Drexel, Jeremias Aeternitatis prodromus mortis... Lot n° 27

dance of death Drexel, Jeremiah. Aeternitatis prodromus mortis nuntius quem sanis, aegrotis, moribundis sistit. With title copper and 3 copper plates and woodcut vignettes. Cologne, Egmond, 1630. 6 sheets, 333 p., 3 sheets. 12°. Pgt. d. Zt. (slightly blotchy). Sommervogel III, 191 - Dünnhaupt 592 - Latin script about death and transience written by the Bavarian Jesuit Jeremias Drexler (cf. NDB 4 (1959), p. 119f). With three magnificent allegorical death dance representations. - Title in lower w. Margin with mark, sides tls. browned, situated sth. brownstained. - Good specimen overall. - Including: Prola, J.M. day of true life, dedicated to the preparation for a holy death ... With stabbed. Frontispiece. Mainz, Häffner, 1743. 1 sheet, 202 p., 1 sheet. Kl.-8°. Ldr. d. Zt. (bumped, lower joints torn, foot capital with missing part). - Exlibris George Cornwall Legh, lightly browned, slightly stained.