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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 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 - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - 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
- Bibliothèque Raphael Esmerian
- 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
and enclosed original preparatory drawing in reverse for The Lynx - Comprehensible only today :
Adalbert Stifter, Witiko (Insel edition) - 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 - 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©
- 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) - 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 - 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 - In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century
Drawings
- Monogramist B.S., Young Man putting on the Gaiters
- “Draughtsman Ingenious to the Extreme Finger-tip”
Carl Strathmann, Ibycus
A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finished’ Work of Art and Precious Cimelium
for a Main Work of Munich Art Nouveau - First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses - 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 - Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolles Collection :
Johann Elias Ridinger, An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below
Prints
- No frills fantastic main sheet in the 2nd state of the 1st version :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Omnia Mihi Subdita / The Rule of Death - After Boucher’s “Les amours pastorales”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Happy Shepherd’s Life in wonderfully large leaf - Václav Hollar, Nauis Bellica Hollandica
- Just outwardly harmless-charming :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Neglected Household underlayed by symbols of vanity - The grand , the timeless late accord
Honoré Daumier, To the War of 1870-71
“ Like a Symbol of Eternity each of these Figures stands ”
Paintings
- “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 - “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 - 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
- Corinth – Karl Schwarz, The Graphic Work of Lovis Corinth
- Brilliant Old Master in the Blaze of Expressionism :
Franz Heckendorf, The Lion’s Assault on a Wild Boar in the Oasis - The Lesser Uri of Paris :
Eugène Béjot, Le Pont Saint Louis, Paris - “Belongs to the Most Important Representatives of European Symbolism”
Rudolf Jettmar, Canyon - A Backhuysen for the Birthday :
Horst Janssen, Backhuizen greets Stubbe at June 7, 1988
William Hogarth
- The Five Orders of Perriwigs
as they were worn at the late Coronation - Who would shoot himself for just that?
A Country Inn Yard
(or The Election Procession in the Yard) - Converting words into money :
Some of the Principal Inhabitants of the Moon - Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- The Idle ‘Prentice return’d from Sea, & in a Garret with a common Prostitute
Industry & Idleness VII
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Capital painterly drawing from the early days :
To catch the Wolf in the Pit with the Sheep
Washed brush and brown pen and ink for Th. 41 - The Porcupine
The original printing plate for Th. 480 - Still without the 3rd hare :
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 - Pride dispising others will come to naught by itself
- “Yet the Rose keeps in Dispute always the Special Price”
The Smell. / Odoratus.
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro - From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse … - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - 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
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- A particular sujet :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- When European Values still were worth an Educational Trip
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Vengeance of a Lowly on a Mighty is pernicious - The hunt’s finest close –
a graphic unicum from famous stable :
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Hunting Luck - Johann Elias Ridinger, A Wild Sow with her Young Ones or Shoats in the Lair
- “Several Birds not yet depicted at his Time”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Birds of Prey by Day and Owls - Missing in Helbing’s gigantic offer of 1900 :
Johann Elias Ridinger, How the Deer are stalked in a Deer Park
Fishing & Angling
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada - Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
Horses & Riding
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp,
Hereditary Prince of Norway, Crown Prince of Sweden - Auf anglisiertem Tigerpferd
Johann Elias Ridinger, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland - The horse call of world literature:
“A horse , a horse , my kingdom for a horse”
Nathaniel Dance, Mr. Garrick in Richard the Third
Splendid early impression before the title - Monsieur le Pompadour
Johann Elias Ridinger, Louis XV of France - Johann Elias Ridinger, Flea-bitten Gray. Tuité noir.
Cartography
- Russia – Guillaume de l’Isle, Mappæ Imperii Moscovitici
- “One of the greatest Dutch cartographers” :
Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, Vltraiectinvs, Episcop(atvs) - Carte des Gouvernements de l’Isle de France
et de celui de l’Orleanois - Carte des Gouvernements Flandre Françoise,
d’Artois, de Picardie et du Boulenois - Unknown to literature and BL & LoC :
Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie,
(subdivided in three provinces: Tobolsk, Jenissejesk, Irkutsk)
Views & Local History
- Bernhard Mannfeld, City Hall in Lübeck
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Sterrenberg and Liebenstein, the Hostile Brothers (with Bornhofen and Bad Salzig)
- Louis François Cassas, Château et portion de la ville de Hemss (Jadis Emèse, Homs)
- The classic hike
Königssee – Obersee – Fischunkel Alp
Obersee and Fischunkel Alp near Berchtesgaden
The by far rarer large version in moreover impression before the letter - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Assmannshausen
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) - Fighting for good and protection of the environment II :
Patent of Maximilian II Emanuel Elector of Bavaria on the Comprehensive Improvement of the Game Stock and the Hunting System in Bavaria (1717) - Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks - Hamburg’s Shipping & Trade
during the American War of Independence :
Regulation, in regard of Hamburg’s Trade and Shipping, during the War (September 18, 1778) - Chancellery License by the Royal Schleswig=Holstein Chancellery at Copenhagen in regard of the exemption of the commanders of evers and other freight vessels and their sons from army service (March 7, 1814)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Deutsche Rundschau
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
- Christianus Reineccius, Janua Hebrææ linguæ veteris Testamenti & Grammatica Hebræo-Chaldaica
- Epiktet. Manual of Stoic Moral
- Banned in Prussia – one edition followed the other :
August Hermann Niemeyer, Textbook for the upper religion classes at scholar schools
Prints
- François Boucher, Charbon, Charbon
- “The Pioneer of Mezzotint Engraving in America”
John Sartain, Amelia awaiting the Return of her Husband - Therese Döllinger as Bärbchen
in Gustav Griepenkerl’s play “Auf der hohen Rast” - A. Smith, Examination of a Village School
- Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, Marchande de Volaille et de Gibier
Portraits
- 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
- Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Franz Edmvnd Weirotter
- “The Programmatic Mezzotint”
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - Jean de Julienne
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