60 Years
The Fine & Rare
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»das Auge des Sammlers kostbarer Dinge«
Schußfrei vor Ort
Die Hirsche vom Starnberger See
Beethoven – Die Seyfried Papiere
Unikate Ulm-Provenienzen
ridinger hunt par force
Saint Hubert
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
- Imperial Thanks
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - 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 - 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 - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch
Bibliophily
- The Édition de Luxe in only 55 autographed copies :
Romain Rolland, Beethoven the Creator. The Great Creative Epochs
I: From the Eroica to the Appassionata - Author – Printer – Imprint not cracked in 235 Years
Lettres d’un Souverain Philosophe … à l’éducation d’un jeune Prince. Par le Chevalier ****.
A Subversive Homage on Frederick II of Prussia - The Heinrich Stinnes Copy
No. I/XL of the Luxury Edition in ruby red morocco
The Venuswagen
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with 78 Original Prints
9 volumes (all published) - In the bibliophile private binding of E. J. Barron :
William Somervile, The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers - 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©
- 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 - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - The Otter Copy with book & inlaid printing plate
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
in the first edition of the final state - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - Bonn’s spectacular Beethoven jubilé 175 Years Ago
Gustav Schilling (ed.), BEETHOVEN-ALBUM.
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased
in extravagant binding with ducal crown
Drawings
- For the illustrated papers :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell - “The rajah approaches, with his two adult sons”
François Verdier, Sophites welcomes Alexander the Great before the Gates of his Capital - Rare draughtsman of the Golden Century
Daniel Vertangen, Bacchanal
Fabulous vinousness on vellum - Finest of the Finest :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Spring-Gun on a Bear - “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
Prints
- Deluxe impressions on China before the letter
Hans Holbein II, Self-portrait and that of his Wife
Bartolozzi’s color stipple pendants of the original folio edition - “Eminent above all as Graphic Artist”
Paul-Émile Colin, Sunday on the Marne - “One of the most distinguished Fathers of the Church”
and one of the greatest sons of Treves :
Alessandro Marchesini, S. Ambrose - When plebeians rise to power :
Thomas Landseer, “But man, proud man, dressed in a little brief” - Paul Bril, Rocky Coastal Landscape
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 - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt - 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 - “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus, Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg
XXth Century
- Dieter Hiesserer, Abstract Sexual Intercourse
- The Great Forgotten One of Munich Art Nouveau
Carl Strathmann, Ibycus
The ‘Sketch’ to the 1895 Oil burnt in 1942 as ‘Finished’ Work of Art - Hoi Lebadang, Barques in the Jungle
- “Belongs to the Most Important Representatives of European Symbolism”
Rudolf Jettmar, Canyon - Gert Biese, Two Resting Woman
William Hogarth
- The Idle ‘Prentice
at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service
Industry & Idleness III - Frontispiece to (Dr. Brook) Taylor’s Perspective
- The Man of Taste
- The Battle of the Pictures
- O the Roast Beef of Old England or The Gate of Calais
Johann Elias Ridinger
- First scientific representation of the rhinoceros
RHINOCEROS. Nasehorn. Rhinocerot
Drawn by Ridinger “from life” in Augsburg 1748 - Anyhow — 13 at a blow :
Presentation of both Roman as Grecian War Folks - For Helbing 1900 the second most valuable sheet of the set
In the Lake Ammergau in Bavaria,
so a huntsman told me likewise, that as he aimed at a wild (whooper?) swan …
also an especially big (white-tailed) eagle flew so to speak into the shot - “Monkeys always fascinated artists” :
Ten Plates Monkeys or Animals related to them - The Jerome “Schwarz 1549”
unmasked as doubtful fellow :
S. Jerome as Hermit with hour-glass + death’s-head,
and with the lion of course
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Superb aged face
Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs - Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting …
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- 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 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
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Still deviating from the engraving :
Johann Elias Ridinger, French par Force Hounds
Outline design in original size to Th. 396 - Johann Elias Ridinger, Cautious Prudence overcomes Malice!
- “Look reader a deer duel where both remain on the spot”
Ridinger, Johann Elias. These 2. Stags one of 14. the other of 12. points have been found the 18th Novembrs. 1756. by the Bergstrasse Hesse=Darmstadt territory … firmly entangled with the antlers.
The original printing plate for Th. 319 - Ridingeriana rarity of degree
Charles Frederick Prince of HohenzollernSigmaringen shoots this Stag Of odd 18 points
Antlers design to Th. 353 sent by the princely court to the Ridingers for rendering in copper - Three princely hunted stags :
Johann Elias Ridinger, In 1728 His Princely Highness Carl Alexander Duke of Wurttemberg
shot this stag No. 1. in a hunt near Jagodin in the kingdom of Serbia
Fishing & Angling
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- So strange :
William Hogarth, Shrimps! The crab-girl - In a fine contemporary calf binding by Hersant
P(etrus) Fisher, The Angler’s Souvenir with 31 engraved plates - Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor
Horses & Riding
- “A delicate horse of rare color”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dun Colored. Pies Auber. - Baron von Eisenberg, Le Joli
- “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer - Johann Elias Ridinger, Bay Dun. Isabelle d’Oré.
- “The sable chestnuts … are far rarer”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Sable Chestnut. Alzan de Zibeline.
Cartography
- Sphere Map
- 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
- Germany – Austria – BeNeLux – France :
Matthäus Albrecht + Georg Friedrich Lotter
Carte Geographique Representant le Cours entier du RHIN ,
de la MOSELLE / de la MEUSE et de l’ESCAUT - Catherine the Great presents Russia’s 3rd own general map :
Russia – Ivan Fomic Treskot + Jakob F. Schmidt, Tabula Geographica Generalis Imperii Russici
Views & Local History
- The Lobdaburg (Thuringia)
- Hudson Highlands – Near Forts Clinton & Montgomery
- Frankenhausen (Thuringia) from the West Side
- Épreuve de Luxe on silk :
Utrecht – Jan Mauritz Quinkhard, Albertus Voget - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, St. Goar and Rheinfels Castle
Law / Proclamations
- The Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg :
Drinking Beer furthers your Health!
Nourishing Beer Statutes from 1723-1764 - 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) - 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) - All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium - Regulation On The Commissioned Wasser=Schout’s In Hamburg Office and Execution (August 31, 1691)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- 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 ****. - 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder
- Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
Prints
- William Henry Pyne, Beadle of the Church
- John Sartain, The Contrast
- The Sifting and Milling of the Rice
- Mustard – Charles François Hutin, La Marchande de Moutarde Allemande
- Golf – Caddie: “Ave yer finished wi’ the links for to-day, Sir?”
Portraits
- In its colors just as beautiful as rich portrait
Ferdinand Magellanus - With exceptionally Beautiful Vienna Provenance Story close to the Immortal Beethoven
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - “Painter of the Galleys and Big Ships”
Andreas van Ertvelt. Pictor Triremivm Navivmqve Maiorvm Antverpiae - Gulielmus Hogarth
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
„ Gerne kaufe ich den (1573er) Band … “ & „ Das Buch ist angekommen – wunderschön ! “
(Mr. M. R., June 9 & July 1, 2016 resp.)