742 - Dance of Death - Abraham a Sancta Clara (i.e., Johann Ulrich Megerle). Merck’s Vienna: A Detailed Description of Furious Death in the Famous Imperial and Royal Residence in Austria, in the year sixteen hundred and seventy-nine. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 copperplate engravings (on interleaved pages), and several text vignettes. Vienna, Vivian, 1680. 6 leaves, pp. 11–176. 16 x 10 cm. New cardboard binding.

Dance of Death - Abraham a Sancta Clara (i.e., Johann Ulrich Megerle). Merck’s Vienna: A Detailed Description of Furious Death in the Famous Imperial and Royal Residence in Austria, in the year sixteen hundred and seventy-nine. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 copperplate engravings (on interleaved pages), and several text vignettes. Vienna, Vivian, 1680. 6 leaves, pp. 11–176. 16 x 10 cm. New cardboard binding. First edition. — Dünnhaupt 9.7 (cf.) — Bertsche 9a, 8 — Dance of Death Cat. 2000 No. 66 (cf.) - A satirical account of the events during the eleven-month plague, which made him famous far beyond the borders of Austria. “Mercks Wien is the first major publication by the famous Baroque preacher Abraham à Sancta Clara.” (Dance of Death Cat.) - The illustrations, described by Dünnhaupt as “text copperplate engravings,” are printed on interleaved pages, each of which repeats the page number of the sheet preceding or following it. They depict scenes from the Dance of Death, including a multi-line poem (printed in red and black in nos. 1–6). - Frontispiece: left margin backed with some loss of image; title page has an owner’s inscription and a collector’s stamp; title margin backed, slightly browned. *