Totentanz: Erzahlt nach 12 stichten von Daniel Chodowiecki
by Walther Nithack-Stahn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
$200.00$170.00
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About This Item
Lovely suite of the ultra-rare Dance of Death etchings by the genius printmaker and painter Daniel Chodowiecki
Very good copy of this meticulous early 20th-century German reprint
Number 856 of a limited edition of 1,000
Complete with title-page with engraved vignette, 12 copperplates and 74 pages of text.
Decorative front cover in gold and black designed by Ernst Nicolas
Daniel Chodowiecki's legendary Dance of Death sequence was never published in book form. Instead, the twelve figures only appeared in the Ravenberg Calendar, 1792.
There are some unusual subjects along with the usual clerics and royalty. A fish wife killed by Death with a scythe, a prostitute whipped by a skeleton with a cat'o-nine-tails, a baby stolen by a winged skeleton while the mother sleeps, a swordsman losing a duel to a skeleton with a bone, a soldier on guard duty surprised by Death, etc.
For this edition, Chodowiecki's engravings were reprinted on a hand press at Meisenbarth Riffarth engraving company in Berlin.
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801) was a Polish painter and printmaker who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin as a prolific book illustrator.
Walter Nithack-Stern (1866-1942) was a Protestant theologian and writer who was born and raised in Berlin.
Original black cloth boards with gilt title and decorative tooling on front board, all edges uncut, all text and plates clean and bright with crisp impressions of the plates. Paper just starting to age-tone.
A lovely copy.
Very good copy of this meticulous early 20th-century German reprint
Number 856 of a limited edition of 1,000
Complete with title-page with engraved vignette, 12 copperplates and 74 pages of text.
Decorative front cover in gold and black designed by Ernst Nicolas
Daniel Chodowiecki's legendary Dance of Death sequence was never published in book form. Instead, the twelve figures only appeared in the Ravenberg Calendar, 1792.
There are some unusual subjects along with the usual clerics and royalty. A fish wife killed by Death with a scythe, a prostitute whipped by a skeleton with a cat'o-nine-tails, a baby stolen by a winged skeleton while the mother sleeps, a swordsman losing a duel to a skeleton with a bone, a soldier on guard duty surprised by Death, etc.
For this edition, Chodowiecki's engravings were reprinted on a hand press at Meisenbarth Riffarth engraving company in Berlin.
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801) was a Polish painter and printmaker who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin as a prolific book illustrator.
Walter Nithack-Stern (1866-1942) was a Protestant theologian and writer who was born and raised in Berlin.
Original black cloth boards with gilt title and decorative tooling on front board, all edges uncut, all text and plates clean and bright with crisp impressions of the plates. Paper just starting to age-tone.
A lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo300
- Title
- Totentanz
- Author
- Walther Nithack-Stahn
- Illustrator
- Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
- Format/Binding
- Decorative gilt cloth boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eigenbrodler Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- [1926]
- Pages
- 74
- Size
- 8vo, 19.5 x 14cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Totentanz, Dance of Death, Berlin, Walther Nithack-Stahn, Daniel Chodowiecki, engraving,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dance of Death;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
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About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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