Opera

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

printer

Froben

Place

Basle

Publication

1524

Description

Printer’s device on title and last page. Richly historiated initials. Wide margins. Old Latin marginalia

references

H. Schreckenberg, Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (1968), p. 7; Adams, J-356

summary

Includes Antiquitatum Judaicarum, Contra Appionem, and De Machabaeis.

pp. (58), 891, 888-907, (1) mispaginated but complete.) Some minor worming and underscoring (e.g. p.539). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over heavy wooden boards, lacking clasps and hinges. Thick folio

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