With two rarest additions to the “Most Wondrous Deer”
Johann Laifle, Ridinger-Album.
A Collection of the Finest and Rarest Deer and Roebuck Abnormities
photographed from the Original Engravings
in 50 albumin prints from 1865
in adequate showcase copy of the Red Series

The Beaver

The Four Seasons

Just the hounds :
Smooth and shaggy common Greyhounds
Outline design in the same direction and original size to Th. 397

Still without the 3^rd hare :
Lying in wait for Hares and How They are driven by the Stoberhund
Traced & ruddled preparatory drawing in reverse for Th. 45
from the Dr. Edward Peart Collection

“… the domestic animal of the American Indians so to speak”
An American Bison as he fights off the attacking Bears

For Helbing 1900 the second most valuable sheet of the set
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

First time
The rosy young woman in contrast with the death’s-head :
Saint Mary Magdalen in Penitence in the Desert

Instructive representation of partridge catching :
How the Partridges are captured with the Net

The Beavers have 2. or three Young Ones,
obtain their strength for breeding the other year; also grow ever more