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The Modern Dance of Death 106 SCHELLENBERG, Johann Rudolf. Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier. Winterthur, Heinrich Steiner und Comp. 1785. £2000 8vo, pp. engraved frontispiece, pp. 165, [2] Wnal blank; with twenty- Wve engraved plates; title a little dust-soiled, text very clean and crisp, but some light spotting and browning to margins of plates; early nineteenth-century half calf, Xat spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, corners worn, upper board scratched; small collector’s name stamp to title ‘O. v. Lobedanz’, and bookseller label Perthes, Hamburg to front paste-down. susanne schulz-falster rare books
First edition, uncommon, of this unusual Dance of Death, illustrated with superbly executed etchings of death striking in everyday situations, including some documenting current events, such as the burning of MontgolWer’s balloon, or the invention of gunpowder. Schellenberg is the Wrst to virtually abandon the example of Holbein, and break with the medieval and Renaissance traditions of the depiction of death. Instead he shows contemporary man faced with death, and comments on the social and political realities of the time. Together with the satirical text of Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), this clearly mirrors contemporary attitude to death. As a res ult of enlightenment debates on death and dying, initiated by Lessing, Schellenberg depicts death as ‘Freund Hein’, based on a character in Matthias Claudius’ Wandsbecker Bote. He shows death as a skeleton, lurking in everyday situations, such as the disappointed lover, the usurer, the glutton, the negligent mother, but also includes unusual scenes, such as a tightrope walker falling, the lottery gambler losing, and a bookseller being buried under his books. The illustrations are etched in a simple rococo style. Schellenberg (1740–1806), a skilled Swiss artist and engraver supplied some of the plates for Lavater as well as executing many of Chodowiecki’s designs. Goedeke IV/1; Graesse VI, 298; Lanckoronska-Oehler II, 175V. (Schellenbergs Meisterleistung); Massmann S. 59, A–1; Oppermann 1200 (plate series without text); Rümann 788. 107 SCHULTZE, Benjamin. Orientalisch- und Occidentalisches A, B, C – Buch welches hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache so bei denen meisten Europäisch-Asiatisch-Africanisch- und Americanischen Völckern und Nationen gebräuchlich sind, nebst einigen Tabulis Polyglottis, verschiedener Sprachen und Zahlen vor Augen leget. Naumburg and Zeitz, Christian Friedrich Gessner, 1769. £950 8vo, pp. [xii], 219, [5], with 12 engraved plates and one folding printed table; with numerous alphabet specimens in the text; lightly browned throughout, due to paper stock; a few sample leaves cut close at foot; contemporary paste-paper covered boards, a little rubbed. First edition thus, of this important work of eighteenth century linguistic studies, illustrating the alphabets and pronunciation of one hundred European, Asian, African and American languages, clearly aimed at the missionary market. Of particular visual appeal are the numerous tables showing exotic alphabets and numbers. Schultze includes such languages as Ethiopian, Malagassy, Singalese, Marath, Mexican, Savannah, Virginia, Japanese, Chinese, etc. In the brief section on American languages Schultze deplores the lack of information on them, cites some of the early reports and gives some details of Algonquin, Huron, Massachusetts (with a mention of Johan Elliot’s Bible translation of 1666), and Makentowonits languages amongst catalogue fourteen
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