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[2], 47 p. w/ 47 lithographic engravings each protected by a sheet of tissue. 9 x 6 in. 47 numbered engravings, beginning with the title page and ending with the supurb engraving of an actual Holbein original drawing of a Dance of Death dagger handle design, which von Mechel was the first to make. Each engraving is protected by a tissue leaf, including the title page, is printed on heavy stock paper, and does not contain any other descriptions or language accompanying the engravings other than the notations below the image (see photos). Although retaining the same title page as the original edition, it is generally accepted this copy is a separately printed lithographic edition from ~1850. As an example of the same/similar binding, decorative endpapers, and content, see copy held by the Bauhaus Universitat Weimar, which can be digitally accessed here: https://digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de/viewer/!metadata/PPN623138093/97/-/
A rare printing of Christian von Mechel's 'Le Triomphe de la Mort', which… Read More

The third English/John Florio translated edition of Michel de Montaigne's Essays, and the first to contain the engraved architectural frontispiece (often lacking) by Martin Droeshout, the engraver who famously engraved Shakespeare's portrait frontispiece in the First Folio published in 1623; the table of contents listing all essays/headings by book; and the Index of "principal matters and personages in this book."
Collated complete. Folio (27.5 x 18cm), [xii], 631, [1], [12] pp., including 'To the Beholder of This Title' poem bound before B1, Montaigne, Michel de London: M[iles] Flesher, for Richard Royston, 1632. Contemporary sprinkled calf, later skillfully rebacked to preserve contemporary binding, but with later, possibly 18th century label, wearing. Rebinding possibly done by Henry Southeran's, one of the oldest operating bookdealers and binders founded in 1761. Small stamp on renewed end paper (and full page printed sale invoice on laid paper tipped in, undated) bearing the address of Sackville… Read More