
![Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger. Manuscript on Vellum. Augsburg, 24 August 1746. In German. C. 13½ × 9⅝ in (343 × 244 mm). 6 unnumerated sheet, the last 3 pages of which white. With the “(‘augmented’) family arms inherited from the anchestors (of Ulm)” in gouache painting (4½ × 3¾ in [11.5 × 9.5 cm]). Contemp. marbled brown leather with blindtooled fillet along the board edges and shiningly gilt-colored textured brocade paper pastedowns with gouached rich floral decor and transcription flap on the back pastedown. In later marbled board slip case. Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger](ridinger-niemeyer/ridinger/images/16214_arms_400.jpg)
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein
Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Manuscript on vellum. Augsburg 24 August 1746
![Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried (composer, conductor, and musical writer, 1776 Vienna 1841). Biographische Notitzen & Character Traits and Anecdotes (on Ludwig van Beethoven). Autograph Manuscripts. (1831.) 12 pp. on 3 double leaves & ½ leaf and 13 pp. on 9 (4 blue) individual leaves resp. Dark brown kid portfolio with blind tooled facsimilated title on front cover (14⅝ × 9¼ in [37 × 23.5 cm]) & 13-line gilt stamped in German in inside cover. Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, Biographische Notitzen & Character Traits and Anecdotes (on Ludwig van Beethoven)](autographs/images/16259.jpg)
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried
Biographische Notitzen & Character Traits and Anecdotes (on Ludwig van Beethoven)
Original manuscripts with important deviation from the print

Charles Frederick
Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
Guild Order

In May von Weinberg’s armorial binding by Ernst Ludwig
Honoré de Balzac
Les Paysans. Scènes de la vie de campagne
With 50 etchings by Georges Jeanniot

John Keats
Unpublished Poem to His Sister Fanny, April 1818
Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1909
One of 489 copies printed on vellum

Romain Rolland
Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition
4 vols. Paris, Ollendorff, (1921)
Contemporary dark red leather inlaid master bindings
![Gustav Schilling. BEETHOVEN-ALBUM. (A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased …) Stuttgart, Paris, London, Milan (1846). Sm. 4to (10¼ × 7¼ in [26 × 18.5 cm]). 2 ll. preliminary matter, XVI, 312 pp. With portrait frontispiece in steel engraving. Contemp. ducal Bavarian red velvet with white moiré inner covers/fly-leaves & rich roundabout ornaments of musically elated arabesque on both covers & back together with ducal crown supralibros on the front cover, all in applied shining gilt metal sheet. Gilt edges. Gustav Schilling, Beethoven-Album](redseries/files/images/15579.jpg)
Gustav Schilling (ed.)
BEETHOVEN-ALBUM
1846

Ignaz Schwarz
Katalog einer Ridinger-Sammlung
(Collection Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann)
The Baron’s No. I / II bound in vellum

Der Venuswagen (The Chariot of Venus)
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with Original Prints
9 volumes (all published). Berlin 1919/1920.
Ruby red orig. morocco on 5 ribs
Doctor Heinrich Stinnes’ obligatory copy No. I of the Luxury Edition

Dutch School
Landscape with the Three Peasants loading Crop
Grey wash over traces of black chalk. C. 1700

Studio of Charles Le Brun (?)
Lion Hunt
Pen and brown ink on vellum. 17⅛ × 22½ in (435 × 572 mm)

August Schleich
Troop of Boars
Watercolor in grey and brown with black lights on grey tone paper

François Verdier
Sophites welcomes Alexander the Great
Black chalk with grey wash, heightened in white on blue paper

Hendrik Verschuring
Resting Hunters before an Inn
Brush in shades of grey wash over traces of black chalk

Daniel Vertangen
Bacchanal
Plumbago on vellum. Certainly before 1660

William Hogarth
The Bruiser, C. Churchill …
in the Character of a Russian Hercules



Ludwig Beckmann
(History and Description of the Races of the Dog)
![Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hesse, 1742 - Cassel 1808). (Collection of One Hundred and Seventy Engravings after Drawings by ... entirely etched in copper.) Zwickau, Literatur- und Kunst=Comptoir, between 1808 & 1827. Large fol. 2 unpag. ll. title, preface & contents and besides an additional old washed brush drawing in grey & brown by other hand 170 (1 of which exchanged) etchings (2⅛-8⅜ × 2⅝-10⅞ in [5.4-21.2 × 6.7-27.7 cm]), 10 of these (partially) colored, in original mounting in points on 59 sheet. Ruby red morocco with 5 ornamental raised bands with green back-plate, artist's name on front cover & ridinger handlung niemeyer on its inner cover, Ridinger stag vignette and line on both boards, all gilt tooled in 23.5 carat, in equal half morocco slipcase with the stag vignette on both boards. Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of One Hundred and Seventy Engravings](hunting/images/14929_6.jpg)
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II
Collection of One Hundred and Seventy Engravings

Carle Vernet, La Chasse
Aquatint by Louis Philibert Debucourt
![Carle Vernet (actually Antoine Charles Horace, Bordeaux 1758 – Paris 1836). (La chasse à Courre [au cerf].) Suite of 24 sheet. Engravings with etching (8⅜-9 × 11⅞-12⅛ in [21.2-22.8 × 30.2-30.9 cm]) by (Schwerdt: F.) Gamble. C. 1804-14. Contemp. h. leather with gilt back and brown marbled covers. – Dayot 16; Thiébaud 927 (not knowing the first states at Dayot, Schwerdt & Jeanson and here resp.); Schwerdt (most famous private hunting collection of all times dissolved 1939-1946) III, 65 (per Gamble): “Highly interesting set” (before numbering); Jeanson, 1987, 574 (before numbering, besides erroneously taking over Thiébaud’s “about 1830” for his later edition). – Not in Souhart and the Schoeller hunting collection sold in 1921. Carle Vernet, Le Cerf pres d'entrer à l'eau](hunting/images/28049_17.jpg)
Carle Vernet, La chasse au cerf
Set of 24 engravings. C. 1804-14

Atlas Rvssicvs … Vastissimvm Imperivm Rvssicvm cum adiacentibvs Regionibvs
The first genuine complete Atlas of Russia
in contemporary coloring as extremely seldom only
and extravagant Russia leather binding
![Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie divisée en trois Départemens, savoir: Tobolskago, Ienisseiskago, Irkvtskago, et quelques autres Parties de la Tartarie. With miles indicator, a small map of the Chukchi (Chukotsk) Peninsula (c. 1⅝ × 3⅝ in [4 × 8 cm]), annotations to the districts and a large figurative colored title-cartouche (7⅝ × 8⅝ in [19.3 × 22 cm]) with a stylized icicle, steppe landscape with reindeer sledge, whale and polar bears, one of them devouring a fish. On top of it six winds. Colored two-sheet map c. 1 : 13 millions engraved by Matthäus Albrecht Lotter (1741 Augsburg 1810) for Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717 Augsburg 1777). C. 1770-1780. 19½-19¾ × 42⅝ in (49.6-50.1 × 108.4 cm). Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie](cartography/images/12019_550.jpg)
Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie
Colored two-sheet-map engraving by Matthäus Albrecht Lotter for Tobias Conrad Lotter.
C. 1770-1780
![Gerard Valk (1651/52 - Amsterdam 1726). Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ: Ex recenti, summâ curâ. Et variô punctorum charactere, Suas in Provincias, Territoria et Dioeceses; Geographicè, Politicè, Ecclesiasticè. With splendid decorated title (10 × 12¾ in [25.5 × 32.5 cm]) and dedication cartouche (6½ × 8⅛ in [16.5 × 20.5 cm]), both with Spanish-German and French-Italian miles indicator resp., a small separate map of Minorca (3⅜ × 3½ in [8.5 × 9 cm]), and conventional signs. Colored wall-map of the Iberian Peninsula including Majorca, Minorca and the northern tip of Morocco to the Spanish War of Succession engraved on 4 joined sheets. 1704. 38⅜ × 45½ in (97.5 × 115.5 cm). Gerard Valk, Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ](cartography/images/28680_450.jpg)
Gerard Valk
Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ
Colored wall-map engraving. 1704

Oskar Kokoschka
Pope Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) after Raffael
Lithograph printed in brown. (1972.)

Alfred Kubin
Memorial Tablet for the tragic death
of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen – pray for her
Pen and ink lithograph. (1926)

Franz Heckendorf
House in the Park
Oil on canvas. 1921

Franz Heckendorf
Lioness striking a Wild Boar in the Oasis
Oil on fiberboard

Franz Heckendorf
Fascination Sea of Lights Metropolis – Munich
Oil on fiberboard. 1955

Carl Strathmann
Ibycus
Black pen, watercolor & gold

Siegwald Johannes Dahl
Roebuck in Winter Forest
Oil on panel. 1880

Andries van Eertvelt
Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon
Oil on oak panel with brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617

Carl Friedrich Karthaus
Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth, Nonnenwerth, and Drachenfels
Oil on canvas. 1887

Aert van der Neer
River Landscape by Moonlight
Oil on oak panel

Eligius Baron von Seyfert
The Darmstadt Tusker of 1765
Oil on canvas after Georg Adam Eger’s lost painting. 1804

“One can hardly imagine more beautiful engravings”
Charles Le Brun
The Triumphs of Alexander the Great

Nicolaes de Bruyn
Saint Hubert

Nathaniel Dance
Mr. Garrick in Richard the Third
Mezzotint by John Dixon

Giorgio Ghisi
The Hunter Orion carries the Tutelary Goddess Artemis
Engraving after Luca Penni, called Romanus. 1556

Jan van Goyen
The Capuchin Monastery at the Canal


Hans Holbein II
Self-portrait and that of His Wife
Deluxe Impressions on China before the Letter

Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden
The Stone-cutter (The Cure of Folly)
Enlarged engraving in reverse by or at Jan Claesz. Visscher

Pieter Nolpe
Het Door Breecken vande St. Anthonis Dyck buyten Amsterdam
… op den 5. Martij 1651
Etching after Willem Schellincks

Johann Elias Ridinger
Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis in the Punjab, India, in Autumn 326 B.C.
Pen and brush with brown ink heightened with white. 1723

Johann Georg Bergmüller
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
Triumph of Death
(after Giovanni Fortuna/Andrea Andreani)
![Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 - Augsburg 1767). The Par force Hunt of the Stag and Its Whole Proceedings with Extensive Description. (Augsburg, author’s edition, 1756.) Four-part set of 16 sheet in etching with engraving (c. 12¼-12? × 18¾-19? in [31-31.5 × 47.5-48.5 cm]). Th. & Schwarz 49-64. – Each with 6 to 10-line descriptive caption in German along with the French specialist terms. Johann Elias Ridinger, Par Force Hunt of the Stag](ridinger-niemeyer/ridinger/images/th54.jpg)
Johann Elias Ridinger
The Par force Hunt of the Stag and Its Whole Proceedings with Extensive Description
in 16 Copper Plates

Johann Elias Ridinger & Georg Adam Eger or his Circle
The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
The Stag Turns to Bay in the Water, the Hounds are Ceased and He Receives the Coup de Grâce
2 oil paintings over Ridinger’s etchings. Supposedly 1764/68.
![Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 - Augsburg 1767). The Spring of the Hounds. The pack leader defending the hare against three other greyhounds and a waterhound by a boulder. Washed brush drawing over pencil. Inscribed with pale pencil within the subject below left: Joh. Elias Ridinger inv. et del. 17¼-17⅜ × 13¼ in (438-440 × 336 mm) (subject size 16¾-16⅞ × 13¼ in [426-429 × 336 mm]). Johann Elias Ridinger, The Spring of Hounds](ridinger/images/28878sm.jpg)
Johann Elias Ridinger
The Spring of Hounds
Washed brush over pencil

Johann Elias Ridinger
The Deer’s Four Times of Day
Set of 4 sheet in etching with engraving

Martin Elias Ridinger
Exact and True Depictions of the Most Wondrous Deer
The original printing plate to the title of the set

Johann Elias Ridinger
Turkish Horse Finery
Set of 4 sheet in etching. (1752.)

Johann Elias Ridinger
The Paradise or The Creation and the Fall of the First Couple of Man
Set of 12 sheet etchings with engraving
![Johann Elias Ridinger. Representations des Animaux selon leur grande varieté et leurs belle couleurs suivant des desseins (sic!) originels (The Animal Kingdom represented in its Great Variety and in its Fine Colors from Original Drawings [Colored Animal Kingdom]). Two etched title engravings and 127 mostly glazed colored copper plates. Augsburg 1754 - c. 1773. Contemp. marbled calf. - Th. 974-1102. Johann Elias Ridinger, Colored Animal Kingdom](ridinger-niemeyer/ridinger/images/th1032.jpg)
Grandeur to grandeur — an absolutely unrivaled copy
Johann Elias Ridinger’s Colored Animal Kingdom
with 127 mostly glazed colored plates


Johann Elias Ridinger
Young Huntresses in the Character of Diana
Mezzotints by Gabriel Spizel
![Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 - Augsburg 1767). Hunting Scenes. Set of 4 sheet. Mezzotints by or for Johann Andreas Pfeffel I or II (Bischoffingen/Altbreisach 1674 – Augsburg 1748 and 1715 Augsburg 1768 resp.). Inscribed: Ioh(ann)(.) Elias(.) Ridinger pinx(it). / I. A. Pfeffel exc(ud[it])(.) Aug. Vind., otherwise in Latin-French-German. 19⅝-19⅞ × 28¾-29 in (49.9-50.5 × 73.1-73.8 cm). Johann Elias Ridinger. Hunting the Wild Boar](ridinger-niemeyer/ridinger/images/th1128_500.jpg)
Johann Elias Ridinger
Hunting Scenes for Roe – Boar – Bear – Quail
4 plates. Mezzotints by Johann Andreas Pfeffel

Johann Elias Ridinger
Pastor bonus
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
OMNIA MIHI SUBDITA
The Rule of Death
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
The Large Sheet of Dance Macabre
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
Daniel in the Den of Lions
Brush with wash in grey-blue & black with heightening in white

Johann Elias Ridinger
The Lady with the Black Mask
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
The Gamba Player
Mezzotint

Johann Elias Ridinger
In manus tuas com(m)endo Spiritum meum
et hæc dicens expiravit. Luc. 23
Mezzotint by Johann Jacob Ridinger
![Johann Georg Bergmüller (Türkheim, Swabia, 1688 – Augsburg 1762). Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs (the Elder) … Large half length portrait medallion (9¼ × 7¼ in [23.5 × 18.5 cm]) with palettelike inscription tablet left below of a painter putto with palette and brush in the extended left (Rugendas was lefthander), suggestively held by half length splendid dominating harnessed standard bearer, in his colors beside Augsburg’s cembra nut the imperial double eagle. In the right lower pendentive head & hand of an armored harness. The upper left pictorial scenery reminding of armed events painted by Rugendas, lead by mounted Kurucs – insurgents in the wake of the Ottoman Wars (1683/99) – wielding scimitars, in the distance general mêlée close to a church, not least in allusion to the siege & occupation of Augsburg (1703/04) during the War of the Spanish Succession prominent in the œuvre. Mezzotint by Johann Jacob Haid (Kleineislingen 1704 – Augsburg 1767). Inscribed: I. Iac. Haid ad vivum pinx. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind. / I. G. Bergmüller invenit et delin, otherwise as above. 15⅞ × 10¾ in (40.3 × 27.3 cm). Bergmüller, Georg Philipp Rugendas I](rugendas/images/16220_400.jpg)
Johann Georg Bergmüller
Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs
Mezzotint


Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Assembling for the Ride
Brush in varied grey up to brown over pencil.
Not before 1730


Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
Mezzotints. (1713/14)

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Horsemen, Cavalry & Camp Scenes from 1693 to 1705
24 sets of 48 leaves
Chiaroscuro engravings by Johann Christian Rugendas

Joseph Georg Wintter
Panther and Lioness locked in Fight
Black chalk over pencil sketching with some red