60 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
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 - 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 - Imperial Thanks
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - 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 - 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
Bibliophily
- 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 - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790 - The Otter Copy with book + inlaid printing plate :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
in the first edition of the final state - 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 - 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 Red Series©
- In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - 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 - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - Copy of the Century in Imperial Ruby Leather
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great - 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
- Pierre Justin Ouvrié, Thun
- The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. - Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Can lie down no more.
Two horses in the stable - Johann Elias Ridinger, Lion in profile to the right,
standing with the fore paws on a killed wild boar
2 sketches - Ludwig Voltz, Three Chamois Heads
Prints
- In the hitherto unknown second state :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Pastor bonus - George Moutard Woodward, Steward – Footman
- Anyhow — 13 at a blow :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Presentation of both Roman as Grecian War Folks - Johann Heinrich Roos, Italian Landscape with Farmhouse
- With art-historically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheet
Paintings
- 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 - “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 - With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon
XXth Century
- Expressively Shining South :
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Landscape with Minaret - “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 - Carl Joseph Bauer, Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
- Corinth – Karl Schwarz, The Graphic Work of Lovis Corinth
William Hogarth
- “… painted with the greatest pleasure”
Captain Thomas Coram - The only portrait of Fielding :
Henry Fielding. Ætatis XLVIII - The Suicide of the Countess Squanderfield
Marriage à la Mode VI - Of downright frightening timelessness :
The Four Stages of Cruelty
as a
“Restrain the Beginnings!” - When laughing was still permitted :
The Laughing Audience
“The Masterly Reproduction of all Nuances of Laugh”
Johann Elias Ridinger
- “… Most Felicitous Representation”
Trace of a Game or Deer - The Stags from Lake Walenstadt in Switzerland :
The Pursued Stags - Just the hounds :
Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds
Outline design in the same direction and original size to Th. 397 - “One of the most distinguished Fathers of the Church”
and one of the greatest sons of Treves :
S. Ambrose - Spectacular Ridinger discovery — “Death’s Arch of Triumph”
Triumph of Death (after Andrea Andreani)
“A pasticcio of iconographic, iconological, and artistic citations”
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - “… 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
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters - 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 - Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Lion Hunt on Horseback in Classic Manner - “Two Badgers of One Kind”
Martin Elias Ridinger, Hound Badger. Hog Badger. Thaison canin. Thaison de pore - “The extraordinary hunting motif” :
Frans Snyders, Lioness striking a Wild Boar - (Auguste J. Fr.) Comte de Chabot, La Chasse à Travers les Ages
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Common Brown Hare. Lievre
Fishing & Angling
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Fishing & Angling in England :
William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy - Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
- The Fisherman representing the Water
David Teniers II, The Four Elements in Large Figures - Wrasses – Labrus
Horses & Riding
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Sensible
- “Very impatient and obstinate horses”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Liver Chestnut. Alzan brun. - “A true monster”
Johann Elias Ridinger, A Horse of all Faults. Lés defauts des Parties exterieures du Cheval. - Vivacious :
Joseph Georg Wintter
Biting Horses, driven apart by the groom - Johann Elias Ridinger, A Sledge-Horse with Little Bells
Cartography
- Important for the development of cartography :
Russia – Johann Matthias Haas
Imperii Russici et Tartariae universae tabula novissima - Languedoc & Roussillon – the region of good wine :
Carte des Gouvernements Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussillon,
avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guyenne - Representative Colored Wall Map
on the Landing of Charles III in Spain :
Gerard Valk, Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ - Belgium – Hannonia Namvricvm Comitatus (Hainaut – Namur)
- Unknown to literature and BL & LoC :
Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie,
(subdivided in three provinces: Tobolsk, Jenissejesk, Irkutsk)
Views & Local History
- Füssen, The Lech Fall at / German Lime Alps
- Interior of a House at Mechlin
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Biebrich
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Cat and St. Goarshausen. With Patersberg
- The splendid fountain on St. James’s Place :
Samuel Prout, At Basle – The James’s Place
De luxe impression in its fine original coloring
Law / Proclamations
- Against the Beer-Carouses during Execution
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting the bad habit of seizure-drinking at the expense of the seized (1747) - 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) - Circular, Regarding the extrapolation of the value of goods, especially in view of pawnee’s rights (1788)
- 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 (1845) - 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
- Prussia – (H. G. V. R. Count of Mirabeau), Atlas de la Monarchie Prussienne
- Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui &
The Deals of Mr. Julius Caesar in First Prints :
Bertolt Brecht – Sinn und Form. Contributions to Literature - Mann – Georg Lukacs, Thomas Mann
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
Prints
- Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- François Boucher, Charbon, Charbon
- Paul Gavarni, D’Après nature
- Pu-Quà, A Bricklayer
- Louis Julius as Blücher
in Arthur Müller’s play “How is the King?”
Portraits
- John Pine
- Jean de Julienne
- John Wilkes
- Johann Noa Buirette von Oehlefeld auf Wilhelmsdorff in Nürnberg
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
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