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MERIAN, MATTHAEUS. 1593–1650.:Todten-Tanz / La danse des morts. Basel: Jean Rodolphe Imhof, 1756.
4to (204 x 158 mm). Text in French and German, French title page dated 1756, engraved German title page dated 1744, 43 engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary brokatpapier boards, rebacked in modern quarter morocco, depicting allegorical figures of spring and summer framed in foliate borders. Boards worn, corners bumped, top margin of German title page trimmed away to remove old ownership inscription (with visible offsetting on French title page), light spotting and minor stains.
Bilingual edition with French text by Jacques Anthony Chauvin, but with new plates created from the final state of Merian\’s original plates. The images reproduce parts of the Totentanz fresco (c.1440) that lined a cemetery wall in Basel. Merian\’s engravings, first published in 1621, made the fresco famous throughout Europe. The original fresco was demolished in 1805. Le Blanc III, p 31; Thieme-Becker XXIV, 412.
