[Klare und Warhaffte Entwerffung Menschlicher Gestalt und Wesenheit oder Dessen Auffgang und Untergang [...].

Sm. 8vo: [64 (of 66)] ff. (title and A8 missing, (water) stains, sm. hole in pl. 34, cut a bit too short shaving a few pl.).

19th-c. half brown calf, marbled paper on boards, gilt- and blind-orn. flat spine (used, one joint starting to split, def. on endcaps, inner joints split).

First edition of this booklet published by the "Wiener Totentanz-Bruderschaft" as a "memento mori" reading. Only a few copies of the original are known to exist. Ill. with 61 (pl. 7 missing) engravings accompanying a Scripture verse with its German translation and a quatrain in German. Enriched with an engraving (French caption "Ainsy fuit la gloire du monde") laid on a f. in frontispiece. Old ms. note on endpaper.
Ref. VD17 23:240525C (only copy: Wolfenbüttel). - Emblematica online.
Prov. J. Greinderghs (?) 1826 (ms. entry). - M. Eloi [19]10 (id.). - Charles Aunoye 1999 (id.). - Laird of Glencairn (armorial stamps).
Joined: Holbein, H. - L'alphabet de la mort [...]. Entouré de bordures du XVIe siècle et suivi d'anciens poëmes français sur le sujet des trois mors et des trois vies. Publiés d'après les manuscrits par Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris, E. Tross, 1856. 8vo. Pub. red cloth. Nice copy. (2 vol.)