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
- 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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 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
- Cuir ciselé master binding of Georg Hulbe
Visitors’ Book of “Prinzessin Victoria Luise”
June 1905 – December 1906 - Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - 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 - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818
The Red Series©
- In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - 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 - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - 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)
Drawings
- Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Broken down and now recognized by the cavalryman as his former horse
- Master Drawing of High-class Provenance :
Dutch School – Landscape with the Three Peasants Cart-loading
From the C. R. Rudolf Collection - Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
- Outline design in original size of just the hounds :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds - Ludwig Voltz, Head of a Stag of 12 Points to the Left
Prints
- With art-historically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheet - À la the younger Josse de Momper :
The Winter - The famous scenery :
Johann Heinrich Roos, The Bull with the Bell - Count Brühl’s Heron Hawking
Carel van Falens, Prise du Héron - Paulus Potter, Cattle Piece
Paintings
- With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - 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 - “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 - “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus, Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg
XXth Century
- “Belongs to the Most Important Representatives of European Symbolism”
Rudolf Jettmar, Canyon - “Rediscovered American Etcher” :
Stephen Windsor Parrish, An Old Farm near the Sea (Niles Farm, Cape Ann) - 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) - André Rouveyre, Head
- Hoi Lebadang, Barques en Orient
William Hogarth
- The only portrait of Fielding :
Henry Fielding. Ætatis XLVIII - Apprehended by a Magistrate
A Harlot’s Progress III - A terrifyingly timeless-topical didactic example :
John Wilkes or The Attempt
“to set Despotism … at the Place of the Legal Forms” - The Invasion
(France & England) - 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
Johann Elias Ridinger
- “The strongest jumper”
Ibex. Le Bouquetin - One of Ridinger’s largest Crucifixions
In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum - Evangelische Kirchen Visitation
- “Is one of the greatest amusements of grandseigneurs”
The Water Hunt - The as instructive as painterly sheet
The Surrounded Hunt
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro - From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse … - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags - As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - 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
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Rarely in the picture –
the hunters’ practical know-how
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Gutting of Hare & Stag - Ludwig Voltz, Three Chamois Heads
- Johann Elias Ridinger, The Badger captured with the Turnpike
The original printing plate to Th. 91
partly unveils the mystery of the covered caption:
The caption was present! Indeed, it still is!! - (Auguste J. Fr.) Comte de Chabot, La Chasse à Travers les Ages
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Speckled Fallow Deer
Fishing & Angling
- Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- In a fine library copy :
The Sportsman’s Dictionary
with instructions for angling, hunting, and many more - Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Angling is the family’s pleasure
for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolzano (Lake Bolsena)
Horses & Riding
- Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Broken down
and now recognized by the cavalryman - “A beautiful horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Isabella. Isabelle commun. - “Are regarded as excellently superior”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Black Brown Bay. Noir Bais Brun. - Johann Elias Ridinger, Chestnut Skewbald. Pie Chastagne.
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Hardi
Cartography
- Carte des Gouvernements du Berri
- Iran – Carte de l’Empire de Perse
- Portugal – Spain – Hispania
After Rodrigo Mendez Sylva - Vallée du Rhône / Provence :
Carte des Gouvernements de Dauphiné et de Provence
avec le Comitat Venaissin et la Princ. d’Orange - Dominum Venetum
com adjacentibus Mediolan, Mantuano etc.
Views & Local History
- Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice - The Lesser Ury of Paris :
Eugène Béjot, Le Pont Saint Louis, Paris - Bremen Monumental
Rudolph Ernst Schilling, PERSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS
of the Imperial and Hanse City BREMEN
First Piece (all) - Épreuve de Luxe on silk :
Bremen – Jan Mauritz Quinkhard, Albertus Voget - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Rudesheim
Law / Proclamations
- Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks - When poachers are just collecting mushrooms in the Weser district :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, on behalf of the pretext of collecting mushrooms while poaching in the Weser district (Höxter-Holzminden) (1768) - The Military Boots Litigation in Hamburg :
Promemoria of the leather manufacture C. W. Müller & Co. in Hamburg - Proclamation by Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg,
subjecting the horses’ glanders to the duty of notification (1771) - 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)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - Mann – Will Schaber, Thomas Mann to his sixtieth Birthday
- Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
- Mann – Peter de Mendelssohn, Der Zauberer
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
Prints
- William Henry Pyne, Yeoman of the King’s Body-Guard
- Invigoration, warming up – and the probate cure of a hang-over
William Henry Pyne, Woman selling Salop - Eugène Louis Lami, Grande fête au Château de Versailles / Une Soirée chez le Duc d’Orléans
- Jean Baptiste Le Prince, La diseuse de bonne Avanture (The Fortune-Teller)
- Alexander Ver Huell, Flirt of two Students with a Milkmaid
Portraits
- “Painter of the Galleys and Big Ships”
Andreas van Ertvelt. Pictor Triremivm Navivmqve Maiorvm Antverpiae - “The Large Portrait of Anna Buirette of Oehlefeldt”
Frav Anna Elisabetha geborn - v(nd) vermæhlte Bvirette von Oehlefeldt - Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence, née archduchess of Austria
- In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait
Ferdinand Magellanus - Daniel Lock Esqr
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(Mr. A. C., March 27, 2008)