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MEYER, Rudolf (1605-1638) and Conrad (1618-1689), illustrators. Sterbensspiegel das ist sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch all Ständ und Geschlechter. Zurich: Johann Jacob Bodmer, 1650.
Small 4° (185 x 148mm). Etched title and 60 full-page illustrations by C. Meyer after R. Meyer, errata at end. (Very lightly browned or occasional light finger soiling.) Roan by Bradstreet’s, top edge gilt. Provenance: Carl J. Ulmann (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, entitled Todten-dantz. Ergantzet und herausgegeben on the frontispiece, with dramatic copperplates by the two brothers Meyer, and poems on plate versos by Hans Heinrich Rahn, Johann Willhelm Simler, Jakob Redinger and Leonhard Ernst von Freyental. Brunet III, 1690; Faber du Faur 453; Praz 425.
Small 4° (185 x 148mm). Etched title and 60 full-page illustrations by C. Meyer after R. Meyer, errata at end. (Very lightly browned or occasional light finger soiling.) Roan by Bradstreet’s, top edge gilt. Provenance: Carl J. Ulmann (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, entitled Todten-dantz. Ergantzet und herausgegeben on the frontispiece, with dramatic copperplates by the two brothers Meyer, and poems on plate versos by Hans Heinrich Rahn, Johann Willhelm Simler, Jakob Redinger and Leonhard Ernst von Freyental. Brunet III, 1690; Faber du Faur 453; Praz 425.
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