55 Years
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily
Drawings · Prints · 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
Miscellania: 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 - 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 - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials
Honoré de Balzac. Les Paysans. Scènes
de la vie de campagne., With 50 etchings
by Georges Jeanniot
Bibliophily
- 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 - 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 - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - 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 - In May von Weinberg’s armorial binding by Ernst Ludwig
Honoré de Balzac. Les Paysans. Scènes de la vie de campagne.
With 50 etchings by Georges Jeanniot
Siegwald Johannes Dahl
Broken down and now recognized by the cavalryman as his former horse
Drawings
- 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 - Brilliant, graphically utterly executed study
of incredible dynamics
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - “ … as one doesn’t find them soon fuller of character ”
August Schleich, Troop of Boars - Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Broken down and now recognized by the cavalryman as his former horse
- Precious also the material – vellum :
Le Brun – Lion Hunt. King-size pen and brown ink
Thomas Landseer
“I hope I dont intrude”
Prints
- “… he however opened the way
of the art of engraving in the large scale”
Cornelis Cort, St. Hubert - Jean Baptiste Le Prince, Le Remouleur (The Knife-Grinder)
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- Paul Pry :
Thomas Landseer, “I hope I dont intrude” - Jan van Huchtenburgh, A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen
W. Wolfgang Breuer
Gondolas before patrician house in Venice
XXth Century
- NIGHTLY METROPOLIS —
here you bathe in it
Franz Heckendorf, Fascination Sea of Light Metropolis – Munich - Rico Blass, Nocturne
- Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
- Dieter Hiesserer, Abstract Sexual Intercourse
- Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice
Apprehended by a Magistrate
A Harlot’s Progress III
William Hogarth
- Vanity raising value :
The Time Smoking a Picture
(As Statues moulder into Worth) - The Idle ‘Prentice Executed at Tyburn
Industry & Idleness XI - Threepenny opening night :
The Beggars Opera
in the sold-out house - Resort in bad times :
Consultation of Physicians – Arms of the Undertakers - Apprehended by a Magistrate
A Harlot’s Progress III
The Cythera Lady (“Impudent but yet
Gallant”)
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Boars of Five Years carry their tusks one Finger long and more which are very sharp
- The founder of the “Minims”
S. Franc. de Pavla Fvnd. Ord. Minimor - One of the finest, most elegant sujets :
Coursing a Hare. Chasseur aux levrieres - On the islands of love :
The Cythera Lady (“Impudent but yet Gallant”) - Trace of a Beaver
Johann Moritz Rugendas
Horses from the Royal Bavarian Stables
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - 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 - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - Here with the title text not known to literature :
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Horses from the Royal Bavarian Stables
Joseph Georg Wintter
The Three Dogs and the Bone
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters - Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Of greatest rarity :
Eugen Krüger, Wood Grouse Courting (Morning.) - As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - “His Antlers are quite special … Like an Eagle’s Wings”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Elk or Moose obtains its Height in its Sixth Year only,
usually they have two, but also only one calf - Johann Elias Ridinger, Malicious Flattery
is finally disclosed and defeated - 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!:/
William Barker Daniel
Rural Sports in a fine library copy
Fishing & Angling
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- 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 - Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana
- Fishing & Angling in England :
William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy - Angling is the family’s pleasure
for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolzano (Lake Bolsena)
Johann Elias Ridinger
To make the horse shoot-proof
Horses & Riding
- Six-in-hand carriage horses for the colleague in Treves :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature - Decidedly fine copy :
Georg Simon Winter (von Adlersflügel), Well-experienced Horse Physician - Johann Elias Ridinger, Dapple Gray. Gris Pomelé.
- “Fine horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Gray. Gris sale. - Johann Elias Ridinger, To make the horse shoot-proof
Burgundy – Carte des Gouvernements de Bourgogne,
de Franche Comté et de Lyonnois
Cartography
- England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
- L’Empire de Russie
- Carte des Gouvernements de l’Isle de France
et de celui de l’Orleanois - Nova et exactissima totius Italiæ, Sardiniæ et Corsicæ
- Just one word: “Chablys” :
Burgundy – Carte des Gouvernements de Bourgogne,
de Franche Comté et de Lyonnois
Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Stolzenfels
Views & Local History
- The Hudson near Newburg
- Edward Beyer, Bullard Rock on the New River (Eggleston Palisades, Virginia)
- “Finest Photo Covering”
The Great Dyke Breach in the St. Peter’s Flood March 5, 1651
Pieter Nolpe, Het Door Breecken vande St. Anthonis Dyck buyten Amsterdam - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Palace and Ruin Sayn
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Stolzenfels
Regulation
in regard of Hamburg’s Trade and Shipping,
during the War (September 18, 1778)
Law / Proclamations
- Freedom of Service 400 Years Ago :
The Shipwrights Order (August 29, 1631) - All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium - Of Seizures & Legal Procedures
- 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) - 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)
Miscellania
Books – Prints – Portraits
Berlin – Günter Neumann – “(The
Islander doesn’t lose the patience)”
Books
- C. J. B. Karsten, On the Behaviour of Salts
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – Günter Neumann – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the patience)” - Prussia – (H. G. V. R. Count of Mirabeau), Atlas de la Monarchie Prussienne
- Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
Prints
- Johann Adam Stockmann, The Landscapes with the Peasants
- Amalie Wollrabe & Carl Helmerding as Ninette & Girard
in L. Günther’s burlesque “An Old Dancer” - Jean Baptiste Le Prince, La diseuse de bonne Avanture (The Fortune-Teller)
- Gabriel Spitzel, M. Johann Christoph Thenn of Augsburg
Protestant Parson at St. Ulric - Pu-Quà, A Woman embroidering
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
Portraits
- Max Kaus (Self-portrait)
- Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- Johann Noa Buirette von Oehlefeld auf Wilhelmsdorff in Nürnberg
- John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
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