The skeleton of Death pushing a bookcase on top of a bookseller at his desk, 18th century. Heavy volumes rain down on a book dealer. Trap of plunder. Raub der Falle. Signature in mirror writing. Copperplate engraving by drawn and engraved by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Karl Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein), Heinrich Steiner, Winterthur, 1785.

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