Le triomphe de la mort gravé d'après les dessins originaux de Holbein par Chrétien de Méchel, graveur a Bale
Contributors: Mechel, Christian von, 1737-1817, engraver; Del Monte, Domingo, 1804-1853, former owner; Imp. Simon Raçon et Comp; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Imprimerie Simon Raçon et Comp.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Dance of Death
Work titles: Dance of Death. French
Notes: 47 engraved plates with accompanying interleaved "explication des figures," plus one final plate at the end. Plate 1 is the original title page. Plate 47 is an engraving of a dagger sheath decorated with Holbein's designs.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Domingo Del Monte, Cuban writer and collector, with his bookplate: "Ex Museo del Montino".

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red leather (goatskin?), sewn on five recessed supports; upper and lower covers with gold-tooled borders around a blind-tooled background containing gilt fleurons; spine with five false raised bands, gilt in compartments, signed "Bardisser" at tail end of spine; doublure of marbled paper; inner joint of red leather; gold-tooled turn-ins and joints; board edges gilt with a double-line fillet; marbled free endpapers; blue ribbon marker; all edges gilt; three-color silk endbands.