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Title: 1590 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS ILLUSTRATED JEWISH HISTORY antique MASSIVE FOLIO JUDAICA

Description: Flavius Josephus
FLAVIJ JOSEPHI
des Hochberuhmten Judischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher
Von alten Judischen Geschichten.
Vom Judische Krieg.
Von der Juden alten Herkommen. Von Meisterschafft der Vernunft und der Machabeer Marter...
(Strassburg, c. 1590)
contains the 20 books of the "old Jewish stories" in a translation from Greek to German by Conrad Lautenbach (foreword dated 1574):
including chapter on life of Josephus, seven on the Jewish War; seven on the ancient Jewish customs against Apionem Grammaticum; two on the Mastery of Reason and the Martyrdom of Machabeus.
Size 8 3/4 by 13 inches
With woodcut title , printer's mark and 111 woodcuts in the text by T. Stimmer.
6 leaves, 524 leaves, 20 leaves
Bound with:
Hegesippus
Five books:
On the Jewish War and the final destruction of the ... city of Jerusalem.
Translated from Latin into German (by Conrad Lautenbach).
With woodcut title border and 21 text woodcuts by T. Stimmer
6 lvs., 118 lvs, 5 lvs.
Modern leather binding, spine with raised bands and title label, new endpapers
- VD 16, ZV 17562; Muller III, 550, 89; Goed. II, 319, 5. -
Probably the seventh Strasbourg edition of Lautenbach's translation, printed, as always, with the Hegesipp, which has no separate imprint.
Tobias Stimmer's beautiful woodcuts, mostly executed by C. van Sichem and St.'s brother Hans Christoffel, are "among the finest works of German form cutting in the second half of the 16th century" (Thieme-B. 32, 59).
- Browned, occasional stains.
Title finger-stained, with restored marginal tears, and mounted.
2nd leaf with restored tear in the margin.
Leaf 1 in the Hegesippus has ink stain,
Text in German
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1590 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS ILLUSTRATED JEWISH HISTORY antique MASSIVE FOLIO JUDAICA

Name: 1590 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS ILLUSTRATED JEWISH HISTORY antique MASSIVE FOLIO JUDAICA
SKU: 232778319
Price: 700 USD
Availability: InStock