60 Years
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily · The Red Series
Drawings · Prints · Paintings · XXth Century
William Hogarth
Johann Elias Ridinger · Joseph Georg Wintter · Rugendas Artist Dynasty
Animals , Hunting , Environment · Fishing & Angling · Horses & Riding
Cartography · Views & Local History · Law / Proclamations
Miscellanea: Books · Prints · Portraits
Autographs & Manuscripts
- The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
General Walther von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, then 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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - The experienced biography
1798 Piano Wrestling — Cook Mehlschöberl — 100 £ from England
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried
Biographische Notitzen & Character Traits and Anecdotes
(on Ludwig van Beethoven)
The 1831 original manuscript of the second earliest biography on Beethoven
with important deviation from print - 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
Bibliophily
- Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - 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 - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790 - 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 - Bibliothèque Raphael Esmerian
The Red Series©
- The Otter Copy with book & inlaid printing plate
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
in the first edition of the final state - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - Copy of the Century in Imperial Ruby Leather
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - 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
Drawings
- “The rajah approaches, with his two adult sons”
François Verdier, Sophites welcomes Alexander the Great before the Gates of his Capital - Pierre Justin Ouvrié, Thun
- Outline design in original size of just the hounds :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds - Master Drawing of High-class Provenance :
Dutch School – Landscape with the Three Peasants Cart-loading
From the C. R. Rudolf Collection - Belonging to the “drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Accompanies the Mother at Work.
Foal left-sided to the mare
Prints
- An ensemble of homogeneous, decorative value
and probably the finest natural set of the old prints
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Deer’s Four Times of Day - Jan van Goyen, The Capuchin Monastery at the Canal
- “Stands out by the sure command of the means”
Bernhard Vogel, Johann Noa Buirette of Oehlefeld (1682-1728) on Wilhelmsdorff in Nuremberg - “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes
from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro - “An exceedingly rich, well-worked sheet”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great crosses with his Army the Tigris
Paintings
- “They even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - 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 - “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus, Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg - “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - 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
XXth Century
- Maritime South — Heckendorf’s South
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Harbor (Trieste?) - André Rouveyre, Head
- Heinrich Stinnes’ obligatory No. I
in the ruby red morocco of the luxury edition
The Venuswagen
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with Original Prints
9 volumes (all published) - NIGHTLY METROPOLIS —
here you bathe in it
Franz Heckendorf, Fascination Sea of Light Metropolis – Munich - Hoi Lebadang, Barques in the Jungle
William Hogarth
- Frontispiece to Kerby
- An early lance for the prevention of cruelty to animals :
Cruelty to animals on the streets of London
as the first stage of cruelty - The Indian Emperor
Or the Conquest of Mexico - Attorneys + drayman :
A morning in London
as the second stage of cruelty - Owes its creation to
Colley Cibber’s Drury Lane production :
King Henry the Eigth & Anna Bullen (Boleyn)
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Redop left at the Wall
- Dramatic & rare
The Elevated Shooting Cabin at a Bear Garden - Initial spark for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
The Weasels
The original printing plate for Th. 479 - In this rich version an almost-unicum :
The Gamba Player based on a detail by Watteau - “… with heavily jagged palms”
This Stag His Princely Serene Highness Carl Alexander Duke of Wurttemberg has shot himself, In the Year 1735. the 22nd Aug. in the Vorhalden Frickenhauser Huth Kirchheim Forest
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Superb aged face
Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
Samuel Howitt, Shooting Anecdote, India 1 - 121 pages on hunting , 125 pages on hounds :
John Sherer, Rural Life
Described and Illustrated, in the management … treatment … - “Is one of the greatest amusements of grandseigneurs”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Water Hunt - Ludwig Voltz, Three Chamois Heads
- Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt:
Antonio Tempesta, Deer Shooting behind Screen
Fishing & Angling
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- The Fisherman representing the Water
David Teniers II, The Four Elements in Large Figures - The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor
- State-in-progress unknown to literature
before completion of the second state
Hermanus van Brussel, The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water
Horses & Riding
- “Are regarded as excellently superior”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Black Brown Bay. Noir Bais Brun. - Johann Elias Ridinger, Chestnut Skewbald. Pie Chastagne.
- “The fine horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Light Dapple Gray with White Extremities. Gris Pomelé avec les extremités blanches. - “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer - Terrifically Tangible Speed of Movement
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings”
Cartography
- Dominum Venetum
com adjacentibus Mediolan, Mantuano etc. - Carte de la Tartarie Chinoise
- Lombardy – Ducatus Mediolanensis cum adjacentibus Principat et Dominiis
- Les Isles Britanniques, Comprenant les Royaumes d’Angleterre,
d’Ecosse et d’Irlande divisée en grandes Provinces - In deep coloring as extremely seldom only
and extravagant Russia leather binding
Atlas Rvssicvs … Vastissimvm Imperivm Rvssicvm cum adiacentibvs Regionibvs
Views & Local History
- Dornburg (Saale, Thuringia)
- When the greatest were at home there :
Amsterdam. Panoramic general view from the seaside - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Palace and Ruin Sayn
- Marco Polo’s legendary “Quinzay” :
Hangzhou (Hang-chou or Hangchow) – Xvntien alias Qvinzay - Before the redesign in the 19th century :
The Marriage Hall at the Town of Antwerp
Law / Proclamations
- Chancellery License by the Royal Schleswig=Holstein Chancellery at Copenhagen in regard of the exemption of the commanders of evers and other freight vessels and their sons from army service (March 7, 1814)
- Proclamation by Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg,
subjecting the horses’ glanders to the duty of notification (1771) - Undistrainable :
Extending the ban on seizure from public officers to tobacco distributors (1805) - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
- Mann – Klaus W. Jonas, Fifty Years of Thomas Mann Studies
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
- Philosophical Explication, The Colors to Histories and Heraldics
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
Prints
- Frontispiece to (Dr. Brook) Taylor’s Perspective
- Gaetano Gherardo Zompini, The Coal Carriers
- Hermann Hendrichs as Demetrius
in F. Gustav Kühne’s drama “Demetrius” after Schiller’s draft - Épreuve de Luxe on silk :
Jan Mauritz Quinkhard, Albertus Voget - Theodor Reusche as Jsak Stern
in O. F. Berg’s burlesque “One of our Folks”
Portraits
- In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait
Ferdinand Magellanus - Johann Christoph Thenn von Augsburg Evang. Pfarrer bey St. Ulrich
- Ludovjcus VIII. D. G. Landgravius Hassiæ-D(armstadiæ). Princeps Hersfeldiae, Comes in Catimeliboco, Decia, Ziegenhaina, Nidda, Schaumburgo, Isenburgo et Budinga etc. Sacræ Cæsareæ ac Regiæ Hungaricæ et Bohemicæ Apostol. Majestatis Supremus Campo Mareschallus et cohortis Dimacharum Summus Præfectus
- Only Portrait of Fielding
Henry Fielding. Ætatis XLVIII - Épreuve de luxe on Silk
Albertus Voget
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