De kapelle der dooden, of de algemeene doodenspiegel. In welken alle Menschen, van wat Staat of Rang zy zyn mogen, zich tot hun nut konnen beschouwen : om indagtig te zyn het memento mori, of gedenkt te sterven... / zynde het laatste werk van den beroemden Pater Abraham van Sta. Clara.

Jo Spence floating.

166 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Emblèmes de la mort : le dialogue de l'image et du texte / Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani.

367 pages : colour illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

95 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm

Basler Totentanz / Text, Franz Egger.

62 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

La danse macabre de La Chaise-Dieu / par Claudie et Pierre Boissé ; présentation par Pierre-Roger Gaussin ; photographies, Roger Choplain et Roland Maston.

The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature / Karl S. Guthke.

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Death in art

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Emblèmes de la mort : le dialogue de l'image et du texte / Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani.

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

Basler Totentanz / Text, Franz Egger.

La danse macabre de La Chaise-Dieu / par Claudie et Pierre Boissé ; présentation par Pierre-Roger Gaussin ; photographies, Roger Choplain et Roland Maston.

The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature / Karl S. Guthke.

Death in art

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Emblèmes de la mort : le dialogue de l'image et du texte / Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani.

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

Basler Totentanz / Text, Franz Egger.

La danse macabre de La Chaise-Dieu / par Claudie et Pierre Boissé ; présentation par Pierre-Roger Gaussin ; photographies, Roger Choplain et Roland Maston.

The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature / Karl S. Guthke.

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