ALBUM SUR LE THEME DE LA MORT ET VANITES - 18th century oblong composite album of approximately 150 woodcuts, burins and etchings on the theme of death, danse macabre, VANITES... mounted on 54 rigid leaves. Including: "L'entretien des bons esprits sur les vanités du monde", 17th century, burin, 13.7 x 8.5 cm. "Theo. de Mayerne Eques ...", 17th, burin, 14 x 9 cm. "Last words and death of the Aristocracy", c.1790, burin, 17.5 x 10.5 cm. "Mortis in certitudo", burin after Rudolph Meyer (and 5 plates from the same suite), 13 x 9.7 cm. "Mors ultima linea rerum" (vanity), burin, 11.5 x 7.5 cm. [The Empire of Death (Vanitas)", burin by Hieronymus WIERIX, 10 x 7 cm. [Woman with Skull], burin, 9.5 x 7.5 cm. "The Delights of Death", burin by C. Galle. 15.5 x 9.7 cm. [Allegory of Death with Adam and Eve], burin by C. Galle (?), 15 x 9.2 cm. "I deceive everyone", engraved by C. Galle. 15 x 9.5 cm. "Nothing so certain as death", burin, 11.5 x 7.5 cm. "Promptitudo ad mortem", burin, 8.5 x 4.7 cm. "Fibis", engraved after Hogarth. 9.8 x 11.6 cm. Suite of woodcuts by or after Holbein. Approx. 6.8 x 10 cm each. 19 x 26 cm for the album. Condition A (generally good).