Le triomphe de la mort gravé d’après les desseins originaux de Holbein par chretien de mechel graveur a bale by Jean Holbein

• Hardcover: 6pp + 92pp + additional 47 engravings
• Binding: half leather
• Language: French
• Publish Date: 1780
• Publisher: Stuttgart: Verlag v. Konrad Wittwer
• Shipping Weight: 520 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 21,5 x 16 cm

Very rare and curious work.

Illustrated title page, portrait frontispiece, 45 tissue-guarded plates.

The Dance of Death – Hans Holbein’s masterpiece of the macabre, originally published in Lyons in 1538. It was newly etched at the end of the 18th century by David Deuchar who published several series of etchings after great masters, such as Rembrandt and Van Ostade. It was thereafter re-issued by John Holbein as a collection of 48 engraved plates by Hans Holbein, each accompanied by short description.

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Coronis biennii philosophici, peripatetico-thomistici in Alma … Universitate Salisb. ad consuetam ibidem docendi normam per IV partes antehac editi, sive physica particularis: complectens doctrinam Aristotelico-thomisticam … by Bernhard Oberhauser

• Hardcover: 995pp + 28pp
  
• Binding: parchment
• Language: Latin
• Publish Date: 1729
• Publisher: Salzburg, J.J. Mayr
• Shipping Weight: 1441 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 21 x 17 cm

First Edition.- Bernhard Oberhauser (1694-1739) was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Salzburg in 1724/25. “In the 17th century, the Benedictine Order prepared its main role for the Catholic Enlightenment, which became for example, in the Knights Academy in Ettal, where Salzburg Benedictine professors, such as Bernard Oberhauser (1694-1739) taught, and in the increasing influence of the French Benedictines (Mauriner) manifested. ” (Crossing IV, 365)

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Institutiones historiae philosophicae by Johann Jakob Brucker

• Hardcover: 22pp + 730pp + 16pp
  
• Binding: parchment
• Language: Latin
• Publish Date: 1747
• Publisher: Lipsiae, Impensis Bernard. Christoph. Breitkopfii
• Shipping Weight: 700 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm

Brucker’s history of philosophy was considered one of the most important, and authoritative, editions until the 19th century.

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