60 Years
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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
- 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 - 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 - Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884 - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar
Bibliophily
- Cuir ciselé master binding of Georg Hulbe
Visitors’ Book of “Prinzessin Victoria Luise”
June 1905 – December 1906 - 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 - Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - 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 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 Red Series©
- 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 - 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) - Earliest (?) Ridinger Photographicum
Johann Laifle, Ridinger-Album
50 Albumen Prints from the Original Etchings
Drawings
- “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
Franz Heckendorf, Lugano - “The triumphal apotheosis”
François Verdier, Mazæus submits Babylon without a Fight to Alexander the Great - For the illustrated papers :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell - More fascinating by each fresh look
Johann Jacob Ridinger (?), Many Lynxes are the Deer’s Death - Robert Eduard Bary, Wartburg. Part of the Court Yard
Prints
- Count Brühl’s Heron Hawking
Carel van Falens, Prise du Héron - Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight
- David Teniers II, The Armourer
- The market women :
Thomas Landseer, “Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between, Scolds answer foul-mouthed scolds” - With art-historically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheet
Paintings
- With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - 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 - 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
XXth Century
- 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 - “Important Colorist”
Alexander Bertelsson, Boats at Lake Walchen, Bavaria - Rainer Scheithauer, Nude of a Woman 7
- Documented in Drawing, Painting & Lithograph
Franz Heckendorf, Camel Caravan in the High Mountains
William Hogarth
- Scene in a Gaming House
The Rake’s Progress VI - This plate Hogarth later turned into “The Bruiser” :
Gulielmus Hogarth. Half-length self-portrait - Martin Folkes Esq.
- Statuary’s Inn Yard
- Rich’s Triumphant Entry
Johann Elias Ridinger
- The noble game — from old noble estate :
The Deer’s Four Times of Day - Had the two Ridingers sent to him first :
General von Lüttwitz in a letter
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch - In this rich version an almost-unicum :
The Gamba Player based on a detail by Watteau - A Rare Good Sport of the Count of Hohenlohe-Öhringen :
Anno 1720. His Excellency the Count of Ohringen himself
has shot this entirely white fox close to Ohrenthal - Uniquely royal
Trace of a Chamois
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse … - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
- Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
and here ascertained completely supposedly for the First Time :
Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing - 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
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Ten Plates Monkeys
or Animals related to them - 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 - John Heaviside Clark, Bird Catching from below
- Tobias Heinrich Thoman von Hagelstein,
Assault by a Lion on a Fallow-deer pursued by a Bear - “Doebel – the Expert” of the Ridinger Age
Heinrich Wilhelm Döbel, Jäger=Practica (Practice of the Hunter)
Fishing & Angling
- Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- In a fine library copy :
The Sportsman’s Dictionary
with instructions for angling, hunting, and many more - Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Wrasses – Labrus
- Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor
Horses & Riding
- From the Famous Picture in Cassel called
“The Pissing Cow”
Paulus Potter, A Group of Horses - “A noble horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Gray with White Extremities: Gris foncé avec les extremités blanches. - Johann Elias Ridinger, Bay Dun. Isabelle d’Oré.
- “An amazingly fine character”
Johann Elias Ridinger, This especially rare Tiger, whose red color at head, neck, thighs, and belly were not to be described - Satin or silk white horse
Johann Elias Ridinger, Fully White Horse. Cheval Blanc.
Cartography
- Netherlands – Partie Septentrionale des Pays-Bas
- Portugal – Spain – Hispania
After Rodrigo Mendez Sylva - Sphere Map
- 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
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Ehrenfels and the Mouse Tower (near Bingen)
- Blankenese and the Süllberg (near Hamburg)
- Eduard Gaertner, The Royal Theatre with German Cathedral at the Gendarmenmarkt (Berlin)
- Bernhard Mannfeld, From the Theresienklause (near Berchtesgaden)
- God bless you, Bavaria!
Law / Proclamations
- 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) - Customs procedure for the Elector in Cologne :
Franz Egon Count of Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves (1673) - An extraordinarily rare Wedding Gift :
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the procedure of wedding celebrations (1604) - All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium - Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting price harassing of the brewers by the landlords (1745)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - Mann – Peter de Mendelssohn, Der Zauberer
- Mann – Will Schaber, Thomas Mann to his sixtieth Birthday
- Epiktet. Manual of Stoic Moral
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
Prints
- Instrumens de Mathématiques
- The Sifting and Milling of the Rice
- Eugène Louis Lami, Grande fête au Château de Versailles / Une Soirée chez le Duc d’Orléans
- Balber. Indian Barber with his Utensils (2)
- William Henry Pyne, Bishop
Portraits
- Only Portrait of Fielding
Henry Fielding. Ætatis XLVIII - Daniel Lock Esqr
- Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne
- Max Kaus (Self-portrait)
- 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
“ Sir, yes, (the Rubens) is closer to the one in London (recte Dresden), but the one we have is on copper. Thank you for your time. Highest regards, D… A… (and yes America could use a blessing about now) ”
(Mr. D. A., November 4, 2003)