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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
- Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884 - 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 Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - Imperial Thanks
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials
Bibliophily
- 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 - Hans C. Bodmer’s Hesse Collection :
Hermann Hesse, Watercolors – Manuscripts – Dedication Copies – First Editions – Letters – Documentation - 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 - In ruby morocco and here for the first time :
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - 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
The Red Series©
- In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century - In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - Le Grand Exemplaire
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Fair Game hunted by the different kinds of hounds
With the original printing plate of the title as solitaire on the board
and enclosed original preparatory drawing in reverse for The Lynx - Heinrich Stinnes’ obligatory No. I
in the ruby red morocco of the luxury edition
The Venuswagen
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with Original Prints
9 volumes (all published)
Drawings
- Chief washed drawing from the Master’s early days :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To catch the Wolf in the Pit with the Sheep - From “the Famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings”
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen - Expressively shining South :
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Landscape with Minaret - Determined by the softness of its brush technique :
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Hunting Luck - “ … as one doesn’t find them soon fuller of character ”
August Schleich, Troop of Boars
Prints
- Complete as in individual sheets “very/exceedingly” rare of old
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Fountains
in the copy Counts Faber-Castell - Jan van Goyen, The Capuchin Monastery at the Canal
- First time
Before the background of
what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
Johann Elias Ridinger, In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum - Peter Halm, View at Mayence
- Anyhow — 13 at a blow :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Presentation of both Roman as Grecian War Folks
Paintings
- “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - 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 - “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
XXth Century
- Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice - Special impression in brown on Japanese vellum :
Oskar Kokoschka, Pope Leo X after Raffael’s portrait of 1518 - “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
Franz Heckendorf, Lugano - “Abstract record in powerful colorfulness”
Alfred Eichhorn, Archipelago (Formentera) - Dokumentation. (Art and Literature of the 20th Century)
William Hogarth
- The Farmer’s Return
Frontispiece to Garrick’s comedy - James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont
- Divine Service in the High Church :
Come unto me all – I will give you rest - “… painted with the greatest pleasure”
Captain Thomas Coram - France
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Detailed by numbers
Compulsory Trap before the Earth of a Badger - “The most beautiful horse he had ever laid eyes upon”
The Crane at Oldenburg in East Frisia
Cheval d’Ostfriesland nomé la Grüe
Favorite horse of Count Anthony Günther of Oldenburg - The Stags from Lake Walenstadt in Switzerland :
The Pursued Stags - Full capriole straight ahead
- First time
Undescribed variant of Francis of Assisi of Th. 1288 :
S. Franciscus Seraphicus
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- 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 - Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
Samuel Howitt, A Trap to Shoot the Bear - Johann Elias Ridinger, Malicious Flattery
is finally disclosed and defeated - To today’s gamekeepers & huntsmen of his mind
Hermann Löns — Hunting Paths - Johann Elias Ridinger, Stately 20-points Stag in Rutting Season
- For Helbing 1900 the second most valuable sheet of the set
Martin Elias Ridinger, 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
Fishing & Angling
- In a fine library copy :
The Sportsman’s Dictionary
with instructions for angling, hunting, and many more - Wrasses – Labrus
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
Horses & Riding
- Baron von Eisenberg, Le Joli
- Circular … Announcing a Composed Work on Horse-breeding
- Belonging to the
“drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Accompanies the Mother at Work - “Fine strong horse”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Mouse-colored Black. Noir mal teint. - Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
Watercolor over pen and ink
Cartography
- Peloponnesus hodie Morea
- “One of the greatest Dutch cartographers” :
Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, Vltraiectinvs, Episcop(atvs) - Dominum Venetum
com adjacentibus Mediolan, Mantuano etc. - Languedoc & Roussillon – the region of good wine :
Carte des Gouvernements Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussillon,
avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guyenne - With large detail map of Brazil with the 14 Captaincies & local index :
Portugalliæ et Algabriæ Regna cum Mappa Brasiliæ Regnum in America Meredionali
Views & Local History
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Andernach
- Eugène Louis Lami, Grande fête au Château de Versailles
- Kösen
- The Rothenburg (Thuringia) from the South-West Side
- Louis François Cassas, Village du Bailan
Law / Proclamations
- All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium - Variant in the direction of the painting :
William Hogarth, And as he reasoned of righteousness,
temperance, and Judgment to come, Felix trembled
The trial against the apostle Paul
before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea
A dramatic composition &
masterly physiognomic description of characters - The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - House Purchase of furrier Carl Siegmund Brix in Lüchow and its decades-long financing by short-term money
- Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras in Tribulation
The knight & Ralpho in stocks
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Friedrich Löhmann, Tables of the Currency Calculation …
- Mann – Georg Lukacs, Thomas Mann
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- Mann – Die Neue Rundschau
Prints
- Planting of the Young Rice
- Wilhelm Kaiser as Cardinal Richelieu
in A. E. Brachvogel’s drama “Mondecaus” - Tapis de Turquie (Oriental Tapestry Knotting)
- Distinguished Indian Woman. XVth Century
- Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as the nurse of Julia
in Shakespeare’s drama “Romeo and Julia”
Portraits
- With exceptionally Beautiful Vienna Provenance Story close to the Immortal Beethoven
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - Joseph Porter Esqr.
- Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
- “The Large Portrait of Anna Buirette of Oehlefeldt”
Frav Anna Elisabetha geborn - v(nd) vermæhlte Bvirette von Oehlefeldt - Catharine of Braganza
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