Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Josephus Flavius – Works – Latin – Cologne, 1524
Opening: $400
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Flavii Iosephi Hebraei, Historiographi clariss. opera, ad multorum codicum latinorum, eorundemque vetustissimorum fidem recognita & castigate, quorum catalogus est qui sequitur, Antiquitatum Iudaicarum…, De bello Iudaico…, Contra Appionem apologetic…. Cologne: Ceruicorni, 1524. Latin.
Volume containing a number of works by Josephus Flavius: "Antiquities of the Jews", "The Jewish War" and "Against Apion" ("Of the Antiquity of the Jews"). The volume also contains Erasmus of Rotterdam's translation of "4 Maccabees", a book once attributed to Flavius. The translation was published during Erasmus's lifetime, and this is its first edition.
On the title page is a frame made of woodcuts depicting scenes from Flavius's books.
[30], 347 leaves. 33 cm. Good condition. Some antique corrections in ink. Fine leather binding with gold decorations.
Volume containing a number of works by Josephus Flavius: "Antiquities of the Jews", "The Jewish War" and "Against Apion" ("Of the Antiquity of the Jews"). The volume also contains Erasmus of Rotterdam's translation of "4 Maccabees", a book once attributed to Flavius. The translation was published during Erasmus's lifetime, and this is its first edition.
On the title page is a frame made of woodcuts depicting scenes from Flavius's books.
[30], 347 leaves. 33 cm. Good condition. Some antique corrections in ink. Fine leather binding with gold decorations.