Ventes live - Lot 743
[Dance of Death]
Theatrum mortis humanae [...].
Salzburg, J.B. Mayr, 1682
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Description du lot
4to: [8 incl. front.]-255 pp. (some min. staining and spotting, front. loose, tiny hole in bl. margin I3, tear in upper blank margin Bb3, tear in upper blank margin Ii2, edges frayed).
Sewn (wr. def., spine gone). Uncut copy.
First and only very rare edition of the "Danse macabre" of Valvasor ill. with a front. and 120 engravings by Johann Koch after Holbein and Andreas Trost, each within a different border decorated with flowers and animals. Here in the title variant without "Cum" (VD17). The work is divided into 3 parts: "Der Toden-Tanz", "Underschiedliche Todts-Gattungen" and "Der Verdambten Höllen-Peyn/vorstellend". Text in Latin and German, printed in Gothic and roman. Title in red & black.
Ref. VD17 39:150265P.