Opera. Complete works: Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish Wars, Against Apion, Maccabees.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 170
JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS.

Opera. Complete works: Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish Wars, Against Apion, Maccabees.

Printer’s device on title. Greek and Latin face `a face. Historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces. From the Cassuto Collection. pp. (8), 1102 (mispaginated but complete), (2 blank), 26. Foxed and lightly stained. Final leaves of Index a bit wormed, text very slightly affected. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments, pocked. Thick folio. Schreckenberg, Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (1968), p. 21.

Geneva: P. de la Rouvière 1611

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $650