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Theatrum mortis humanæ tripartitum. I. Pars. Saltum mortis. II. Pars. Varia genera mortis. III. Pars. Pnas damnatorum continens. Figuris æneis illustratum, das ist, Schau-Bühne desz menschlichen Todts in drey Theil. 1. Theil. Der Toden Tantz. 2. Theil. Underschidliche Todts-Gattungen. 3. Theil. Der Verdambten Höllen-Peyn, vorstellend. Mit Schönen Kupffer-Stichen geziehrt vnd an Tag gegeben. Durch Joannem Weichardum Valvasor..

by: Valvasor, Johann Weichard, 1641-1693; Koch, Johannes, 1640-1702, illus; Trost, Andreas, d. 1708, engr; Heckenstaller, Joseph Jakob, 1748-1832, former owner. IU-R

Publication date: 1682

Topics: Death, Hell, Engravings, German

Publisher: Gedruckt zu Laybach : Vnd zu finden bey Johann Baptista Mayr, in Saltzburg

Collection: emblem; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: German

Brunet, V, 1067. Radics, P. von. Johann Weikhard, Freiherr von Valvasor. Laibach, 1910. p. 174-184. Dance of death. The dance of death...with a dissertation...by Francis Douce. London, 1833. p. 129-130

Colophon of each part dated 1681

Illustrations: 1 full-page engraving (frontispiece) and numerous half-page engravings, by Andreas Trost after Johann Koch, many signed. The engravings in pt. 1, although unsigned, are presumably by Trost and are said to derive from Holbein's designs for the Dance of death, possibly by way of Arnaud Nicolai's woodcuts in the 1555 Cologne edition of the Dance of death (q. v.). All the half-page engravings are within borders depicting plants, insects, birds, beasts, etc

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois