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
- 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 - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - In a Remarkable Case with Griffin & Lion
Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar
Bibliophily
- First edition of the esteemed Ostertag edition
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Von dem Leben und den Thaten Alexanders des Großen
mit Johann Freinsheims Ergänzungen - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - First and only edition in one volume,
dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Hans C. Bodmer :
Hermann Hesse, Diesseits – Kleine Welt – Fabulierbuch - Hans C. Bodmer’s Hesse Collection :
Hermann Hesse, Watercolors – Manuscripts – Dedication Copies – First Editions – Letters – Documentation
The Red Series©
- In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century - 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 - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - 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
- “Keeps the Advancing Hounds in Mighty Respect”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Lynx
Pen-and-ink in brown with brown wash over traces of graphite - Delicate Rococo drawing :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To Whistle the Roe! - Outline design still deviating from the engraving :
Johann Elias Ridinger, French par Force Hounds - For the illustrated papers :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell - 3 x illustrious prior possession
Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389
Prints
- A Pig and A Pullet :
Richard Newton, Which Way Shall I Turn Me - In this rich version an almost-unicum :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Gamba Player based on a detail by Watteau - No frills fantastic main sheet in the 2nd state of the 1st version :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Omnia Mihi Subdita / The Rule of Death - Paul Decker I, Design of a Ceiling
- One will envy you :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Foolish Jealousy after Boucher’s “Les amours pastorales”
Paintings
- 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 - “They even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt - “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
XXth Century
- Rainer Scheithauer, Nude of a Woman 7
- The Colors of the Sixties :
Modern Artist’s Color Prints - Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice - The Lesser Uri of Paris :
Eugène Béjot, Le Pont Saint Louis, Paris - Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen
William Hogarth
- “A Masterpiece of Physiognomic Character Portrayal”
Simon Lord Lovat - The Lottery
- Rakewell marries an Old Maid
The Rake’s Progress V - “To His Majesty the King of Prussia”
A Representation of the March of the Guards
towards Scotland, in the Year 1745 - The Killing of the Earl Squanderfield
Marriage à la Mode V
Johann Elias Ridinger
- The Entrance made at the Deer Park
- Full capriole straight ahead
- In the hitherto unknown second state :
Pastor bonus - Malicious Flattery
is finally disclosed and defeated - “Because the bear is a very strong wild … animal”
The Catching of the Bears
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Superb aged face
Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - Tangible speed of movements hard to render
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings” - 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
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags - “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 - 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
- As rare as instructive and charming :
Charles Aubry, Chasses Anciennes
d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XVe Siècles - A particular sujet :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake - For the first time here :
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II,
Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - Dramatic & rare
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Elevated Shooting Cabin at a Bear Garden - Of greatest rarity :
Eugen Krüger, Snipe Hunt
Fishing & Angling
- Wrasses – Labrus
- Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
- Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
- The Fisherman representing the Water
David Teniers II, The Four Elements in Large Figures
Horses & Riding
- Circular … Announcing a Composed Work on Horse-breeding
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Pirouette right on a circle
of the length of the horse - Baron von Eisenberg, Le Hardi
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Dificile
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Grand
Cartography
- England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
- With separate local index :
Daniæ Regnum cum Ducatu Holsatiæ et Slesvici - In deep coloring as extremely seldom only
and extravagant Russia leather binding
Atlas Rvssicvs … Vastissimvm Imperivm Rvssicvm cum adiacentibvs Regionibvs - Worked one year after publication of Don Quixote :
Castile – Castiliæ Veteris et novæ Descriptio - Peloponnesus hodie Morea
Views & Local History
- Paris – Le Louvre et la Seine. Vue prise du Pont-neuf
- Edward Beyer, Bullard Rock on the New River (Eggleston Palisades, Virginia)
- James Duffield Harding, St. Goar on the Rhine
- The Petersberg near Halle/Saale
- “The splendid tabernacle of St. James’s Church”
Tabernacle in St James’s Church, Louvain
Law / Proclamations
- “Capable of any wickedness” :
William Hogarth, Sarah Malcolm, three days before her hanging - License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
lifting the general embargo on the ships and crafts
along the Elbe coast and Western coast
(March 29, 1813) - The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - 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) - Need of reform with the execution of sentence :
William Hogarth, Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
- C. J. B. Karsten, On the Behaviour of Salts
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - Friedrich Löhmann, Tables of the Currency Calculation …
- Christianus Reineccius, Janua Hebrææ linguæ veteris Testamenti & Grammatica Hebræo-Chaldaica
Prints
- A. Smith, Examination of a Village School
- Annibale Carracci, Merciaro di Tele (Haberdasher)
- Quillenbois, Revue de l’année (1845)
- Very rare communal representation
William Henry Pyne, Watering-Cart - Jean-Baptiste Bénard, La Batteuse de Beurre
Portraits
- Mary of Modena, Duchess of York
- “The Large Portrait of Anna Buirette of Oehlefeldt”
Frav Anna Elisabetha geborn - v(nd) vermæhlte Bvirette von Oehlefeldt - 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 - Adolphvs Fridericvs Hæres Norvegiæ Dux Holsatiæ, Slesvici, & Episc. Lvbecensis Sveciæ Regis declaratvs Svccessor
„ … zugleich bedanke ich mich für alles, was Sie im alten Jahr für mich getan haben. Mit vielen Grüßen Ihr … “
(Herr W. W., 20. Dezember 2008)