JOSEPHUS, Flavius (c.37-c.100). Opera , in Greek. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. 2° (325 x 220mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device on title and last leaf. (Occasional light browning, repaired tears touching the text on a1 and i6.) 19th-century vellum, gilt title on spine (some spotting), modern cloth box. Provenance : Beatae Maria di Biolio (early faded ownership inscription on title) -- Greek and Latin annotations.
JOSEPHUS, Flavius (c.37-c.100). Opera , in Greek. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. 2° (325 x 220mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device on title and last leaf. (Occasional light browning, repaired tears touching the text on a1 and i6.) 19th-century vellum, gilt title on spine (some spotting), modern cloth box. Provenance : Beatae Maria di Biolio (early faded ownership inscription on title) -- Greek and Latin annotations. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Josephus' works providing a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation to the end of the war with Rome (70 AD). This first edition in the original Greek derives from manuscripts owned by Diego Hurtado Mendoza (1503-75), the envoy of Charles V in Venice, and was edited by his librarian and humanist scholar Arlenius. Brunet 569; Adams J-351.
JOSEPHUS, Flavius (c.37-c.100). Opera , in Greek. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. 2° (325 x 220mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device on title and last leaf. (Occasional light browning, repaired tears touching the text on a1 and i6.) 19th-century vellum, gilt title on spine (some spotting), modern cloth box. Provenance : Beatae Maria di Biolio (early faded ownership inscription on title) -- Greek and Latin annotations.
JOSEPHUS, Flavius (c.37-c.100). Opera , in Greek. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. 2° (325 x 220mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device on title and last leaf. (Occasional light browning, repaired tears touching the text on a1 and i6.) 19th-century vellum, gilt title on spine (some spotting), modern cloth box. Provenance : Beatae Maria di Biolio (early faded ownership inscription on title) -- Greek and Latin annotations. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Josephus' works providing a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation to the end of the war with Rome (70 AD). This first edition in the original Greek derives from manuscripts owned by Diego Hurtado Mendoza (1503-75), the envoy of Charles V in Venice, and was edited by his librarian and humanist scholar Arlenius. Brunet 569; Adams J-351.
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