60 Years
The Fine & Rare
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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
- In a Remarkable Case with Griffin & Lion
Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben - Imperial Thanks
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884 - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - 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
- On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818 - “The Golden Age of Porcelain”
Hand-bound édition de luxe in vellum
Nicola Moufang, Alt-Berlin in Porzellan (Old Berlin in Porcelain) - In May von Weinberg’s armorial binding by Ernst Ludwig
Honoré de Balzac, Les Paysans. Scènes de la vie de campagne.
With 50 etchings by Georges Jeanniot - Comprehensible only today :
Adalbert Stifter, Witiko (Insel edition) - 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
The Red Series©
- Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - 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 - 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) - In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century - Le Grand Exemplaire
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Fair Game hunted by the different kinds of hounds
With the original printing plate of the title as solitaire on the board
and enclosed original preparatory drawing in reverse for The Lynx
Drawings
- Rare pioneer of English marine painting –
here a vellum drawing along with the respective print :
Thomas Baston, Shipwreck - Precious also the material – vellum :
Le Brun – Lion Hunt. King-size pen and brown ink - When India stopped the West :
Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century - Outline design in original size of just the hounds :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds - Brilliant, graphically utterly executed study
of incredible dynamics
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight
Prints
- First time :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Africa - Paul Bril. Waterfall at Tivoli (?)
- “… has an extraordinary pure and fine needle” :
(Samuel Howitt), Howitt’s miscellaneous Etchings, old & new - Anyhow — 13 at a blow :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Presentation of both Roman as Grecian War Folks - Johann Christian Reinhart, The Landscape with the Hunter and the Two Hounds
Paintings
- 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 - 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
XXth Century
- Carl Joseph Bauer, Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
- From the years of the early triumphs – A symphony in green + blue :
Franz Heckendorf, House in the Park from 1921 - Gert Biese, Two Resting Woman
- “Abstract record in powerful colorfulness”
Alfred Eichhorn, Archipelago (Formentera) - Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen
William Hogarth
- The Times of Day (and the Year)
- Attorneys + drayman :
A morning in London
as the second stage of cruelty - “Capable of any wickedness” :
Sarah Malcolm, three days before her hanging - 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 - Unmercifully Swung Satiric Scourge
Hogarth’s Trial Gallop to Butler’s English Don Quixote
Frontispiece and its Explanation
Hudibras I
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Instructive representation of partridge catching :
How the Partridges are captured with the Net - “Monkeys always fascinated artists” :
Ten Plates Monkeys or Animals related to them - The as classical as painterly sujet
The Par Force Hunt - One of the Largest Sheets from Ridinger’s Publishing House
in undescribed state :
Moses smites Water from the Rock - “One can use them for hunting”
The Lynx, there are two Kinds, have 2. to 3. cubs, and shall live long
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- 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 … - Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse …
Joseph Georg Wintter
- As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Artist + print equally rare :
Ernst Philipp Thoman von Hagelstein, The Gutting of the Stag (“The Earth”) - Of greatest rarity :
Eugen Krüger, Snipe Hunt - Eagle – Aquila Commune. Aquila fusca. (Golden Eagle)
- “This is one of the funniest,
but also most dangerous hunts”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Boar Hunt - “… have drawn myself from a Taxidermied Original”
Johann Elias Ridinger, African Elk. Elan d’Afrique nom(m)é Couttou
Fishing & Angling
- Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
- Wrasses – Labrus
- In a fine library copy :
The Sportsman’s Dictionary
with instructions for angling, hunting, and many more - Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
- In a fine contemporary calf binding by Hersant
P(etrus) Fisher, The Angler’s Souvenir with 31 engraved plates
Horses & Riding
- “A fine Isabella”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Good Build of a Horse. La beauté et les Parties exterieures du Cheval. - “As a Rarity paid for Very Dearly in 1743”
Johann Elias Ridinger, This Young Tiger Horse had this Ear-Bouquet of black color
The original printing plate to Th. 280 - Johann Elias Ridinger, Pirouette right on a circle
of the length of the horse - Baron von Eisenberg, Le Ballon
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Poupon
Cartography
- With separate local index :
Daniæ Regnum cum Ducatu Holsatiæ et Slesvici - Unknown to literature and BL & LoC :
Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie,
(subdivided in three provinces: Tobolsk, Jenissejesk, Irkutsk) - Les Indes Orientales et leur Archipel
- Iran – Carte de l’Empire de Perse
- England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
Views & Local History
- Bremen Monumental
Rudolph Ernst Schilling, PERSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS
of the Imperial and Hanse City BREMEN
First Piece (all) - Bernhard Mannfeld, From Strasbourg (Alsace)
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Neuwied
- In the original coloring :
Ehrenberg/Lech – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The Barriere at the Castle of Ehremberg (Ehrenberg Castle) - Senlis
Law / Proclamations
- The string-version to hang out :
Directions regarding the Restriction of Keeping Dogs and the Prevention of the Danger to be afraid of rabid Dogs (1797) - An extraordinarily rare Wedding Gift :
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the procedure of wedding celebrations (1604) - Dramatic composition &
masterly physiognomic description of characters :
William Hogarth, Paul before Felix
The trial against the apostle Paul
before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea - Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks - “Capable of any wickedness” :
William Hogarth, Sarah Malcolm, three days before her hanging
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
- Deutsche Rundschau
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - In a Remarkable Case with Griffin & Lion
Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben - Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
Prints
- Golf – Caddie: “Ave yer finished wi’ the links for to-day, Sir?”
- Dairy Farming – La Vache
- Jules Laurens, Pies sous bois
- French Lady. XVth Century
- Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence
née archduchess of Austria
Portraits
- David Garrick (in Richard the Third)
- Martin Folkes Esq.
- 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
- With exceptionally Beautiful Vienna Provenance Story close to the Immortal Beethoven
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont
“ Pursuant to your last kind e-mail, I am placing my personal check in the amount of US$ … in the mail today. When it arrive, please send the print … It has been a pleasure dealing with you ”
(Mr. + Mrs. R. G. S., October 30, 2002)