Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1909
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/269
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lot 261—continued. Erben, lit. goth. engraved title and 42 fine engravings, early im- pressions, purple morocco, line tooled, inside dentelles, t. e.g. by A. Matthews, FINE COPY, scarce, painted armorial bearings of former owner inserted sm. 4to. Franckfurt, Merian, 1696 262 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Dance des Morts telle qu’on la voit depeinte dan la célébre Ville de Basle ; traduite de Allemand en Francois par les soins des Héritiers de feu Matthieu Merian, 42 copper-plates engraved by M. Merian, brown calf antique by A. Matthews, in open solander case sm. 4to. Berlin, aux depens des Héretiers de l_ Auteur, 1697 *,* First edition with French text throughout by le Sieur P. Vieu [see PEIGNOT]. 263 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Danse des Morts, comme elle est depeinte dans la louable et célebre Ville de Basle; dessinée et eravée sur l’Original de feu Matthieu Merian ; avec une Descrip- tion de la Ville de Basle, etc. engraved title and 85 fine copper- plate engravings, text in French and German, limp vellum, QUITE UNCUT (some Il. not cut open), with the original paper covers, RARE IN THIS STATE 4to. @& Basle chés J. R. Im-Hoff, 1744 264 Dance of Death. [Baste]. La Danse des Morts pour servir de Miroir a la Nature Humaine; avec le Costume dessiné a la Moderne et des vers A chaque figure, ttle within engraved emblematic bor- der in compartments, 42 engravings of the Dance of Death on 21 plates, fine full-page engraving of the Temptation of Eve, folding plate of the Crucifixion, and a plate of the double head, au Locle chez Sammel Girardet Libraire, s. d. (1788)—L’ Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir, fine frontispiece, 7b. 1788 ; in 1 vol. halfbound, RARE 8vo y° An adaptation of the Merian designs by an unknown artist, who has introduced costumes of the 18th century. [See Douce]. 265 Dance of Death: [Basle]. Der Totden-Tantz wie derselbe in der weitberiihmten Stadt Basel ... zu sehen ist, Itt. goth. 42 woodcuts, half brown morocco, t.e. g. scarce edition (see Douce) 8v0. Basel, Gebriider von Mechel, 1796 266 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Der Todten-Tantz der Stadt Basel. La Dance des Morts, 42 woodcuts from the Basle paintings and after Holbein, half morocco, t. @. 9. sq. 8vo. Bile, Moehly-Lamy, 1843 267 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Emblems of Mortality represented by numerous engravings of Death seizing all Ranks and Conditions of People, 47 cuts by A. Anderson after John Bewick, half calf, t. e. g. uncut sm. 8vo. Charleston and New Haven, Babcock & Co. 1846 268 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Maszmann (H. F.) Die Baseler Todten- tiinze in getreuen Abbildungen ; sammt einem Anhange ; Todten- tanz in Holzschnitten des funfzehnten Jahrhunderts, 81 subjects on 22 copper-plates and 27 reproductions from the Block-Book in the
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