Six Decades
The Fine & Rare

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 Koch Collection is a European matter”
  Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
  Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch
• 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
• Sixty years slave life in Brazil :
  Seven documents covering Dec. 19, 1823 – Sep. 2, 1884
• In Hare Hunt Case with Griffin & Lion
  Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben

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Bibliophily

• Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
  Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
  One hundred gravures
• On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
  John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818
• The Monumental Luxury Edition
  Giuseppe Bossi, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci. Libri quattro
  Leonardo’s Last Supper in all its Facets in contemporary brown half leather
• The case inspired by the 1475 Nuremberg Hare Hunt binding
  Hulbe – Album amicorum of Schoolgirl A. Müller in Aschersleben
• Hans C. Bodmer’s Hesse Collection :
  Hermann Hesse, Watercolors – Manuscripts – Dedication Copies – First Editions – Letters – Documentation

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The Red Series^©

• 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
• Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
  F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot)
• 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
• The Otter Copy with book & inlaid printing plate
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
  in the first edition of the final state

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Drawings

• The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18^th century :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C.
• Pierre Justin Ouvrié, Thun
• Still without the 3^rd hare :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Lying in wait for Hares
  and How They are driven by the Stoberhund
  Traced & ruddled preparatory drawing in reverse from the Dr. Edward Peart Collection
• Outline design still deviating from the engraving :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, French par Force Hounds
• “The rajah approaches, with his two adult sons”
  François Verdier, Sophites welcomes Alexander the Great before the Gates of his Capital

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Prints

• Early Swiss contribution to hippological prints :
  Johann Meyer, Cavalry Battles after Heinrich Werdmüller
• Gabriel Metsu, La Riboteuse Hollandoise
• Of superb rareness in supposedly state II (of IV)
  Nicolaes de Bruyn, Saint Hubert
• Qualified by early provenance :
  Matthäus Merian I, November / Sagittarius
• “The Largest and supposedly finest, too, Ridinger has supplied”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, How the Wild Boar is hunted and dealt the coup de grâce
  The original printing plate in reverse

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Paintings

• Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
  Georg Adam Eger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
• “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
• 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

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XX^th Century

• (Documentation Catalogues on the Art of the 20^th Century)
• “Eminent above all as Graphic Artist”
  Paul-Émile Colin, Sunday on the Marne
• Millet – condensed
  Dirk Koning, The Gleaners
• Anonymous. No Title (Crossroads with Houses)
• The Power of Colors and Nature
  Franz Heckendorf, Landscape on Tenerife

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William Hogarth

• Only Most Authentic Portrait of Frederick the Great!
  The Countess’ Morning Levée
  Marriage à la Mode IV
• The silver age :
  Quarrels with the Jew Protector
  A Harlot’s Progress II
• The House of Commons
  in Sir Robert Walpole’s Administration
• The Industrious Prentice
  performing the Duty of a Christian
  Industry & Idleness II
• The Idle ‘Prentice Executed at Tyburn
  Industry & Idleness XI

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Johann Elias Ridinger

• Utterly undescribed 3^rd version
  as larger-sized variant to Th.-St. 1416
  St. Francis of Paula, founder of the “Minims”
• Stood Model for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
  Trace of a Marten / Trace of the Weasel
• The as constructive as painterly sheet
  How the Roes are catched in Nets
• A Lion of Light Color. Un Lion d’une couleur claire
• The Stag caught in the Turn-iron

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Rugendas Artist Dynasty

• He discovered Brazil
  Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
  In the original Solander box as furnished only initially
• Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
• 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
• “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
  Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt

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Joseph Georg Wintter

• Deer Hunt in Munich Landscape
  Joseph Georg Wintter, The Herd of Deer in Full Flight over the Fence
• Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
• As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
  Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight
• 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

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Animals , Hunting , Environment

• “There is no peace in life” :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, Wild Ducks stalked by Wildcats and Foxes
• Dean Wolstenholme I, Drawing the Covert
• Johann Elias Ridinger, Ten Plates Monkeys
  or Animals related to them
• Johann Elias Ridinger, The Great Black Bear. L’ours grand et noir
• 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

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Fishing & Angling

• Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
• Fishing & Angling in England :
  William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy
• Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
• Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
• Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger

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Horses & Riding

• “A true monster”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, A Horse of all Faults. Lés defauts des Parties exterieures du Cheval.
• Cham, Henri IV
• The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough
• “These sets … document the paintings” :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I
  Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693-1705
  in chiaroscuro by Johann Christian Rugendas
• Johann Elias Ridinger, A Sledge-Horse with Little Bells

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Cartography

• Carte des Gouvernements du Berri
• The Bordelais :
  Carte du Gouvernement de Guyenne et Gascogne
  avec celui de Béarn et Basse Navarre
• Representative Colored Wall Map
  on the Landing of Charles III in Spain :
  Gerard Valk, Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliæ
• Italy – Central + Northern Italy – L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats
• “One of the greatest Dutch cartographers” :
  Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, Vltraiectinvs, Episcop(atvs)

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Views & Local History

• Compagnie Française de Tabacs … à la Havana
• Bernhard Mannfeld, Melk on the Danube
• Hemsendorf
• “The splendid tabernacle of St. James’s Church”
  Tabernacle in St James’s Church, Louvain
• Louis Hamilton, Canada. (Landscape and Folk Life)

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Law / Proclamations

• License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
  in regard of the examination for the Elbe skipper license (Sep. 9, 1823)
• All about water :
  Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium
• The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
  L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
• The Military Boots Litigation in Hamburg :
  Promemoria of the leather manufacture C. W. Müller & Co. in Hamburg
• Freedom of Service 400 Years Ago :
  The Shipwrights Order (August 29, 1631)

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Miscellanea

Books – Prints – Portraits

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(Herr D. B., 9. Oktober 2006)