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HOLBEIN, Hans (1497-1543). Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. Lyons: M. and G. Trechsel for J. and F. Frellon, 1538. 4° (166 x 113mm). Trechsel device on title, criblé initials, and 41 woodcuts after Holbein, cut by Hans Lützelburger. (Lacking H-N4, some faint underlining.) 20th-century green crushed morocco, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Cape.
HOLBEIN, Hans (1497-1543). Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. Lyons: M. and G. Trechsel for J. and F. Frellon, 1538. 4° (166 x 113mm). Trechsel device on title, criblé initials, and 41 woodcuts after Holbein, cut by Hans Lützelburger. (Lacking H-N4, some faint underlining.) 20th-century green crushed morocco, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Cape.

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HOLBEIN, Hans (1497-1543). Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. Lyons: M. and G. Trechsel for J. and F. Frellon, 1538. 4° (166 x 113mm). Trechsel device on title, criblé initials, and 41 woodcuts after Holbein, cut by Hans Lützelburger. (Lacking H-N4, some faint underlining.) 20th-century green crushed morocco, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Cape.

FIRST EDITION of Holbein's famous 'Dance of Death' cycle. A 'remarkable work with its most fascinating designs of exquisite finish' (Davis). This copy contains the full set of Holbein's fine woodcuts, although missing the supplementary text (quires H-N). Davis, Murray French 247; Mortimer, Harvard French 284.

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