JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $12,000

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Josse Badius

Place

Paris

Publication

1511

Description

Aegesippi historiographi fidelissimi ac disertissimi et inter Christianos antiqvissimi historia De bello Ivdaico, sceptri svblatione, Ivdaeorvm dispersione, et Hierosolimitano excidio a Divo Ambrosio e Graeca Latina facta, cvm eivsdem anacephaleosi et tabellis congrventiarvm cvm Iosephi libris etiam De gestis Machabeorvm

references

Unrecorded edition (containing three additional leaves than the 1510 edition)

summary

Bound with: Josephus’s Que hoc volumine contineantur Josephi... vita... Antiquitatum libri viginiti. Contra Appionem grammaticum libri duo. De bello Iudaico libri septem. Paris, Nicolas du Pre for Poncet Le Preux, 1511. Printer’s device on title, white-on-black woodcut initials; Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des editions parisiennes du XVIe siecle, II, 1511/137)

Contemporary calf, clasps and hinges, expertly repaired. Folio

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