Die menschliche Sterblichkeit unter dem Titel Todten-Tanz
Subtitle: in LXI. Original-Kupfern
By: von Rudolf und Conrad Meyern, berühmten Kunstmahlern in Zürich, abermal herausgegeben; nebst neuen, dazu dienenden, moralischen Versen und Ueberschriften
Contributors: Müller, Johann Georg, active 17th century
Published: 1759
Place of publication: Hamburg; Und Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Death; Poetry; Swiss Engraving
Other titles: Sterbenspiegel.
Work titles: Dance of Death
Notes: J.G.T. Grässe, Trésor de livres rare et précieux, Milano. V.V, p. 513; A. Rümann, Illustrierte deutschen Bücher des 18. Jahr-hunderts, Strassburg, 1931. no. 1155; S. Minns, Dance of death, Greenwich, Conn., 1922. no. 444; L.P. Kurtz, Dance of death, New York, 1934. p. 237-283. Cf. Faber du Faur, no. 454.

First published, 1650, with title: Sterbenspiegel.

Comprises 62 engravings (frontispiece and 57 [i.e. 61] full-page illustrations) by Conrad and Rudolf Meyer, with accompanying Bible verses and poetry. Except for the verses engraved at foot of each illustration, the text of this edition is new. J.B. Müller's verses from the first edition are printed as an appendix on p.[124]-144.

The preface includes biographical sketches and lists the work of the Meyers.