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The
Otter Copy
with Book + Printing-Plate
of one of the
“ Most Famous Series of the Artist ”
( FAZ Oct. 14, 1995 )
from which still the
“Blue Rider” Franz Marc gained , too
Ridinger, Johann Elias. (Representation of the Fair Game with the respective Traces and Scents, Goings, Get-offs, Turns, Flight, and other Signs … drawn from life) / Abbildung Der Jagtbaren Thiere mit derselben angefügten Fährten und Spuhren, Wandel, Gänge, Absprünge, Wendungen, Widergängen, Flucht, und anderer Zeichen mehr … nach der Natur gezeichnet, samt einer Erklärung darüber). Augsburg, the author (1737-)1740. Large fol. 1 ll. title, preface + description. With pictorially executed large etched title vignette search-hunter with leader and, mixed with engraving, 23 etchings.
Ruby red morocco volume
with 4 imit. ribs, 2 dark green back-plates, gilt two-piece title on the front + Ridinger-stag-vignette on the back cover, gilt lines on both, and in the inner of the front cover below ridinger handlung niemeyer (ridinger gallery niemeyer), all in 23.5 carat, in
homogeneous cassette
with
– traced back here far beyond Thieme-Becker (vol. XXVIII, 1933, p. 308) + Thienemann (1856), p. XXIII, seamlessly directly to the master’s estate itself – the
original printing-plate
for plate 16 “(Scent of the Otter)” in reverse (38.1 x 30.1 cm) as removable solitaire laid into the front cover under polycarbonate glass, inscribed “16. / Joh. El. Ridinger inv. del. sc. et exc. Aug. Vind.”. Below the
gilt hall mark as uniqueness
– Otter-Exemplar –
(– Otter Copy –)
Thienemann + Schwarz (Catalogue of a Ridinger-collection, color plate vol. I, X) 162-185. – Title and plates a little time-marked throughout, but as a whole a very fine copy already before its binding, cassette and – printing-plate in its optically excellently condition. – With the etched numbering as the
first edition of the final state .
Adequately presented within the Red Series of lüder h. niemeyer as of highest grade.
Offer no. 15,273 / price on request
to the extensive detail description
