Six Decades
The Fine & Rare

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
• In Hare Hunt 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
• 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
• 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
  Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler

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Bibliophily

• Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
  Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition
• Bibliothèque Raphael Esmerian
• 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 T. Schulz, Under Sail ’round Cape Horn
  A live-illustrated tall ship voyage Hamburg – Nitrate-Chili – Hamburg
• In the bibliophile private binding of E. J. Barron :
  William Somervile, The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers

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The Red Series^©

• Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
  F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot)
• 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
• The Otter Copy with book & inlaid printing plate
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
  in the first edition of the final state
• Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
  Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition
• In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
  Atlas Rvssicvs
  In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only

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Drawings

• Original design for the Flying Leaves :
  Gustav Traub, Carusell Figures and Tight Rope Dancer
• Outline design still deviating from the engraving :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, French par Force Hounds
• Your’s to discover :
  Jean Baptiste Oudry (period), Bear-Baiting
• Splendidly large-sized, splendidly high-graded drawing
  and as such exceedingly precious today :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, The Spring of the Hounds
• When India stopped the West :
  Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
  The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18^th century

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Prints

• “the most qualified of the Mantua engravers” :
  Giorgio Ghisi, The Allegory of Hunting or
  The Hunter Orion carries the Tutelary Goddess Artemis/Diana
• The Lesser Ury of Paris :
  Eugène Béjot, Le Pont Saint Louis, Paris
• François Boucher, Gaigne petit
• State-in-progress unknown to literature
  before completion of the second state
  Hermanus van Brussel, The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water
• For the first time here :
  Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings

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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
• 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
• “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
  Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight
• “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

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XX^th Century

• Dokumentation. (Art and Literature of the 20^th Century)
• Hoi Lebadang, Barques before Cabins in the Jungle
• Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
• Corinth – Karl Schwarz, The Graphic Work of Lovis Corinth
• “Rediscovered American Etcher” :
  Stephen Windsor Parrish, An Old Farm near the Sea (Niles Farm, Cape Ann)

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William Hogarth

• The original version of 1736 :
  The Distrest Poet —
  an homage to Alexander Pope and his Dunciad
• “Who’l Ride?”
  300 Years National Debt Speculation
  Emblematical Print of the South Sea
• Once a Famous Fair in London
  or
  A Leg wanders through Art History
  Southwark Fair
• Need of Reform with the Execution of Sentence :
  Bambridge on Trial for Murder
  by a Committe of the House of Commons
• The Battle of the Pictures

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Johann Elias Ridinger

• The Beaver
• First time
  Undescribed variant of Francis of Assisi of Th. 1288 :
  S. Franciscus Seraphicus
• “not to be looked at without Admiration …”
  Playing Squirrels
  The original printing plate for Th. 478
• Uniquely royal
  Trace of a Chamois
• Represented surprisingly inadequately in old inventories
  Pointers in Action

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Rugendas Artist Dynasty

• Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
  Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game
• “These sets … document the paintings” :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro
• Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
• The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
• Superb aged face
  Johann Georg Bergmüller, Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs

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Joseph Georg Wintter

• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
• Cattle by the crème de la crème :
  Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters
• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
  Georg von Dillis
• A particular sujet :
  Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
• As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
  Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight

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Animals , Hunting , Environment

• “A well-done representation” of the Guanaco
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Camel Deer. Chameau=Cerf.
• Johann Elias Ridinger, The Entrance made at the Deer Park
• The Master’s PERSONAL COPY
  in proofs before corrections & numbering
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game with the respective Tracks and Traces
• 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
• Far rarer than Dürer’s Saint Hubert –
  the equal-sized companion by “the most qualified of the Mantua engravers” :
  Giorgio Ghisi, The Allegory of Hunting or
  The Hunter Orion carries the Tutelary Goddess Artemis/Diana

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Fishing & Angling

• Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
• The Fishing Experience in Canada :
  W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada
• Fishing & Angling in England :
  William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy
• Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
• Nile – Heterotis nilotica. Westafrican Arowana

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Horses & Riding

• The significant 1^st third dedicated to the horse :
  John Sherer, Rural Life
  Described and Illustrated, in the management of Horses …
• Early Swiss contribution to hippological prints :
  Johann Meyer, Cavalry Battles
  Set of the 6 leaves after Heinrich Werdmüller
• Auf anglisiertem Tigerpferd
  Johann Elias Ridinger, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
• “A fine steed in a gallop”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Dark Head. Cap de Maure.
• From the Famous Picture in Cassel called
  “The Pissing Cow”
  Paulus Potter, A Group of Horses

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Cartography

• “One of the greatest Dutch cartographers” :
  Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, Vltraiectinvs, Episcop(atvs)
• With separate local index :
  Daniæ Regnum cum Ducatu Holsatiæ et Slesvici
• Catherine the Great presents Russia’s 3^rd own general map :
  Russia – Ivan Fomic Treskot + Jakob F. Schmidt, Tabula Geographica Generalis Imperii Russici
• Netherlands – Partie Septentrionale des Pays-Bas
• England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus

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Views & Local History

• Kamburg (Thuringia)
• Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Schonburg (Oberwesel)
• Bernhard Mannfeld, From Luschnitz Valley (Bohemia)
• Munich-Nienburg
• Ernberg/Lech – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The Barriere at the Castle of Ehremberg (Ernberg Castle)

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Law / Proclamations

• Dramatic composition &
  masterly physiognomic description of characters :
  William Hogarth, Paul before Felix
  The trial against the apostle Paul
  before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea
• Regulation On The Commissioned Wasser=Schout’s In Hamburg Office and Execution (August 31, 1691)
• Finally hygiene is realized as protection against illness :
  Mandate (by Frederick Augustus of Saxony) Regarding the Restriction of Keeping Dogs and the Prevention of the Danger to be afraid of rabid Dogs (1796)
• Chancellery License by the Royal Schleswig=Holstein Chancellery at Copenhagen in regard of the exemption of the commanders of evers and other freight vessels and their sons from army service (March 7, 1814)
• 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)

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Miscellanea

Books – Prints – Portraits