Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
February 1766
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 11 (Miscellany); Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 4
Notes:
Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue
"Cuts" indicates the presence of illustrations (usually engraved).
Valued at 1s 6d in Du Simitière estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4
Du Simitière lent a copy of this work to Miss Beulah Paschal on 1 July 1776; to Mis Hannah Smith of Burlington, N.J. on 7 Feb 1777; and to B. Shoemaker on 26 June 1781. Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol.16v, 18v, 63r
The first edition of Mattaeus Merian's Dance of Death engraved by Jacques-Anthony Chovin with a description of the city of Basel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini. The German text is printed above and below the engravings, and the French on the verso.
Title Information:
Todten-Tans = Danse des morts
Imprint Information:
Basel: Johann Rudolf Im Hof, 1744
Repository:
LCP, call no. Is Basl 489.Q
