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Die menschliche Sterblichkeit unter dem Titel Todten-Tanz, in LXI. Original-Kupfern

By Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689, Meyer, Rudolf Theodor, 1605-1638, Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689. Sterbensspiegel. Published 1759. Free to read and download from Internet Archive.

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First published Zürich, 1650, under title: Sterbensspiegel. Brunet reports an incomplete ed. of 52 plates published Augsburg, 1704 Includes added etched title from ed. of 1650 and sixty-one full-page text etchings begun by Rudolf Meyer and completed by his brother Conrad. The text etchings are numbered 1-57, with omissions and repeats. They are printed on rectos, and retain quatrains in the plate from ed. of 1650. Letterpress quatrains printed above plates and longer poems on facing versos are new to this ed. J.G. Müller's poems from the 1st ed. are printed as appendix on p. -144 Added etched title: Rudolf Meyers S. Todten-Dantz Signatures: pi² a² b c² A-S. Leaf a1 signed a2 Errata, p. 144 Brunet Binding: marbled paper, back & corners in goatskin. Spine gilt tooled, title on orange label. Edges red. Green ribbon place marker

Author
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689, Meyer, Rudolf Theodor, 1605-1638, Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689. Sterbensspiegel
Date
1759
Publisher
Hamburg und Leipzig : [s.n.]
Language
ger
Copyright
Public domain in the US

Subjects

Dance of DeathDeath in artgenealogy

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