TOTENTANZ - Meyer, Rudolf u. Conrad. Sterbensspiegel, that is sun-clear conception of human nothingness through all ranks and sexes. With gest. Title and 56 (of 60) nearly sheet-sized death dance engravings. Zurich, J. J. Bodmer, 1650. cl.-4°. [10] ll., 166 p., [1] leaf. Modern vellum binding with hs. title on spine. VD17 39:152157A - Leemann-van Elck, Zürcher. Buchill. 110ff. - Nagler 10, 268, 1 - Faber du Faur 453 - Massmann p. 50, no.1 - Brun II, 382 - Langlois II, p.129 - Lonchamp 2073 - First edition. - Beside the Basel cycle by Merian the most important Swiss dance of death with extraordinarily characteristic representations. "A summit of the art of illustration in Zurich" (Leemann-v. E.). - The rhymes a. praise poems in the pictures are by Hans Heinrich Rahn, Johann Willhelm Simler, Jakob Redinger a. Leonhard Ernst von Freyental, the engravings for the most part by Konrad Meyer (1618-1689), who also acted as publisher, a. his elder brother Rudolf (1605-1638). At the end (from p. 123) a collection of four-part songs for the dead with printed notes. -