60 Years
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Schußfrei vor Ort
Die Hirsche vom Starnberger See
Beethoven – Die Seyfried Papiere
Unikate Ulm-Provenienzen
ridinger hunt par force
Saint Hubert
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 - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - 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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 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
- Le Grand Exemplaire
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Fair Game hunted by the different kinds of hounds
With the printing plate of the title as solitaire on the board
and enclosed original preparatory drawing in reverse for The Lynx - Author – Printer – Imprint not cracked in 235 Years
Lettres d’un Souverain Philosophe … à l’éducation d’un jeune Prince. Par le Chevalier ****.
A Subversive Homage on Frederick II of Prussia - To Bonn’s Spectacular Beethoven Jubilé 175 Years Ago
Gustav Schilling (ed.), BEETHOVEN-ALBUM.
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased
In extravagant binding with ducal crown - 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 - On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818
The Red Series©
- Earliest (?) Ridinger Photographicum
Johann Laifle, Ridinger-Album
50 Albumen Prints from the Original Etchings - In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - 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
- First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses - “Draughtsman Ingenious to the Extreme Finger-tip”
Carl Strathmann, Ibycus
A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finished’ Work of Art and Precious Cimelium
for a Main Work of Munich Art Nouveau - Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- Belonging to the “drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Put to the Carriage.
Young one-horse lively stepping out - Expressively shining South :
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Landscape with Minaret
Prints
- Paul Bril, Rocky Coastal Landscape
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- “The Pioneer of Mezzotint Engraving in America”
John Sartain, Amelia awaiting the Return of her Husband - Annibale Carracci, Scopettaro (Brush Seller)
- Patroness of philosophers :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Paintings
- “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 - “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus, Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt - 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
XXth Century
- Rainer Scheithauer, Nude of a Woman 7
- Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen - Joan Miro, Der Lithograph. Vol. III: 1964-1969
- Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
- “Belongs to the Most Important Representatives of European Symbolism”
Rudolf Jettmar, Canyon
William Hogarth
- The Idle ‘Prentice Executed at Tyburn
Industry & Idleness XI - The Killing of the Earl Squanderfield
Marriage à la Mode V - The House of Commons
in Sir Robert Walpole’s Administration - Dramatic composition &
masterly physiognomic description of characters :
Paul before Felix - Resort in bad times :
Consultation of Physicians – Arms of the Undertakers
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Detailed by numbers
Compulsory Trap before the Earth of a Badger - Ridingeriana rarity of degree
Charles Frederick Prince of HohenzollernSigmaringen shoots this Stag Of odd 18 points
Antlers design to Th. 353 sent by the princely court to the Ridingers for rendering in copper - Document of a moment of German history :
In the Year 1734 this Well-Trained Pointer has been drawn from Nature … inside the Pheasantry by the Imperial Pleasure Seat Nymphenburg at Munich - “… Most Felicitous Representation”
Trace of a Game or Deer - So goes the violinist :
The Night of the Ridinger of the Netherlandish borrowing from Ostade
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - Tangible speed of movements hard to render
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings” - Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- “Wintter ex Monachi” — The fine pendants
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Hunter lying in wait for the Stag of 10 Points — The Stag of 10 Points barked dead - Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Forst-Calender
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, A Dead Wild Boar
- As rare as instructive and charming :
Charles Aubry, Chasses Anciennes
d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XVe Siècles - One of the finest, most elegant sujets :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Coursing a Hare. Chasseur aux levrieres - “The illustration of the Giant Anteater quite well-done”
Martin Elias Ridinger, Ant Eater = / particular Scaly Animal =. Fourmiller= / Quogelo=
Fishing & Angling
- The Fisherman representing the Water
David Teniers II, The Four Elements in Large Figures - Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Fishing & Angling in England :
William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy - Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
- 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
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Full capriole straight ahead
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Sensible
- “An admirable work on the subject” :
Henry William Herbert, The Horse of America - Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
Watercolor over pen and ink - Proclamation by Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg,
subjecting the horses’ glanders to the duty of notification
Cartography
- “One of the greatest Dutch cartographers” :
Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, Vltraiectinvs, Episcop(atvs) - In deep coloring as extremely seldom only
and extravagant Russia leather binding
Atlas Rvssicvs … Vastissimvm Imperivm Rvssicvm cum adiacentibvs Regionibvs - Representative Colored Wall Map
on the Landing of Charles III in Spain :
Gerard Valk, Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ - Russia – Guillaume de l’Isle, Mappæ Imperii Moscovitici
- Carte de la Tartarie Chinoise
Views & Local History
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Rheineck Castle (opposite Hönningen)
- Etsch – Veronese Defile – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The pass of Chiusa and distant Mountains near Belluno and Ossenigo
- The most important sacred building of the city :
Tabernacle in Ste Gudule’s Church, Brussels - Bernhard Mannfeld, From the Cathedral in Ulm
- Schwarzburg (Thuringia)
Law / Proclamations
- 100 years game law in five succeeding generations :
Hunting Edicts by the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg 1705-1805 - 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) - Need of reform with the execution of sentence :
William Hogarth, Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons - House Purchase of furrier Carl Siegmund Brix in Lüchow and its decades-long financing by short-term money
- Finally hygiene is realized as protection against illness :
Mandate (by Frederick Augustus of Saxony) Regarding the Restriction of Keeping Dogs and the Prevention of the Danger to be afraid of rabid Dogs (1796)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Mann – Will Schaber, Thomas Mann to his sixtieth Birthday
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
- Hans Brandenburg, The Modern Dance
- Mann – Georg Lukacs, Thomas Mann
- Christianus Reineccius, Janua Hebrææ linguæ veteris Testamenti & Grammatica Hebræo-Chaldaica
Prints
- Pu-Quà, A Porter with Fruit Trees and Flowers
- Balber. Indian Barber with his Utensils (2)
- Carl Porth as Pope Gregory V
in Julius Leopold Klein’s drama “Maria” - Hungarian Tycoon & Hungarian Noblewoman
- German Nobleman & Noblewoman
Early XVIth Century
Portraits
- “Painter of the Galleys and Big Ships”
Andreas van Ertvelt. Pictor Triremivm Navivmqve Maiorvm Antverpiae - With exceptionally Beautiful Vienna Provenance Story close to the Immortal Beethoven
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
- John Wilkes
- Benjamin Hoadly Lord Bishop of Winchester
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