Des Hochberuehmten Jüdischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher. Translated by K. Lautenbach

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $700

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

author

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

printer

T. Rihel

Place

Strasbourg

Publication

1587

Description

Title in red and black within detailed historiated border. Printer’s device on last page. More than one hundred text woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer, all appear in very good impressions. ff.(6),524,(20). * BOUND WITH: Hegesippus. Füff Bücher: Vom Jüdischen Krieg. ff.(6),118,(5)

summary

The beautiful woodcuts, largely after C. van Sichem, belong “zu den schönsten Erzeugnissen der deutschen Formschneidekunst in der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts.” (Thieme-B. XXXII, 59)

Lightly stained and browned. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum, with clasps and hinges, front hinge repaired. Folio

Enquire about this lot