Libri Antiguitatum * Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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Lot 189

PHILO JUDAEUS.

Libri Antiguitatum * Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo.

Five works in one. <<FIRST LATIN EDITION.>> Printers’ device on title and repeated on verso of final unnumbered leaf (cf.Yaari Printers’ Marks no. 11). Initial letters within historiated woodcut vignettes by Hans Holbein. pp. (8), 142, (2). Dampstained. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Folio. Adams P-1031.

Basle: Adam Petri 1527

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

Group of five works by the Jewish philosopher of antiquity, Philo of Alexandria. The most notable work of the group is Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin - Questions and Answers on Genesis, a work in the form of a Hellenistic commentary, wherein each paragraph is headed by an exegetic question, answered by a short literal and lengthy allegorical explanation. The other works are digests of Philo’s writings. BOUND WITH:Philippus, Presbyter. In historiam Iob commentariorum libri tres. pp. [24], 211. [Adams P-1024]. Basle, A. Petri, 1527.