Six Decades
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts
- “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - 9 years before Heinrich Heine’s “Weaver’s Song” :
Promemoria of the leather manufacture C. W. Müller & Co. in Hamburg
towards a chamber there as military procurement office in regard of supplied boots - In Hare Hunt Case with Griffin & Lion
Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - 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
Bibliophily
- Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - In ruby morocco and here for the first time :
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - 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) - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790
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 - The Otter Copy with book & inlaid printing plate
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
in the first edition of the final state - Copy of the Century in Imperial Ruby Leather
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great - 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 - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings
Drawings
- “Keeps the Advancing Hounds in Mighty Respect”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Lynx
Pen-and-ink in brown with brown wash over traces of graphite - Outline design still deviating from the engraving :
Johann Elias Ridinger, French par Force Hounds - Your’s to discover :
Jean Baptiste Oudry (period), Bear-Baiting - Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
- From the drawing to the ready book
The able-bodied publisher’s 5-piece canon as exemplaire enrichi
Günther T. Schulz, Under Sail ’round Cape Horn
A live-illustrated tall ship voyage Hamburg – Nitrate-Chili – Hamburg
uniquely reflected here by
Drawing – Engraver’s Proof – Clean Sheet – Book in Preferential & Ordinary Binding
Prints
- Rights of Man – As topical as ever
Thomas Paine on the stage of the “Monkeyana”
Thomas Landseer, Rights of Man
“The sight of one of the most despicable of God’s creatures
Trumpling down the dearest rights of mankind,
and crushing with impunity the rising liberty …
is one of the most melancholy and degrading spectacles in existence” - Pieter de Molijn, Dune Landscape
- Early Swiss contribution to hippological prints :
Johann Meyer, Cavalry Battles after Heinrich Werdmüller - Visual joy and depth at once :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Fables - Johann Elias Ridinger, The Four Seasons
Paintings
- “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - “They even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - 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 - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
XXth Century
- Documented in Drawing, Painting & Lithograph
Franz Heckendorf, Camel Caravan in the High Mountains - Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
- A Backhuysen for the Birthday :
Horst Janssen, Backhuizen greets Stubbe at June 7, 1988 - (Documentation Catalogues on the Art of the 20th Century)
- Expressively Shining South :
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Landscape with Minaret
William Hogarth
- Sigismunda
Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo - The Five Orders of Perriwigs
as they were worn at the late Coronation - Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
- One of Hogarth’s most concentrated charges :
John Wilkes Esqr. + The Times
The Hero of the Press + The Political Blaze - The original version of 1736 :
The Distrest Poet —
an homage to Alexander Pope and his Dunciad
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Full capriole straight ahead
- One of the largest Ridinger drawings :
Daniel in the Den of Lions
as symbolic parable for the Israelites - With the eagle as revelation of Creation :
The Evangelist S. John - “A well-done representation” of the Guanaco
Camel Deer. Chameau=Cerf - Utterly undescribed 3rd version
as larger-sized variant to Th.-St. 1416
St. Francis of Paula, founder of the “Minims”
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially - “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters - As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- “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
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Ridinger-Par Force Hunt Etching as Oil Painting by Georg Adam Eger or his Circle :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
Executed as oil painting in the colors of Hesse-Darmstadt - Splendidly large-sized, splendidly high-graded drawing
and as such exceedingly precious today :
Johann Elias Ridinger, “The Spring of the Hounds”
The pictorial drawing for Th. 105 - When Corvids weren’t Protected Songbirds yet
Johann Elias Ridinger, Crow Magpie and Raven Lodge! - Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Hare Hunt with Crossbows - Johann Elias Ridinger, White Fallow Deer and the Hind;
they usually have two Young Ones, reach their strength in the 4th and 5th Year
Fishing & Angling
- In a fine contemporary calf binding by Hersant
P(etrus) Fisher, The Angler’s Souvenir with 31 engraved plates - Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
Horses & Riding
- “A delicate horse of rare color”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dun Colored. Pies Auber. - A rather rare scene
and as in the New World a rarer location, too :
The False Start Jerome Park New York
before the characteristic grandstand - Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
Watercolor over pen and ink - “The sable chestnuts … are far rarer”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Sable Chestnut. Alzan de Zibeline. - So one gets up :
Johannes Stradanus, Staphæ, sive Stapedes. The Invention of the Stirrup
Cartography
- Carte des Gouvernements d’Anjou et du Saumurois, de la Touraine, du Poitou, du Pays d’Aunis, Saintonge-Anoumois
- Carte des Gouvernements Flandre Françoise,
d’Artois, de Picardie et du Boulenois - England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
- Just one word: “Chablys” :
Burgundy – Carte des Gouvernements de Bourgogne,
de Franche Comté et de Lyonnois - Russia – Guillaume de l’Isle, Mappæ Imperii Moscovitici
Views & Local History
- Burgscheidungen (Thuringia)
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Klopp (Bingen)
- Obernitz
- Hudson Highlands – Near Forts Clinton & Montgomery
- Salt-Lake-City
Law / Proclamations
- Undistrainable :
Extending the ban on seizure from public officers to tobacco distributors (1805) - 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 - Fighting for good and protection of the environment I :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg concerning the increase of sparrow heads to be submitted (1749) - The Stage is the room of a Justice of the Peace :
William Hogarth, A Woman swearing her Child to a grave Citizen - Only light penalties for fish thieves in 1797
Publicandum (by the Royal Electoral Marchian War and Domain Chamber) On behalf of punishing the fish and especially carp thefts from the carp ponds (1797)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Christianus Reineccius, Janua Hebrææ linguæ veteris Testamenti & Grammatica Hebræo-Chaldaica
- Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- C. J. B. Karsten, On the Behaviour of Salts
- Heinrich Mann, Empfang bei der Welt
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
Prints
- Certificate of Discharge of the Electoral Hesse Life Guards
- Eugène Louis Lami, Grande fête au Château de Versailles / Une Soirée chez le Duc d’Orléans
- William Henry Pyne, Bishop
- William Henry Pyne, Herald
- A Pig and a Pullet :
Richard Newton, Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
Portraits
- In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait
Ferdinand Magellanus - Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
- 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
- Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne
- Jean de Julienne
Der hiesige Weihnachts-/Neujahrsgruß 2005 endete mit „In diesem Sinne recht schöne Weihnachtstage voll Harmonie und sammlungszugewandter Muße … “ , letzterer Wunsch in einer Grußerwiederung aufgegriffen wurde mit den Worten
„ das Gutwort des Jahres – sammlungszugewandte Muße – wunderbar, hab einigen LBA/Goethefreunden dieses Gutwort genannt. Sie haben in einer verwahrlosten Zeit ein ‚linguistisches Gespür’! “
(Herr R. K., 5. Januar 2006)