The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, 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. Copperplate engraving by Johan Georg Mansfeld after an original by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg from Johan Kark Musaus’s Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier, (Apparitions of Death in the manner of Holbein) Mannheim, 1803.

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