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HOLBEIN, Hans, the younger]. Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées . Lyons: Melchior & Gaspar Trechsel, 1538. Small 4° (170 x 125mm). Collation: A-N 4 . Woodcut printer's device on title, fine woodcut historiated initials, 41 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS by Hans Lützelburger after Holbein, printed one to a page with Biblical quotations above and quatrain in French below. FIRST EDITION OF HOLBEIN'S "DANCE OF DEATH". Baudrier V, pp. 175-177; Chamberlain, Hans Holbein the younger I, 204 ff; Harvard/Mortimer, French 284; Fairfax Murray, French 247. Bound with: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad vivum expressae . Lyons: Melchior Gaspar Trechsel, 1539. Small 4° (170 x 125mm). Collation: A-N 4 (A3 with Corrozet's introduction missing and replaced with a blank leaf). Woodcut printer's device on title and on last leaf, 94 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS printed one to a page with Latin descriptive text above and quatrain in French below. Second edition of Holbein's Old Testament cuts. Baudrier V, pp. 179-80; Harvard/Mortimer French 278. 2 works in one volume. (Minor waterstaining in outer corner of some leaves in both works.) Early 19th-century red morocco gilt. Provenance: Kinek Meynsma (manuscript note regarding his family, dated 1560); Edmée Maus of Geneva (bookplate).