55 Years
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily
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
- 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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 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 - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials
Bibliophily
- 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 - 300 years porcelain production in Germany ,
265 years porcelain production in Berlin
Nicola Moufang, Old Berlin in Porcelain
“The golden age of porcelain” –
adequately in the hand-bound édition de luxe - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790 - 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) - Copy of the Century
in Imperial Ruby Leather :
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great
(Tableaux du Roy, représentant cinq sujets de l’histoire d’Alexandre le Grand)
Drawings
- Brilliant, graphically utterly executed study
of incredible dynamics
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- The beginning of a decades-long chain :
The 16(?)-year-old Ridinger’s fully valid drawing
Johann Elias Ridinger, Mule from Front - Master of the South German landscape :
Gustav Kampmann, Greifenberg - Rare draughtsman of the Golden Century
Daniel Vertangen, Bacchanal
Fabulous vinousness on vellum
Hans Bol
Deer Hunt and Shipbuilding at the River amidst Woody Landscape
Prints
- With art-historically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheet - Jan van Huchtenburgh, A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen
- “Rediscovered American Etcher” :
Stephen Windsor Parrish, An Old Farm near the Sea (Niles Farm, Cape Ann) - Hans Bol, Deer Hunt and Shipbuilding at the River amidst Woody Landscape
- Scheming new mischief as always :
Thomas Landseer, “What wanton tricks sly Cupid plays, When’eer the rogue’s let loose!”
Paintings
XXth Century
- Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice - “Important Colorist”
Alexander Bertelsson, Boats at Lake Walchen, Bavaria - Gert Biese, Two Resting Woman
- Millet – condensed
Dirk Koning, The Gleaners - Piet van Wyngaerdt, Snow Landscape with Houses beneath Trees at a Road
A Woman swearing her Child to a grave
Citizen
William Hogarth
- The Battle of the Pictures
- Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- The Idle ‘Prentice
at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service
Industry & Idleness III - The Industrious ‘Prentice Lord Mayor of London
Industry & Idleness XII - The Stage is the room of a Justice of the Peace :
A Woman swearing her Child to a grave Citizen
In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum
Johann Elias Ridinger
- The as classical as painterly sujet
The Par Force Hunt - “His Antlers are quite special … Like an Eagle’s Wings”
The Elk or Moose obtains its Height in its Sixth Year only,
usually they have two, but also only one calf - The Lion Copy
as the deviating AUTHOR’S COPY
grangerized with an additional worldwide unicum :
Illustration of the Fair Game with the respective Tracks and Traces
in proofs before numbering - “This is one of the funniest,
but also most dangerous hunts”
The Boar Hunt - First time
Before the background of
what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum
Johann Moritz Rugendas
Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- 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 - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially
Joseph Georg Wintter
The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- A particular sujet :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season - First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- The Brilliant Copy of the C. F. G. R. Schwerdt Collection
Johann Elias Ridinger, Hunting Scenes for Roe – Boar – Bear – Quail
Set of 4 mezzotints by Johann Andreas Pfeffel - In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
Samuel Howitt, Hindoo Elephant Trap (Chasse de l’Éléphant) - Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Antelope Hunt with Cheetah in India - Stood Model for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
Johann Elias Ridinger, Trace of a Marten / Trace of the Weasel - To today’s gamekeepers & huntsmen of his mind
Hermann Löns — Hunting Paths
W(illiam). Ross King
The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada
Fishing & Angling
- Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada - Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis
(= Istiophorus platyterus)
Johann Elias Ridinger
Dark Gray with White Extremities: Gris foncé avec les extremités blanches.
Horses & Riding
- Hippological splendor of the Orient
Johann Elias Ridinger, Turkish Horse Finery - Stud-farm before painterly Harz Mountains scenery :
Karl Dietrich Pirscher, View of the Ducal Brunswick Stud-Farm Harzburg - Johann Elias Ridinger, Chestnut Skewbald. Pie Chastagne.
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - “A noble horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Gray with White Extremities: Gris foncé avec les extremités blanches.
Cartography
Views & Local History
- Bernhard Mannfeld, Bacharach (Rhine)
- Before painterly Harz Mountains scenery :
Karl Dietrich Pirscher, View of the Ducal Brunswick Stud-Farm Harzburg - In the original coloring
Veronese Defile – Etsch – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The pass of Chiusa and distant Mountains near Belluno and Ossenigo - Bremen Monumental
Rudolph Ernst Schilling, PERSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS
of the Imperial and Hanse City BREMEN
First Piece (all) - Tyrol in “earliest presentations of pure mountain views”
Law / Proclamations
- Of Seizures & Legal Procedures
- Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras in Tribulation
The knight & Ralpho in stocks - Circular, Announcing a composed work on horse-breeding (1807)
- “To the Perpetual Disgrace of Public Justice”
Top class political murder as climax of a legal scandal stirring all Europe
Reliable Biography of the British Admiral of the White Flag John Byng,
executed March 14, 1757
Exceedingly rare hot off the press anonymous German publication of still the same year - The most shining side of customs :
Poster by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
regarding several special tariffs because of suffered average or winter quarters (Dec. 22, 1830)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Berlin – Günter Neumann – “(The
Islander doesn’t lose the patience)”
Books
- Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- Mann – Georg Lukacs, Thomas Mann
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – Günter Neumann – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the patience)”
Advertisement of the cigar factory of
Juan Arroyo in Morelia
Prints
- Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- Pu-Quà, A Bricklayer
- Wilhelm Kaiser as Cardinal Richelieu
in A. E. Brachvogel’s drama “Mondecaus” - Advertisement of the cigar factory of Juan Arroyo in Morelia
- A. Smith, Examination of a Village School
Portraits
- Only Portrait of Fielding
Henry Fielding. Ætatis XLVIII - Hans Holbein II (Self-portrait and that of his wife)
- James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont
- Sarah Malcolm
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
“ The method you describe sounds excellent. Please proceed … ”
(Mr. J. R. C., September 16, 2003)