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Ridinger, Johann Elias. (Representation of the Fair Game with their respective Traces and Scents, Goings, Get-Offs, Turns, Flight, and other Signs … drawn from nature) / Abbildung der Jagtbaren Thiere mit derselben angefügten Fährten und Spuren, Wandel, Gänge, Absprünge, Wendungen, Widergängen, Flucht und anderer Zeichen mehr. Set of preparatory drawings in brush, chalk and graphite of 1737/39. Full-Size Facsimile Edition in four colours. Ed. by Karl Sälzle. 1980. Large fol. 77 pp., 1 l. incl. plts. With

32  plates  along  with  the  father’s  portrait  in  mezzotint

by Johann Jacob Ridinger of 1767 + title of the work’s printed edition of 1740 ( ask for two unequalled copies of that ). Orig. marbled h. vellum with vellum-corners in uniform h. cloth slipcase.

(Thienemann p. 275, i.) – Text (in German) in red + black. – Published for the first time. – Splendid edition of a complete set of preparatory drawings in reverse (except for the title-vignette) to the etched/engraved 23-sheet set Th. 162-185 along with its original text. Depicted are 26 animals in their grandiose environment and their partly more detailed traces etc. in original size excepting the reduced ones of lion + tiger (recte “maybe a jaguar”, Th.) as “not to be found in our forests”. Three final plates with the strongly reduced tracks along the lines of a modern summary. The subfields for the traces in their original sizes under the respective pictorial sceneries partly blanc or uncompletely executed and worked only on separate sheets. So in 11 cases here collected on 7 plates.

This edition of the preparatory drawings documents at the same time the

variants  +  errors

the knowledge of which along with a additionally optical pleasure qualifies the set as a very important supplementation to the definitive work.

Pictorial variants relates to the crown-stag Th. 166 + to the otter Th. 178 (the latter “brought into a unfavourable other position” in the etching). In the drawings still “strongly misdrawn” roebuck, lynx and beaver (Th. 171, 172, 177), but the wildcat (Th. 180) more naturally depicted in the drawing strongly changed then in the copper. More carefully executed there, however, the mountains which are outlined only on the drawing.

But of the really highest importance the drawings of hare (Th. 175) and badger (Th. 179). The former with its confounded designations of two scents unseen by Ridinger even at the earliest impressions and healed then for the present only provisionally in its – so the opinion here – own copy now here in stock. The latter concerns the badger’s leg twice incorrectly designated as “Fus” (foot). This mistake escaped Ridinger himself even in the copy here and described by us for the first time. See hereto issue 18 of the publications of the ridinger gallery.

So unknown-interesting Ridinger could be. And

so  splendidly  beautiful  +  instructive  this  representative first  edition

of the drawings – formerly priced by the publisher with moderate 700 German marks = 358 EUR – to one of the naturally most important sets.
Offer no. 28,595 / EUR  270. / export price EUR  257. (c. US$ 361.) + shipping