Los veynte libros de Flavio Josepho, de las Antiguedades Judaycas, y su vida por el mismo escripta, con otro libro suyo del imperio de la Razon, en el qual trata del martyrio de los Machabeos: todo nuevamente traduzido de Latin en romance Castellano

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS

printer

Martin Nucio

Place

Antwerp

Publication

1554

Description

Initial letters historiated. Printed in double columns.

summary

One surmises that it is no coincidence that this Spanish language edition of Josephus was printed in Antwerp about the same time that the huge influx of Marranos poured into the Lowlands. To such a readership, with its recent history of martyrdom at the hands of the Inquisition, a chronicle describing the martyrdom of the ancient Maccabees would be of immense appeal

ff. (9), 412. Slightly waterstained. Marginal worming. Last leaf laid to size. Marbled endpapers. Calf-backed marbled boards. Sm. folio

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