« Perfection is attained
not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing more to remove. »
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, L’Avion
forms so to speak an isle of delightfully looked at Solander boxes & bindings in red morocco with contents of the utmost quality , rarities grangerized with unique specimen, yet unique specimens paired with themselves and in such a way magnified to
exemplaires enrichis ,
showcase pieces of worldwide singularity
in the truest sense of the word. From time to time also simply just a rarity or things of special beauty + charm then also including contemporary bindings additionally ennobled by an astounding impeccable state. But following the conversation language of the Ridinger time of which so many parallel print captions bear witness, always in that ruby red morocco quoting the best French bibliophile 18th century as crème de la crème of any symbiosis of art , mind , and domestic way seeing oneself, quite possibly also with a not always avoidable touch of grandeur which latter now and then even lets the beholder hold in and forget the world about himself.
In doing so consciously keeping distance of any in the result only imitating repeat of the luxurious leather tooling of that grand epoch, just also of that of the master’s collectors abroad led by France + England and in respect of his oils crowned by the czar’s court. Thus here and today then timely sober confinement to, indeed, overlapping, but otherwise plain gilt-tooled fillets as border of the edges + back-plates. The title-stamping in likewise 23.5 carat, however, frequently with Johann Elias Ridinger as richly designed signature italics following now, of course, former ornament. As reverence for the man + the time. From the œuvre, however, were taken a stag + a horse each as vignettes – « Le dix-huitiême siècle est le siècle de la vignette », E. & J. de Goncourt – adorning, according to contents apart or combined, usually the covers of Solander boxes & bindings. As reverence towards the œuvre. And as provenance mark in addition. Documenting, mostly jointly with “ridinger handlung niemeyer” and “niemeyer fine arts” resp. at inner lower edge, its origin from reliable house , just
from lüder h. niemeyer
Oculi , here they are already coming :
Atlas Russicus
in Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
( юфть / Yuft )
The Milestone 274 Years ago
here in the deep coloring
of all the quality of its age
as exceedingly rare only
Der Venuswagen
(The Chariot of Venus)
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with Original Prints
published as Private Editions of the Gurlitt Press
by Alfred Richard Meyer (Munkepunke)
9 volumes (all published). Berlin 1919/1920
The Copy No. I/LX of the Luxury Edition
for
Doctor Heinrich Stinnes
With Fore-edge Painting
Aglaya
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
The Idiot
Ruby red half morocco master binding
by Roland Meuter
with content-related fore-edge painting
in wood veneer case
A Copy of the Century
Charles Le Brun
The Triumphs or The Battles of Alexander the Great
Hymn on Beethoven
in
Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland
Jean-Christophe
Nouvelle Édition. 4 vols. Paris, Ollendorff, (1921)
Contemporary dark red leather inlaid master bindings
A Gesamtkunstwerk sui generis
The Youthful Photography
is Enthusiastic about Ridinger
Johann Laifle’s
Ridinger-Album of 1865 with 50 albumen prints
presents quite nonchalantly
two rarest additions to the “Most Wondrous Deer”
The Court of Louis XIV in Red Morocco
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.)
The Court of Louis XIV in its Late Period after Le Brun
from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon
Otter Copy
Johann Elias Ridinger’s
“Representation of the Fair Game”
grangerized with a worldwide unicum
Beethoven-Album
on Bonn’s Spectacular Beethoven jubilé
from 10th to 12th August 1845
in Extravagant Binding with Ducal Crown
Gustav Schilling (ed.)
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration
for the Great Deceased, endowed and described by an Association of Artists and Art Lovers
from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Hungary, and Russia
Le Grand Exemplaire
Johann Elias Ridinger’s
“The Fair Game Hounded by the Different Kinds of Hounds”
as a worldwide unique collector’s item
Guild Order in Showcase Copy
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach etc.
Guild Order for the Damask, Twill and Other Weavers
with Charles Frederick’s autograph signature
Toils Copy
as a worldwide unprecedentedly unique Gesamtkunstwerk
a synthesis of the arts
to Johann Elias Ridinger’s Th. 17
“The Hunting Ground surrounded by Flaring Cords”
The Law in everyday Hunting Life
in the Century of Ridinger
Hunting Edicts by the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg 1705-1805
as
Continuously represented will of game-law of a whole century
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II
Haina 1742 – Kassel 1808
“Collection of One Hundred and Seventy Engravings”
as approximately
“Complete Edition of his Works”
