 1836). La Chasse. Fox-hunting. Aquatint by Louis Philibert Debucourt (1755 Paris 1832) printed in brown. 48.1 x 66.8 cm. – Splendid large item in Debucourt’s characteristic manner. Additionally a Vernet sujet par excellence. – See the complete description.
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Silberer, Victor. (Turf Dictionary containing all Technical Terms in common Use with Comprehensive Explanations, and the Names of well-known and Famous Horses with Description of their Descent, their Owners, and their Performance etc. etc.) 2^nd enlarged and improved ed. Vienna + Leipsic, Allgem. Sport-Zeitung, 1890. Sm. 8vo. 640 pp. Soft-green cloth with the orig. colour illustrated cloth from front board + back mounted. – The  wanted  compendium. – See the complete description.
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“An  Admirable  Work  on  the  Subject”

Henry William Herbert. Frank Forester’s Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America. 2 vols. New York, Stringer & Townsend, + London, Trübner & Co. 1857. 4to. 552, 576 pp. errata slip. With incl. of the two illustrated titles, 16  steelplates by several artists and engravers on mounted China, 10 double full-page pedigree plts. (bound not in their fixed order), and numerous woodcut ills. Richly gilt- and blindstamped illustrated orig. cloth. Brown edges.

Sabin 31465. – First Edition. Isolated slightly brown traces by plants and, mostly affecting only the especially wide margins, slight foxing on the pages by the plates. The latters itself mostly only on the verso and on the white margins of the mounting paper resp. Binding cleverly restored. Otherwise a really fine copy of this standardwork dedicated “To all true Lovers of the Horse … as a Tribute of the Animal, and to the Feelings of those who duly appreciate him …”. – See the complete description.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). In the year 1746 this noble personal horse of His High Princely Highness Charles Eugene reigning duke of Wurttemberg was painted from life. ./. and sent to me ./. Its colour was grey speckled with white from front, over the back completely white with black spots, the thighs dark grey, the mane and tail light. With plait mane and long tail in front of a wall in a riding school, stepping to the left. Etching and engraving after Ermeltraut’s painting from life. (1746.) Inscribed: 46. / Ermeltraut ad vivum pinx. / J. El. Ridinger Sculp: et excud: A: V., otherwise in German as before. 34.2 x 27.7 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 288. – Sheet 46 of the Wondrous Stags and other peculiar Animals. – “The six horses which are contained in the collection have been sold separately later.” – Very fine though somewhat later impression on buff woven paper with typographic watermark rest, perhaps, however, before the edition about 1824 mentioned by Thienemann for which the number upper right was presumably removed. – See the complete description.
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– – – – The same in an impression on buff paper, supposedly of the third quarter of the 19^th century.
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