(Holbein,H.). Imagines mortis. His accesserunt, epigrammata, e Gallico idiomate …
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(Holbein,H.).

Imagines mortis. His accesserunt, epigrammata, e Gallico idiomate a Georgio Aemylio in Latinum translata. Ad haec, medicina animae.... Cologne, Arnold Birckmann's heirs 1555. cl.8°. With woodcut printer's mark on the back and 53 woodcuts in text by Anton Sylvius after Hans Holbein. 115 fol. morocco (Sign.: Zaehnsdorf) with gold stamped fillets. fillets, title in gilt, some gilt, standing and inner edge gilt, as well as gilt edges. (back with large missing part). Adams D 76. cf. Adams D 75 and Fairfax Murray German 203 (First Cologne edition ibid. 1555 with 99 and 1 w. fol.). - Second Cologne edition with the laterally reversed, somewhat enlarged reproductions of Lützelburger's woodcuts published in 1547. - Without the w. Fol. at the end. Occasionally slightly spotted, some marginalia, 1 woodcut ancolored, partly somewhat scarcely trimmed - bookplate. - With woodcut printer's device and 53 woodcuts in the text. Morocco (signed Zaehnsdorf) (spine with damage). Lacking the white sheet at the end. Occasionally slightly stained. Marginalia.

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