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 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 - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler
Bibliophily
- 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 - Exemplaire enrichi — from the drawing to the ready book
The able-bodied publisher’s 5-piece canon
Drawing – Engraver’s Proof – Clean Sheet – Book in Preferential & Ordinary Binding
uniquely reflected here
by an extraordinary symbiosis of pictorial charm, instruction & bibliophily
Günther Tordsen Schulz, Under Sail ’round Cape Horn
A live-illustrated tall ship voyage Hamburg – Nitrate-Chili – Hamburg - In the bibliophile private binding of E. J. Barron :
William Somervile, The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers - 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) - In the Binding of the Archducal Chamber Bookbinder :
Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann, My Hunting Expedition in the Year 1909
With 87 heliogravures on mounted China
The Red Series©
- 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 - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - 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
Drawings
- Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Can lie down no more.
Two horses in the stable - Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- Brilliant, graphically utterly executed study
of incredible dynamics
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - Outline design in original size of just the hounds :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds - Determined by the softness of its brush technique :
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Hunting Luck
Prints
- The authorship shrouded in mystery
Aert van der Neer, Winterscape with Kolf Players on the Ice - Franconian Saint Hubert in Rome :
Johann Christian Reinhart, The Landscape with Saint Hubert - Franz Edmund Weirotter, Suite de Paysages
- “… yet an art collector paid … 100 . for this sheet”
Jacob Duck, The River Landscape with the Waiting Rider - Dutch-fed lightning :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Memento Mori
Paintings
- “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 - 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 - 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
- Franz Marc — inspired by Ridinger
- Millet – condensed
Dirk Koning, The Gleaners - “Eminent document” :
Gustave Coquiot, Cubistes, Futuristes, Passéistes - Piet van Wyngaerdt, Snow Landscape with Houses beneath Trees at a Road
- The Colors of the Sixties :
Modern Artist’s Color Prints
William Hogarth
- Scene in a Madhouse
The Rake’s Progress VIII - “A Masterpiece of Physiognomic Character Portrayal”
Simon Lord Lovat - Near-Arrest for Debt
The Rake’s Progress IV - The Industrious Prentice
performing the Duty of a Christian
Industry & Idleness II - The Times of Day (and the Year)
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Contemporarily Handel composed
Dryden’s Famous Odes for St. Cecilia :
S. Cæcilia, Patroness of Music
Here with the harp as rarer attribute - “Two Badgers of One Kind”
Hound Badger. Hog Badger. Thaison canin. Thaison de pore - The entrance of a Deer Park with two Automatic Doors
- The noble game — from old noble estate :
The Deer’s Four Times of Day - “… this kind … is the most pernicious for them …”
How the Hares are catched with Nets
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - Tangible speed of movements hard to render
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings” - He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting …
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 - “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 - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season - Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters - Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
and supposedly provable completely here for the first time :
Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- With the 22-Page Story “The Bavarian Hiesel” :
L. C. E. H. F. Wildungen, Weidmanns Feierabende,
(a New Handbook for Hunters and Friends of Hunting) - Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Lion Hunt on Horseback in Classic Manner - Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, A Stag Hunt
- The Arenberg Copy
Johann Elias Ridinger, How the Wild Boar is hunted and dealt the coup de grâce
Ultimate Representation of a Hunting-Historical Zenith - Eagle Owl – Hare – Hunter – Triad
Johann Elias Ridinger, The poor hare falls to the sun-shy owl’s share
and this to the hunter’s barrel /: A rare case!:/
Fishing & Angling
- Wrasses – Labrus
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada - 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
Horses & Riding
- “An admirable work on the subject” :
Henry William Herbert, The Horse of America - Johann Elias Ridinger, A Sledge-Horse with Little Bells
- Johann Elias Ridinger, To accustom the horse to flags
- Johann Elias Ridinger, The going back at the Wall
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting …
Cartography
- Belgium – Hannonia Namvricvm Comitatus (Hainaut – Namur)
- In deep coloring as extremely seldom only
and extravagant Russia leather binding
Atlas Rvssicvs … Vastissimvm Imperivm Rvssicvm cum adiacentibvs Regionibvs - Unknown to literature and BL & LoC :
Carte Geographique contenant le Royaume de Siberie,
(subdivided in three provinces: Tobolsk, Jenissejesk, Irkutsk) - Carte des Gouvernements d’Anjou et du Saumurois, de la Touraine, du Poitou, du Pays d’Aunis, Saintonge-Anoumois
- Ireland – Vdrone, Irlandiæ, in Catherlagh Baronia
Views & Local History
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Rolandseck and Drachenfels (Siebengebirge)
- Tyrol in “earliest presentations of pure mountain views”
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Bingen (and Bingerbrück)
- Bernhard Mannfeld, Bacharach (Rhine)
- Reinhardsbrunn
Law / Proclamations
- Royally approved Draft
for a new fee for the ferrymen of the city of Glückstadt
(Sep. 27, 1820) - 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)
- 100 years game law in five succeeding generations :
Hunting Edicts by the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg 1705-1805 - Down to the gardens outside Brunswick + Wolfenbüttel :
Renewed (and enlarged) Decree of Louis Rudolph (1732) by Charles I, Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the poaching and the shooting of high and small game in the forest, hunting districts and preserves, yet now also in the gardens (1773) - The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Banned in Prussia – one edition followed the other :
August Hermann Niemeyer, Textbook for the upper religion classes at scholar schools - Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
- Mann – Klaus W. Jonas, Fifty Years of Thomas Mann Studies
- C. J. B. Karsten, On the Behaviour of Salts
- Subversive Homage on Frederick II of Prussia
published Five Years before the French Revolution
Lettres d’un Souverain Philosophe … à l’éducation d’un jeune Prince. Par le Chevalier ****.
Prints
- Golf – Caddie: “Ave yer finished wi’ the links for to-day, Sir?”
- Theodor Reusche as Jsak Stern
in O. F. Berg’s burlesque “One of our Folks” - Oil consumption in the old days
William Henry Pyne, Lamp-Lighter - Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence
née archduchess of Austria - Amalie Wollrabe & Carl Helmerding as Ninette & Girard
in L. Günther’s burlesque “An Old Dancer”
Portraits
- The original Polly Peachum of Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
Miss Lavinia Fenton, later Duchess of Bolton - Joseph Porter Esqr.
- Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs
- Gvilelmvs Avgvstvs, Regivs Princeps Britanniæ Dvx Cvmberlandiæ
- With exceptionally Beautiful Vienna Provenance Story close to the Immortal Beethoven
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus
“ That would be great! I will send out a check tomorrow for … Followed by a payment in July then one in August. Thank you for your flexability. Kindest Regards ”
(Mr. L. A. F., June 22, 2004)