$2,460
Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767) Fifteen Hunt Prints, c. 1750. Landscape format folio album containing Ridinger's engravings mounted on linen with other later images added to the versos, all plates concern the hunt, deer in the wild, and other wild quadrupeds, including mountain goats, weasels, and beavers; plates are thumbed, foxed, many with remnants of red sealing wax, mostly in the blank margins, brown spotting; bound in tattered half leather and paper boards, most of the covering material perished, 17 x 13 3/4 in. Ridinger is best known for his deft renderings of animals, and especially the hunt.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16