Des Hochberuehmten Jüdischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher. Translated by K. Lautenbach

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

Des Hochberuehmten Jüdischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher. Translated by K. Lautenbach

Title in red and black within detailed historiated border. Printer’s device on last page. More than one hundred text woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer, all appear in very good impressions. ff.(6),524,(20). * BOUND WITH: Hegesippus. Füff Bücher: Vom Jüdischen Krieg. ff.(6),118,(5) Lightly stained and browned. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum, with clasps and hinges, front hinge repaired. Folio

Strasbourg: T. Rihel 1587

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $700

The beautiful woodcuts, largely after C. van Sichem, belong “zu den schönsten Erzeugnissen der deutschen Formschneidekunst in der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts.” (Thieme-B. XXXII, 59)