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Lot 67

Josephus Flavius – Volume about Jerusalem, 1575 – Woodcuts

Egesippi, des hochberühmten fürtrefflichen christlichen Geschichtschreibers, fünff Bücher, vom jüdischen Krieg vnd endlicher Zerstörung der herzlichen vnd gewaltigen Statt Jerusalem [fifth book of the Jewish War by Josephus, Destruction of Jerusalem]. Theodosius Rihel? Strassburg?, [1575].
This volume is about the city of Jerusalem and includes 22 plates with woodcuts, portraying the last days of Jerusalem. [12], 214, [10] pp, 32.5 cm. 22 plates, good condition, spots and moth-marks, professionally restored, with handwritten comments in brown ink.