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DANCE OF DEATH. -- Johann Rudolf SCHELLENBERG (1740-1806). Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier. Text by J.K.A.Musaeus. Winterthur: Heinrich Steiner & Co., 1785. 8° (187 x 117mm). Engraved frontispiece and 24 plates by Schellenberg. (Light soiling to first few plates.) Contemporary half speckled sheep (joints a little weak, the upper slightly split). Provenance: contemporary ownership stamp on title. FIRST EDITION. Goedeke IV, 580. -- Rudolf MEYER (1605-1638) & Conrad (1618-1689). Die menschliche Sterblichkeit, unter dem Titel Todten-Tanz, in LXI. Original-Kupfern. Hamburg & Leipzig: 1759. 4° (196 x 154mm). Copper engraved frontispiece and 61 full-page illustrations by the Meyers. Modern vellum. The plates are re-worked and reprinted from the edition of 1650. Cf. Brunet III. 1690. -- Hans HOLBEIN (1497-1543). La Triomphe de la Mort gravé d'apres les dessins de Holbein, par W.Hollar. [London: Edwards, 1790]. 8° (184 x 132mm). Folding engraved frontispiece, 2 portraits of Holbein and Hollar, 30 plates by Hollar after Holbein. (Light soiling to the text.) Later half calf (extremities scuffed). Brunet III. 258. -- Hans HOLBEIN. The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death... selected by Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: Firmin Didot for Edwin Tross, 1856. 8° (199 x 127mm). Wood-engraved title vignette (repeated at the end), borders and initials after Holbein. Original green cloth gilt. -- With 2 others (Der Todten-Tantz, Basle: 1796, 8°; and a collection of 8 disbound plates, apparently from 'Meissner's Schatzkästlein' of 1642). (6)