Opera. Complete works: Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish Wars, Against Apion, Maccabees.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $650

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author

JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS.

printer

P. de la Rouvière

Place

Geneva

Publication

1611

Description

Printer’s device on title. Greek and Latin face `a face. Historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces. From the Cassuto Collection.

references

Schreckenberg, Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (1968), p. 21.

pp. (8), 1102 (mispaginated but complete), (2 blank), 26. Foxed and lightly stained. Final leaves of Index a bit wormed, text very slightly affected. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments, pocked. Thick folio.

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