Six Decades
The Fine & Rare

Autographs & Manuscripts

• 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
• About theatre, culture & art :
  Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar
• Imperial Thanks
  Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
  Augsburg 24 August 1746
• The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library
  Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
  With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials
• In Hare Hunt Case with Griffin & Lion
  Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben

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Bibliophily

• The Édition de Luxe in only 55 autographed copies :
  Romain Rolland, Beethoven the Creator. The Great Creative Epochs
  I: From the Eroica to the Appassionata
• 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
• In the Binding of the Archducal Chamber Bookbinder :
  Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann, My Hunting Expedition in the Year 1909
  With 87 heliogravures on mounted China
• The Heinrich Stinnes Copy
  No. I/XL of the Luxury Edition in ruby red morocco
  The Venuswagen
  A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with 78 Original Prints
  9 volumes (all published)
• 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

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The Red Series^©

• Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
  F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot)
• 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 Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
  Atlas Rvssicvs
  In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only
• 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
• 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)

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Drawings

• Chief washed drawing from the Master’s early days :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, To catch the Wolf in the Pit with the Sheep
• Pierre Justin Ouvrié, Thun
• Wilhelm von Kobell, The Horseshoeing
• Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Can lie down no more.
  Two horses in the stable
• “Alexander’s most heroic moment”
  François Verdier, Alexander the Great at the Wall of Multan (Punjab)

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Prints

• Peter Halm, View at Mayence
• Johann Elias Ridinger, The Four Seasons
• Against the zeitgeist – Intimate celebration of the family :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Mary with the Child – Joseph with the Child
• Lady Constance’s lament
  Thomas Landseer, “— now will canker Sorrow eat my bud”
• First time
  Before the background of
  what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
  Johann Elias Ridinger, In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum

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Paintings

• 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
• “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
• “They even surpass those in color charm” 
  Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest

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XX^th Century

• NIGHTLY METROPOLIS —
  here you bathe in it
  Franz Heckendorf, Fascination Sea of Light Metropolis – Munich
• “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
  Franz Heckendorf, Lugano
• Piet van Wyngaerdt, Snow Landscape with Houses beneath Trees at a Road
• “The Four Finest Graphic Collections of the Master” :
  Picasso – Catalogues of the Auctions 113 – 133 – 139 – 148
• 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)

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William Hogarth

• Henry Fox, Lord Holland
• The Idle ‘Prentice Executed at Tyburn
  Industry & Idleness XI
• The Breakfast of the Bridal Pair
  Marriage à la Mode II
• “What a strong bulwark!” :
  The Funeral Company
  A Harlot’s Progress VI
• The Leaders of the Presbyterian Scots
  The Committee / The Convenanters
  Hudibras IX

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Johann Elias Ridinger

• The Ernst von Feder Copy
  Africa. Plate 3 of the Four Continents
• Contemporarily Handel composed
  Dryden’s Famous Odes for St. Cecilia :
  S. Cæcilia, Patroness of Music
  Here with the harp as rarer attribute
• “Keeps the Advancing Hounds in Mighty Respect”
  The Lynx
  Pen-and-ink in brown with brown wash over traces of graphite for Th. 148
• First scientific representation of the rhinoceros
  RHINOCEROS. Nasehorn. Rhinocerot
  Drawn by Ridinger “from life” in Augsburg 1748
• The Brilliant Copy of the C. F. G. R. Schwerdt Collection
  Hunting Scenes for Roe – Boar – Bear – Quail
  Set of 4 mezzotints by Johann Andreas Pfeffel

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Rugendas Artist Dynasty

• Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
• Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
• 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, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting …
• Superb aged face
  Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs

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Joseph Georg Wintter

• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
  Georg von Dillis
• Saving Their Hides in the Munich Deer Park
  Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence
• “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
• 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

• Saving Their Hides in the Munich Deer Park
  Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence
• “If by the leader some stags confirmed”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, The Stags fallen into the Net
• Still without the 3^rd hare :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Lying in wait for Hares
  and How They are driven by the Stoberhund
  Traced & ruddled preparatory drawing in reverse for Th. 45
  from the Dr. Edward Peart Collection
• The Quagga of the South African Plains
  Johann Elias Ridinger, African Donkey. Ane Afriquain
• “… they even surpass those in color charm” 
  Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest

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Fishing & Angling

• Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
• State-in-progress unknown to literature
  before completion of the second state
  Hermanus van Brussel, The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water
• The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
  L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
• Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
• Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore

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Horses & Riding

• Johann Elias Ridinger, Chestnut Skewbald. Pie Chastagne.
• Baron von Eisenberg, Le Hardi
• In the royal panoramic size :
  Henry Barraud, Punchestown 1868 – Royal Visit
• Johann Elias Ridinger, The going back at the Wall
• Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Can lie down no more

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Cartography

• Tartaria sive Magnichami Imperiorum
• Portugal – Spain – Hispania
  After Rodrigo Mendez Sylva
• Germany – Austria – BeNeLux – France :
  Matthäus Albrecht + Georg Friedrich Lotter
  Carte Geographique Representant le Cours entier du RHIN ,
  de la MOSELLE / de la MEUSE et de l’ESCAUT
• Russia – Guillaume de l’Isle, Mappæ Imperii Moscovitici
• Dominum Venetum
  com adjacentibus Mediolan, Mantuano etc.

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Views & Local History

• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, The Lorelei Rock
• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Vue de Caub et du Palatinate
• Nauvoo (Mississippi)
• Eduard Gaertner, The Royal Theatre with German Cathedral at the Gendarmenmarkt (Berlin)
• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruins of Heimbach Castle (Niederheimbach)

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Law / Proclamations

• Of Seizures & Legal Procedures
• Variant in the direction of the painting :
  William Hogarth, And as he reasoned of righteousness,
  temperance, and Judgment to come, Felix trembled
  The trial against the apostle Paul
  before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea
  A dramatic composition &
  masterly physiognomic description of characters
• Proclamation by the Royal Holstein=Lauenburg Supreme Court at Glückstadt
  in regard of the establishment of a consulate-general for Elbe affairs (April 28, 1823)
• Down to the gardens outside Brunswick + Wolfenbüttel :
  Renewed (and enlarged) Decree of Louis Rudolph (1732) by Charles I, Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the poaching and the shooting of high and small game in the forest, hunting districts and preserves, yet now also in the gardens (1773)
• Since the success not corresponded to the result hoped for :
  Edict (by Frederick William of Prussia) Regarding the Becoming Rabid of Dogs (1797)

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Miscellanea

Books – Prints – Portraits