55 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
Certificate of heirship for Louise
Friederike Therese Schubert, née
Häussler
Autographs & Manuscripts
- The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
General Walther von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, then the putsch - Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler
Giuseppe Bossi
Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci. Libri quattro
Bibliophily
- In extravagant binding with ducal crown —
Bonn’s spectacular Beethoven jubilé
Gustav Schilling (ed.), BEETHOVEN-ALBUM.
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased - 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 - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 colored full-page sketch-maps + innumerable colored initials - The Monumental Luxury Edition
Giuseppe Bossi, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci. Libri quattro
Leonardo’s Last Supper in all its Facets in contemporary brown half leather - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790
The Red Series©
- Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - 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
Hendrik Verschuring
Resting Hunters & Falconers
Drawings
- Delicate Rococo drawing :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To Whistle the Roe! - The large drawing from the Counts Faber-Castell Collection :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Daniel in the Den of Lions
as symbolic parable for the Israelites - For the illustrated papers :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell - Precious also the material – vellum :
Le Brun – Lion Hunt. King-size pen and brown ink - Large-sized drawing of the Italianate Hendrik Verschuring
with both the stamps of the collection Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde :
Hendrik Verschuring, Resting Hunters & Falconers
Thomas Landseer
“When first I saw thee graceful move”
Prints
- With a provenance story as beautiful as rare close to the immortal Beethoven :
Johann Georg Bergmüller, IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - The by far rarer large version
in moreover impression before the letter :
Carl Ludwig Friedrich Viehbeck, Obersee and Fischunkel Alp near Berchtesgaden - The rare set in the charming troubadour style :
Charles Aubry, Chasses Anciennes d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XVe Siècles - Caterina Galli’s Love Song as Monkeyana
Thomas Landseer, “When first I saw thee graceful move” - So one gets up :
Johannes Stradanus, Staphæ, sive Stapedes. The Invention of the Stirrup
Aert van der Neer
River Landscape by Moonlight
Paintings
- “They even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - 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 - With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus
Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg
Franz Heckendorf
Fascination Sea of Light Metropolis – Munich
XXth Century
- Hoi Lebadang, Barques en Orient
- Hoi Lebadang, Barques before Cabins in the Jungle
- Corinth – Karl Schwarz, The Graphic Work of Lovis Corinth
- “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer - NIGHTLY METROPOLIS —
here you bathe in it
Franz Heckendorf, Fascination Sea of Light Metropolis – Munich
William Hogarth
- Country Dance
- Newspaper reading with second thoughts :
The Politician does not recognize that it’s already burning at his own - A just View of the British Stage,
or three heads are better than one,
Scene Newgate - The Man of Taste
- Rakewell marries an Old Maid
The Rake’s Progress V
Evangelische Kirchen Visitation
Johann Elias Ridinger
- 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 - “for the particular pleasure they are also hunted with hounds”
How the Roes are hunted with Hounds - First time
Complete as in individual sheets “very/exceedingly” rare of old
Ridinger’s set of the Fountains
in the copy Counts Faber-Castell - Evangelische Kirchen Visitation
- Departure for Hunting
The opening sheet to as well early as rarest set
whose “Report of the Dog Handler to the ‘Maître D’Équipage’”
served for the décor of a Meissen vase by Johann Joachim Kaendler
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- 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 … - The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - Tangible speed of movements hard to render
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings”
Joseph Georg Wintter
Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- 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, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
- A particular sujet :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Johann Elias Ridinger, The Entrance made at the Deer Park
- The thrillingly dynamic, painterly sheet
Johann Elias Ridinger, How the Hares are hunted with Hounds - 121 pages on hunting , 125 pages on hounds :
John Sherer, Rural Life
Described and Illustrated, in the management … treatment … - It always was a little more exciting to be in the World
Johann Jacob Ridinger, Many Lynxes are the Deer’s Death
Swell Ridingerianum — by each fresh look more fascinating - The Brandenburg 66-pointer in Moritzburg :
Johann Elias Ridinger, This Stag of 66. Points
His Majest. Frederick I King in Prussia
has shot himself in the District Fursten Walde
the 18th of September in the Year 1696
Fishing & Angling
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Wrasses – Labrus
- Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- Fishing & Angling in England :
William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy
Horses & Riding
- Belonging to the
“drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Accompanies the Mother at Work - The parade of the winners :
Vainqueurs des Steeple Chases de 1868
Review of the 8 winners of the 1868s steeplechases - F. R. de la Rue, Battle Horse with mounted Officer
with raised Sword in the right - Baron von Eisenberg, L’Arabe
- Cham, Henri IV
Cartography
- Worked one year after publication of Don Quixote :
Castile – Castiliae Veteris et Novae Descriptio - Italy – Central + Northern Italy
L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats - Carte de la Tartarie Chinoise
- England – Anglesey / Wight / Guernsey / Jersey
- Netherlands – Partie Septentrionale des Pays-Bas
Interior of St Loup’s
Church at Namur
Views & Local History
- Füssen, The Lech Fall at / German Lime Alps
- Obernitz
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Lahneck and St. John (Lahnstein)
- “The splendid tabernacle of St. James’s Church”
Tabernacle in St James’s Church, Louvain - Belgium’s most perfect Baroque church :
Interior of St Loup’s Church at Namur
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) - Royally approved Draft
for a new fee for the ferrymen of the city of Glückstadt
(Sep. 27, 1820) - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - 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) - Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
- The 1848 March Revolution
or
Berlin’s Parliament then and today
“under the system of the folks of the left”
Common Weekly for the districts Aschersleben,
Calbe, Mansfeld and the neighbouring … Anhalt. counties - Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder
- Mann – Die Neue Rundschau
Colored Presentations of Professions after Pu-Quà
Cantòn
Prints
- Pu-Quà, A Bricklayer
- Carl Mittell as Hungarian wire binder Ferenz
in Friedrich Wilhelm Kläger’s picture of life “A Kitchen Novel” - Gabriel Metsu, La Riboteuse Hollandoise
- Jean Baptiste Le Prince, La diseuse de bonne Avanture (The Fortune-Teller)
- Working on China’s rise :
Colored Presentations of Professions after Pu-Quà, Cantòn
Portraits
- Antoine Watteau
- James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont
- Adolphvs Fridericvs Hæres Norvegiæ Dux Holsatiæ, Slesvici, & Episc. Lvbecensis Sveciæ Regis declaratvs Svccessor
- Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- Épreuve de luxe on Silk
Albertus Voget
“ 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)