Opera Exegetica in libros Mosis, De Mundi opificio, historicos & legales. Edited by Sigismund Gelenius.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 255

PHILO JUDAEUS.

Opera Exegetica in libros Mosis, De Mundi opificio, historicos & legales. Edited by Sigismund Gelenius.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Text in Latin and Greek. Engraved title-page with mythological figures represented with grotesques. Elaborate head-pieces and tail piece and decorated initials. pp. (10), 904, (22). Occasional light dampstaining and trace marginal worming, title and final few leaves creased. Contemporary vellum, worn, upper joints cracked. Folio. Goodenough & Goodhart, The Politics of Philo of Judaeus - with Bibliography, no. 398.

Geneva: Petrus de la Rouiere 1613

Est: $750 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $800

Fascinating work by Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher of antiquity, in which he attempts to combine Hellenistic thought and Jewish traditions.