JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $850

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printer

Henricus Petri

Place

Basle

Publication

1559

Description

Iosippus de Bello Iudaico (Josephus. Wars of the Jews). Decalogue and commentary of Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra appended. Latin and Hebrew translation by the Christian Hebraist Sebastian Münster face-à-face. Reads right to left. Followed by selections from the Mishnaic tractate of Avoth (Ethics of the Fathers) (left to right). Hebrew with Yiddish and Latin translations.* Bound with: Thomas à Kempis.The Imitation of Christ (Cologne: Arnold Birckmann, 1564). pp. (6),196, (1). Latin text.

references

Prijs, Basle 105

pp. 342, (1), (96). Excellent condition. Elaborately blind-tooled vellum with family crest. 8vo

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