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Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier

Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier

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Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier

by Johan Karl Musaus

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  • Hardcover
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About This Item

New edition with 24 figures by Mansfield after Schellenberg

First thus with new half-page engravings by Viennese engraver Johan George Mansfeld after the originals by Swiss artist and entomologist Johann Rudolf Schellenberg published in 1785.

Complete with frontispiece and 24 fine plates depicting allegorical scenes with a skeleton of death (Freund Hein) visiting people from different levels of society.

Includes frontispiece Memento Mori, lovers, desperation, vanity, balloonist, schoolteacher, judge, womanizer, baby in swaddling clothes, monk, poor man, lottery player, Viennese and Roman women, loan shark, glutton, tightrope walker, Masonic lodge, press gang, Berthold Schwarz the alchemist, gentleman's duel, bookseller, woman teacher, quack doctor and the authors.

The final plate shows the author Musaus and artist Schellenberg in an embrace with the skeleton of Death.

Bookplate of Richardi M. Meyer (1860-1914), German philologist, literary historian, scholar and writer.

Some scuffing to the buckram boards, light spotting to the text and plates, but a nice copy of this rare edition.

Beautiful and rare illustrated volume, considered the first modern book on the Dance of Death.

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Bookseller
Florilegius JP (JP)
Bookseller's Inventory #
Flo146
Title
Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier
Author
Johan Karl Musaus
Illustrator
Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, Johan George Mansfeld
Format/Binding
Brown buckram spine and boards
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
None
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
Place of Publication
Mannheim
Date Published
1803
Size
Octavo, 16.5 x 10.5
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
illustrated, dance of death, Schellenberg, danse macabre, caricature, Johan George Mansfeld, engraving
Bookseller catalogs
Dance of Death;

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Florilegius

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Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo

About Florilegius

Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.

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