60 Years
The Fine & Rare
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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
- The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - 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 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 - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - 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
Bibliophily
- Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition - Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - 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 - 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 - 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
The Red Series©
- In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - 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 - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition
Drawings
- Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies
- Looked over the Artist’s Shoulder :
Wartburg – Illustration + 2 illustration designs - Made up for superior presentation :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To Stalk the Stag with the Hollow Pot - Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolles Collection :
Johann Elias Ridinger, An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below - “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
Franz Heckendorf, Lugano
Prints
- Only copy traced here since Thienemann (1856) :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Vos estis Lux Mundi after two motifs of Rubens - Right out of Watteau’s Coquettes and Italian Comedy :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Lady with the Black Mask - Annibale Carracci, Scopettaro (Brush Seller)
- Rare + much wanted :
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La Chasse - Gaetano Gherardo Zompini, The Coal Carriers
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 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 - “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
- Hoi Lebadang, Barques en Orient
- The Colors of the Sixties :
Modern Artist’s Color Prints - (Documentation Catalogues on the Art of the 20th Century)
- André Rouveyre, Head
- “Eminent above all as Graphic Artist”
Paul-Émile Colin, Sunday on the Marne
William Hogarth
- Masquerades and Operas, Burlington-gate
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
- Four Heads from the Cartoons at Hampton Court
- The Industrious ‘Prentice Lord Mayor of London
Industry & Idleness XII - The chief Important Departure of the Knight to Great Actions
Sr. Hudibras his passing worth
The manner how he sally’d forth
Hudibras II
Johann Elias Ridinger
- In this rich version an almost-unicum :
The Gamba Player based on a detail by Watteau - Still deviating from the engraving :
French par Force Hounds
Outline design in original size of three of the hounds to Th. 396 - “He who suppresses weaker ones should not rejoice too much”
The poor hare falls to the sun-shy owl’s share
and this to the hunter’s barrel /: A rare case!:/ - First time
Before the background of
what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum - The “Snub-Eared Main Boar” and His Packer
without doubt one of the master’s loveliest sujets
This Snub=Eared Main Boar with cropped Tail which on the left side had the large Tusk broken off and on the right the Tusks grown crosswise …
The original printing plate for Th. 300
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- Superb aged face
Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs - 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 … - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- “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 - Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence - Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Carl Ruthart, A Stag which is Attacked by two Leopards
- “An own species which lives in the Alps”
Johann Elias Ridinger, White Hare. Lievre blanc - The case inspired by the 1475 Nuremberg Hare Hunt binding
Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben - Annalen der Forst- und Jagd-Wissenschaft
Ed. by Gatterer and Laurop - As rare as instructive and charming :
Charles Aubry, Chasses Anciennes
d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XVe Siècles
Fishing & Angling
- Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
- Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
- Wrasses – Labrus
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada
Horses & Riding
- “Very impatient and obstinate horses”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Chestnut. Alzan brulé. - The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - The parade of the winners :
Vainqueurs des Steeple Chases de 1868
Review of the 8 winners of the 1868s steeplechases - The plenty of horses amidst the par force hunt :
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La chasse au cerf in 24 engravings - Stud-farm before painterly Harz Mountains scenery :
Karl Dietrich Pirscher, View of the Ducal Brunswick Stud-Farm Harzburg
Cartography
- L’Empire de Russie
- Netherlands – Partie Septentrionale des Pays-Bas
- Dominum Venetum
com adjacentibus Mediolan, Mantuano etc. - Worked one year after publication of Don Quixote :
Castile – Castiliæ Veteris et novæ Descriptio - Belgium – Hannonia Namvricvm Comitatus (Hainaut – Namur)
Views & Local History
- Nauvoo (Mississippi)
- Hemsendorf
- Home of the Ghent Altarpiece :
The Choir of St Bavon’s at Ghent - The Palace in Schwerin
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, The Lorelei Rock
Law / Proclamations
- Since the success not corresponded to the result hoped for :
Edict (by Frederick William of Prussia) Regarding the Becoming Rabid of Dogs (1797) - Of best Ridinger Time & Place :
Decree of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria forbidding the import of foreign printing colors (1751) - Interesting sujet of the execution of sentence
William Hogarth, Hudibras, Triumphant
The knight leading the fiddler to the stocks - Circular, Announcing a composed work on horse-breeding (1807)
- Proclamation by Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg,
subjecting the horses’ glanders to the duty of notification (1771)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- 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 ****. - Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
- German Wedding Regulations from 1604
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the Procedure of Wedding Celebrations - Jean Hellot, L’Art de la Teinture
- C. J. B. Karsten, On the Behaviour of Salts
Prints
- In quite singular technique :
David Teniers II, The Scissors-Grinder - Carl Porth as Pope Gregory V
in Julius Leopold Klein’s drama “Maria” - Jean Baptiste Le Prince, La diseuse de bonne Avanture (The Fortune-Teller)
- German Nobleman & Noblewoman
Early XVIth Century - Working on China’s rise :
Colored Presentations of Professions after Pu-Quà, Cantòn
Portraits
- 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
- James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont
- Antoine Watteau
- Daniel Lock Esqr
- John Pine
„ (D)ie Sendung (Hogarth / Marriage à-la-Mode) ist gestern wohlbehalten hier eingetroffen. Ist alles bestens, und ich danke Ihnen nochmals herzlich für die Beantwortung meiner Fragen und prompte Lieferung … Viele Grüße … “
(Herr C. K., 3. November 2013)