Six Decades
The Fine & Rare

Autographs & Manuscripts

• Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
  Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884
• Late Letter unknown to Literature
  as Résumé of the Œuvre & Character Sketch
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Autograph letter of June 21, 1765 to Johann Georg Wille, Paris
• “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
  Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
  Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch
• The General’s extravagance
  four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
  General Walther von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, but then stage the Putsch
• 9 years before Heinrich Heine’s “Weaver’s Song” :
  Promemoria of the leather manufacture C. W. Müller & Co. in Hamburg
  towards a chamber there as military procurement office in regard of supplied boots

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Bibliophily

• Showcase copy in red half leather with grand ducal supralibros :
  Guild Order of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach,
  for the weavers in the guild district Remda
• In red morocco designed by E. R. Weiß :
  Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon
• “The Golden Age of Porcelain”
  Hand-bound édition de luxe in vellum
  Nicola Moufang, Alt-Berlin in Porzellan (Old Berlin in Porcelain)
• Hans C. Bodmer’s Hesse Collection :
  Hermann Hesse, Watercolors – Manuscripts – Dedication Copies – First Editions – Letters – Documentation
• Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
  Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
  One hundred gravures

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The Red Series^©

• Showcase copy in red half leather with grand ducal supralibros
  Guild Order of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach,
  for the weavers in the guild district Remda
• In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
  Atlas Rvssicvs
  In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only
• In ruby morocco and here for the first time
  Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings
• No. I/XL of the Luxury Edition: The Heinrich Stinnes Copy
  The Venuswagen
  A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with 78 Original Prints
  9 volumes (all published)
• The Toils of 1717 – The Toils Plate of 1729
  Unprecedentedly Unique the Unison of Time + Sujet
  Johann Elias Ridinger & George William Margrave at Brandenburg,
  The Hunting Ground surrounded by Flaring Cords

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Drawings

• 3 x illustrious prior possession
  Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
  Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389
• Pierre Justin Ouvrié, Thun
• The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18^th century :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C.
• “ … as one doesn’t find them soon fuller of character ”
  August Schleich, Troop of Boars
• Wilhelm von Kobell, The Horseshoeing

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Prints

• With quality seal of prime degree :
  Philips Wouwerman, Saddle Horse at the Oats Trough
• Jan van Huchtenburgh, A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen
• Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight
• Paul Bril, Rocky Coastal Landscape
• Charles François Hutin, La Marchande de Moutarde Allemande

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Paintings

• Atmospheric Mise-en-scène of a Winter Day drawing to a Close
  Eligius (Eloy) Baron von Seyfert, The Darmstadt Tusker of 1765
  Immediate copy after Georg Adam Eger’s lost painting
• Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
  Georg Adam Eger, The Stag turns to Bay in the Water, the Hounds are ceased and He receives the Coup de Grâce
• “They even surpass those in color charm” 
  Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest
• Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
  Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
• With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
  Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon

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XX^th Century

• Documented in Drawing, Painting & Lithograph
  Franz Heckendorf, Camel Caravan in the High Mountains
• Hoi Lebadang, Barques before Cabins in the Jungle
• “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
  Franz Heckendorf, Lugano
• Carl Joseph Bauer, Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
• Hoi Lebadang, Barques in the Jungle

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William Hogarth

• One of Hogarth’s most concentrated charges :
  John Wilkes Esqr. + The Times
  The Hero of the Press + The Political Blaze
• Sigismunda
  Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo
• Resort in bad times :
  Consultation of Physicians – Arms of the Undertakers
• The Tavern Scene
  The Rake’s Progress III
• Here even the end of all things comes to an end :
  Tail Piece. / The Bathos, or Manner of Sinking, in Sublime Paintings,
  inscribed to the Dealers in Dark Pictures

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Johann Elias Ridinger

• Ridinger’s Martens, one of which acted as
  model for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
  Beech Marten & Pine Marten
  The original printing plates for Th. 475 & 476
• First time
  Before the background of
  what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
  In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum
• Available here for the first time :
  The Stag Hunt as colored lithograph after Th. 143
• The Beavers have 2. or three Young Ones,
  obtain their strength for breeding the other year; also grow ever more
• Now in the sequence intended by Ridinger :
  The Human Tempers

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Rugendas Artist Dynasty

• Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
• From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse …
• Superb aged face
  Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs
• “These sets … document the paintings” :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro
• Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
  Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game

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Joseph Georg Wintter

• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
  Georg von Dillis
• Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
• A particular sujet :
  Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
• Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
  and here ascertained completely supposedly for the First Time :
  Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing

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Animals , Hunting , Environment

• Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
  Antonio Tempesta, Hare Coursing with Hounds
• Johann Elias Ridinger, Wild He-cat / Wild He-Cat lurking for Prey
  The original printing plates for Th. 470 & 471
• The tracker –
  He guides and is guided in turn
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Ducitur ducit(ur)que vicissim
• 3 x illustrious prior possession
  Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
  Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389
• “A complete and interesting set” :
  Ernst Philipp Thoman von Hagelstein, Didactic Pieces of Hunting

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Fishing & Angling

• The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
  L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
• In a fine contemporary calf binding by Hersant
  P(etrus) Fisher, The Angler’s Souvenir with 31 engraved plates
• Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
• Wrasses – Labrus
• State-in-progress unknown to literature
  before completion of the second state
  Hermanus van Brussel, The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water

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Horses & Riding

• Johann Elias Ridinger, To make the horse shoot-proof
• “These sets … document the paintings” :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I
  Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693-1705
  in chiaroscuro by Johann Christian Rugendas
• Satin or silk white horse
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Fully White Horse. Cheval Blanc.
• “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
  Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer
• “Very impatient and obstinate horses”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Chestnut. Alzan brulé.

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Cartography

• Italy – South Italy along with Sardinia, Sicily + Tunisia
• England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
• Carte de la Gaule
  pour servir à la lecture de l’Histoire Ancienne
• Ireland – Vdrone, Irlandiæ, in Catherlagh Baronia
• Iran – Carte de l’Empire de Perse

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Views & Local History

• God bless you, Bavaria!
• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Mount Apollinaris and Remagen
• Obernitz
• The three Castles Gleichen (Thuringia)
• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Bingen

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Law / Proclamations

• Showcase copy in red half leather with grand ducal supralibros :
  Guild Order of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach,
  for the weavers in the guild district Remda (1845)
• License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
  in regard of the examination for the Elbe skipper license (Sep. 9, 1823)
• Of Seizures & Legal Procedures
• Against the Beer-Carouses during Execution
  Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting the bad habit of seizure-drinking at the expense of the seized (1747)
• Need of reform with the execution of sentence :
  William Hogarth, Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons

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Miscellanea

Books – Prints – Portraits