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FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

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Antwerp, C. van den Wouwere, 1564

Folio: [118] ff. (sm. hole in text of f. P2, last 2 ff. loose; fore edge cut a bit too short sometimes taking a few letters of printed marginalia, staining, some min. soiling and browning, 4 pinholes in blank inner margin throughout).

19th-c. quarter vellum, cardboard covers (top corner of frontcover gone), flat spine.

Very rare second edition (1st 1552) of the translation by Nicolaes van Winghe of "Bellum Judaicum", containing Flavius Josephus' autobiography. Woodcut title with arms of Antwerp and image of a besieged city, between architectural ornaments. In Gothic type.
Ref. BT 6098. - Pettegree (NB) 17268. - Not in STC Dutch (BL), Adams.
Bound with: Id. - Twintich boecken vanden ouden geschiedenissen der Jode[n]. Antwerp, J. Troyens, 1580. [1]-CCV [= 204] ff. (missing title, 1st 2 ff. sl. used and strengthened at edge(s), sm. burn hole at ff. Cc5-6; otherwise same condition as the other work). Very rare second edition (1st 1553) of the trsl. by van Winghe of "Antiquitates Judaeicae". In Gothic type. Ref. BT 1648, 8593. - STC Dutch (BL) 109. - Pettegree (NB) 17271-2. - Not in Adams.